sure to be amazing! 🌺

I wrote “The Lake Will Wait”— which ended up being the first poem in the collection— while sitting through my Corporate Tax Law Class in law school.

“Birds Of”— the original title poem. In the end, Otherlight is a muccccch better title for this collection.

it’s me 😎// thrilled to be named a writer in residence for 2027// wurlitzerfoundation.org/emails/2025_ne…

fridge cigarette goes so hard

felt this one Allison Field Bell

New from Josephine Quarterly ✨✨✨✨ josephinequarterly.com/jill-mceldowney

Mind you this sent y’all into a frenzy

the king.

re: wuthering heights… y’all need to chill. aren’t there like 5 other adaptations we can watch if we don’t like this one?

Poetry allows one to think of EVERYTHING.

back in our happy place.

the poem. 💀

v cool to see literary journals return from hiatuses…

writing is humiliating but not writing is even worse so womp womp

nice email from a woman who purchased Julia Kolchinsky’s PARALLAX bc of my review…so maybe poetry reviews *do* still sell books? anyway here’s the review anotherchicagomagazine.net/2026/01/06/rev…