Novels
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THE HOUSE OF ERZULIE
2018, Shade Mountain Press Audiobook | 2019, Highbridge Audio Editors' Choice: Historical Novels Review The Center for Trauma & Resilience Inclusiveness Book Club 
Cover photography: Alanna Airitam
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ICE SONG (Book One)
2009, Del Rey/Random House Best Adult Books for High Schoolers: School Library Journal | Best Published Science-Fiction/Fantasy: San Diego Book Awards 
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Short Fiction, Essays & Poems
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"Free to Good Home" The Baltimore Review
"Brain in a Jar & Other Stories" New Short Fiction Series "Black Sun" Drunk Monkeys "A Snail Without its Shell is a Slug" Art & Letters “Best Served Cold,” Hunger: A Feast of Sensual Tales about Sex & Gastronomy (Sizzler Editions, 2013) "Eat, Drink, and Be Wary: Autosarcophagy and Autoerotism in Body Horror Cinema" The Body Horror Book (Oscillate Wildly Press) "Kirsten Imani Kasai’s essay ... draws parallels between female self-mutilation, plastic surgery, and self-cannibalism, then recontextualizes them as assertions of feminist agency. THE NARRATORS SAN DIEGO Ep. 106: “Karmic Justice” podcast The Naked Truth about Middle-Aged Womanhood in America "Hereditary: Confronting the Good Mother" "To Be Young, Biracial And Absolutely Not A Tragic Mulatta" AOL Black Voices "Writing a Better Ending: How Feminist Utopian Literature Subverts Patriarchy," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Inc. "The Walking Dead: HIV/AIDS and the Changing Face of Zombies in Literature" "Redefining Utopia: How Feminist Utopian Literature Can Serve as a Model for Creating Workable Futures" (2014 winner Antioch University Los Angeles Library Research Award) "Bringing the Arts into the Creative Writing Classroom: A Tangible Approach to Teaching Narrative Structure" "Drowning by the Wolf Moon's Light" Suvudu.com "Edgar Allen Poe Complete Tales and Poems" Annotation Nation "The Confessions of an English Opium Eater" Annotation Nation "Trine," Transition Magazine #129: Truth and Trope "tiny poetics," "by degrees: first, second, third," "i loathe your neighborhood" San Diego Reader "i loathe your neighborhood," "an answer to last night's question" & "'tis only fitting" Rat's Ass Review Love & Ensuing Madness "The Whole Neighborhood Knew I Had a Baby That Day" & "reliquary" In-Flight Literary Magazine #5 "clockworks: rusted, spoiled" Extract(s) "mixed metaphors: you & i," "ssri" In-Flight Literary Magazine #4 "ssri" Ultraviolet Tribe "process aestivation" Tattooed Poets blog "thirst" "Me Myself I" Pretty Owl Poetry "Fiction is My Refuge" UnboundWorlds.com & Facebook.com/Hedgebrook for #NationalPoetryMonth |