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Poetry

• 2019 chapbook, How to Look Worse and Feel Ordinary: Antipoems for Modernity

• “State of the Uterine” Honorable Mention in the 2019 Winning Writers Wergle Flomp Poetry Contest

• “infinity ii” featured in Gypsophila, V2: Issue 3 - the white, November 2022

• “the crisis iii” online and “infinity iii” and “3” in the print of Empyrean Literary Magazine, Vol. 1.4

• “mother spiaggia” in New Note Poetry, Winter 2022

• “ocularity” in The Uncoiled, Issue No. 4

• “fischio” and “tonic” in Issue 01 of Curio Cabinet

• “american abroad” in The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press

Academic Works

• MA Philosophy Thesis, Sofia University, Phenomenology for the Digital Age: A Levinasian Approach to the Hyperconnected Human Experience

• MA Egyptology, University of Manchester, Concepts of Self in Late Period Egypt and Relatedness to Post-Socratic Philosophy

Essays

• “Caffè Napoletana” in Standart Mag, Issue No. 34: Risks, temperance, and coffee and in Standart Mag Japan

• “Reimagining Robusta” in Standart Mag, Issue No. 21 and Standart Mag Japan Issue No. 15 “Lights - Embrace - Coffee”