What if Lilith fell in love with Eve in the Garden of Eden?

Self-Portrait as the Book of Genesis

A poem about my decade-long struggle with chronic headaches and migraines, especially about my struggles understanding myself in relation to my illness.

i tried to write a poem about my body. my body wrote a poem about me.

Ophelia's madness scene, remixed & subverted. I wanted to transform a scene of female despair into queer feminine joy.

desdemona kisses ophelia behind the bleachers at senior prom

the times after the after times

My piece in the second Bullshit Lit anthology--when God finally decides to take a vacation, he calls up St. Christopher to help him arrange things. But unfortunately for Christopher, God isn't exactly the easiest client to work with.

St. Christopher Takes a Call

Challenging the idea that a fast writer = a good writer. Why I enjoy slow drafting and the lessons I've learned from it.

The Joys of Slow Drafting

Speculative, semi-apocalyptic climate and political poem.

Buried Gospel

Personal essay discussing my journey developing confidence in my queerness.

On Developing Queer Confidence

Analyzing narrative techniques and the themes of time, memory, and loss in The Ruin, an Old English elegy. Written in an accessible way for anyone interested in literature or the humanities—no expertise in Medieval lit required!

When Everything Ends, What Comes After?: Narration, Time, and Memory in The Ruin

What I’ve learned from my first year submitting my work, including the importance of community, how to define “success” for yourself, realistic expectations in indie lit, and staying centered in the joy of writing.

3 Lessons From My First Year of Submitting to Lit Mags

Hybrid piece about family dinner conversations and how easily we can become inured to suffering. A little bit flash fic, a little bit prose poem, a little bit script.

Family Dinner

I'm mad at god and the government so I wrote a 5-part poem about it.

New Year Same Shit.

Poem about being in love when you resent being in love.

Love Poem as Hate Poem as Love Poem

Prose poem about body image--not body positivity, but body ambivalence. 

Self-Portrait in Pieces

Flash CNF piece about being in love when you're a totally non-sentimenal, non-romantic person who hates being in love.

Another Stupid Love Story

Second-person, form-funky poem about ContraPoints, parasocial relationships, and the video game Superliminal.

that's so liminal

Second-person, five-part prose poem about the power of capitalists to manipulate the world and crush workers who resist. You know, fun stuff. I hope that in the aftermath of recent mass unionizations and strikes, this piece will become less relevant.

Eleanor Ball

Selected work