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del (she/he)

Del is a creative writing and linguistics undergrad at Syracuse University. Her poetry can be found compiled here and various other articles, essays, and prose pieces are lovingly located on substack.
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Syracuse , NY, United States

Selected work (13 publications)

bullshit lit, 2024
that time i greened out at a childhood best friend’s house while watching the shining i learned a lesson on a saturday night in the bed of somebody i don’t talk to anymore. the lights were a dance floor and the skin behind my skull trailed down my spine like arctic water. her heart was beating a song, and mine was beating a 128.
poetry
experimental
drug
fifth wheel press, 2024
i kneel at the dyke altaryears of touching the space where my heart sits, wayward, shriveled, and tracing my ribcage with the same fear of touching sin. now it feels as divine as bone and flesh can be. sin has a sweetness, has a way of welcoming no other does.
poetry
queer
religion
lesbian
catholic guilt
catholicism
lesbianism
lodestar lit, 2024
self-imposed whirlpoolthe inflammatory disease of the free spirit bottled; ship in a bottle i bother you the way growth disturbs the balance of the concrete
water
spires, 2024
first boyfriend you can probably guess by now that my first boyfriend wasn’t really my first boyfriend at all; more like the falcon’s first keeper a forest’s first fire.
sexual assault

Links

buy me a coffee
female sexuality in horror cinema Though just a few examples, horror as a genre presents many vivid narratives of women who are silenced through death or infamy for the crime of wanting more for themselves.

Services

$10/hour
editing/proofreadingformer content writer/editor with various publications and organizations. i do freelance work and am always happy to provide editing services for people who request it. generally best: academic, horror, LGBTQ+, sci-fi, poetry, essay more info @ link
editing
content editing
copy editing
manuscript editing
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