This collection of poetry discusses a female adult reflecting on her survival of an adult reproductive cancer that she suffered as a child, as well as her reflection of her adult female body. She struggles with the ...

This thesis presents twenty-eight poems written during my time as an M.F.A. candidate at George Mason University. The three principle subjects are subjectivity, art, and translation. The order of presentation follows roughly ...

This thesis is comprised of narrative poems which focus on the author’s experiences at home and abroad. The sections are ordered anachronistically, each one taking place in one of three countries: the United States, ...

Fit for Home is a collection of poetry exploring the idea of home and house, literally and figuratively, and the house’s relationship to the self, memory, and experience.

The poems that appear in this thesis project explore the intersections between death, the body, the soul, and the physical landscape. By conflating these subjects upon one another, the speaker often speculates the about ...

Like Water is a dedication to women's and feminine experiences--social identifiers that are not always interchangeable. Much of the poetry in this collection focuses on medical trauma, discrimination, products of "health," ...

In these poems, I hope to capture the eddying nature of my relationship with the Adirondacks, where I grew up. It is a place whose wild lands are as unfamiliar to me as they are intimately known, and to whose woods I ...

To Heaven is an exploration of lineage, race, language, identity, America and love. Often lyric, the poems use imaginative language to find new meanings and new ways to think about being variously, historically, and ...