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pamphlet
The Queen of Cups & Other Poems, SPAM, 2022

zines
Leatherdyke Love Letters with DykeHouse Press, 2026
Dyke Rage with DykeHouse Press, 2024
Dyke Magic with DykeHouse Press, 2023
Dyke Love with DykeHouse Press, 2023

poems
'No, it's not a gift', Hospitality Playbook, Sleepy Press, 2026 (upcoming!)
poems in Unwanted Words' Queer & Feminist Poetry Anthology, june 2026 (upcoming!)
2 poems in World Dreem #2, sincere corkscrew, july 2026 (upcoming!)

'Black Leather with Paisley Hankies,' Leatherdyke Love Letters, DykeHouse Press, 2026
'Ache!', Letters of No, Sleepy Press, 2025
'Butch/Battery/Electric: Into the Hole!', SPAM Plaza, 2025.
'medical tourism,' Dyke Rage, DykeHouse Press, 2024
'the last real bulldagger in america', Powders (5), 2023
'Wertheimpark,' Dyke Love, DykeHouse Press, 2023
'a crowd of butch women all at ease with each other,' Dyke Love, DykeHouse Press, 2023
'Winter lovin'', Gutter, 2022

prose
'Pulp' for Woman Wood #4, 2026
'Musicians' for The Ghost Project, 2024
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 articles
  'Please show me the way to the next ephemeral dyke bar: On queer utopian longing', Soapbox 6.0: On the Uses of Absence, 2025
  'In the light of the sphinxes: lesbian cruising in Amsterdam', Connecting the Dots, Amsterdam Dyke March, 2024 (part translation)
  '"What is memory? What makes a body glow": Deafness, exile and contrapuntal awareness in Ilya Kaminsky's Dancing in Odessa and Deaf Republic, SoapBox, 2023
  '"Whenever I make a film, I want it to have an alienating aspect": Interview with Elko van Raemdonck,' Different Class, 2022
  'Reflecting light and blurring boundaries with gemstones: Interview with Lingjie Wang and Mara Balode,' Different Class, 2022

translations/vertalingen
'force' by Rodante van der Waal, 2026 (NL→EN) (upcoming!)
Maarten van der Graaff for Perdu, 2025 (NL→EN)
jimmy cooper voor de internet gids, 2024 (EN→NL)
'De Moord op Indira Gandhi', Upamanyu Chatterjee, voor Liter (Acedia), 2024 (EN→NL)
Porsha Olayiwola voor Poetry International, 2023 (EN→NL)
'Shepherd', Lot, Bryan Washington. Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 2022 (EN→NL)

readings
19.04.2026 at House Arts Collective, Glasgow, 6.30pm
25.04.2026 Like Minds at Typewronger, Edinburgh, 8pm
16.05.2026 Symposium Poëtica at Perdu, Amsterdam
20.06.2026 Queer Poetics of Trust, artist talk, at Billytown, The Hague

24.03.2026 Leatherdyke Love Letters launch at Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum, Amsterdam
06.03.2026 Leatherdyke Love Letters launch at Category Is Books, Glasgow
2025 • Letters of No launch at San Serriffe, Amsterdam  /  Electric Bodies at Amsterdam Bangs Festival, at OT301  /  A.F.K. #4 (Away From Keyboard) at The Doublet, with SPAM Press, Glasgow  /  Dichters in de Prinsentuin, Groningen  /  Soapbox 6.0 Launch, 'On Absence', Amsterdam  /  SWEAT IT OUT, Badhus Sauna, Amsterdam  /  Female Rage, Labyrinth Poetry Bar, Amsterdam  /  Dichtersmarathon, Perdu, Amsterdam 
2024
 • Poetry Trapper Keeper's Love Language, Labyrinth Poetry Bar, Amsterdam  /  love at the end of the world / the world at the end of love, Plein Theater, Amsterdam  /  Unwanted Words' Poeting Queer History, Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam  /  BookFringe: SPAM Presents at TypeWronger, Edinburgh 2023 • Amsterdam Women & Pride, Parool Theater 2019-22 • Hysteria, Aberdeen, a few times between 2019 and 2022

grants received
2026 Trutfonds Grant for Leatherdyke Love Letters zine with DykeHouse Press  • 2023 Subsidie Culturele Makers Gemeente Haarlem: grafiekproject Frans Masereel Centrum • Subsidie Cultuurfonds: grafiekproject Frans Masereel Cerntrum  • 2022 Nederlands Letterenfonds: ontwikkelbeurs literaire vertalers

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