In 2010, PANK Magazine was the first literary journal I ever submitted to. Seven years later, I am damn excited to say my story, “I Dream of Jeannie,”* is on their homepage (direct link here)! And damn thankful this writerly dream has become reality.
*tw sexual violence
I’m so excited to share that one of my short-short stories from a series de/recontextualizing “icons” of masculinity, “John Wayne Learns He Is a Woman in Barcelona,” was recently published in Issue 9 of the Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly! In it, I hope to investigate constructions of whiteness and masculinity, and how narratives of imperialism and power reify these constructions.
For kaylamillerwrites.com‘s first-ever #ThrowbackThursday, I present my final reading as an MFA student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas: an excerpt from my novel (my then-thesis). <3 <3 <3
Back in February, I was part of the opening line-up for the 2nd Biannual Jim Rogers Contrarian Lecture hosted by Black Mountain Institute (BMI), a literary nonprofit in Las Vegas. Each of the openers were tasked with presenting a two-minute “micro” contrarian lecture.
BMI’s website recently uploaded video from the event. Unfortunately, the video’s settings don’t allow me to embed it, but ya girl comes on at 14:25.
My contrarian micro essay, “On Gratitude,” (briefly!) discusses queer visibility in a capitalist culture.
I’m stoked to post that “Royal” has found its home at The Woven Tale Press!
With this, my first fairy tale, I hope to discuss cultural and capitalistic premiums placed on whiteness and power. The issue (Vol. V #3) is live and free to read online with a subscription!
Up now on Profane and embedded below because technology is cool!
Stoked to have my first piece in DTLV, a review of five downtown Las Vegas date-night finds.
Set the mood, y’all.
It’s dangerous.
Unpopular opinion: Fun Home, the off-Broadway Tony award-winning hit based on the graphic novel by MacArthur genius grant recipient Alison Bechdel, commits harmful erasures.
This is a belated posting, but my review of Fun Home explores the ways silence and ignorance reify oppressive social structures.
*TW sexual violence, pedophilia
Y’all, I’m stoked to have a reason to add an Events page to this author site! It currently includes two upcoming readings:
If you’re in my neck of the woods at these times, come say hey! Let’s get a drink and talk about stories. <3
Full details can be found here!
Never enough horror! Me at Can’t Look Away: The Lure of Horror Film, an exhibit at the Experience Music Project Museum in Seattle, Washington (October 2016)
My first-ever food review is published in December 2016’s “Off the Ranch” column in Downtown Zen magazine! I went to Sweets Raku and regret nothing.
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