Forever, Becomes

Completed. Full-length. Currently seeking publication.

Poems accepted ahead of publication:  

“Parade,” “Attractions and Departures,” and “Winter Butterfly” The Gasconade Literary Review: No One Sees the Irony. August 2024.

Ground Effect

Working full-length poetry manuscript. Currently seeking publication.

Poems accepted ahead of publication:

“Return, Body,” “Escape Artist,” and “Awake.” 15th Annual – Voices Anthology: Skyscrapers, Dolphins & Evolution. Cold River Press. 2026.

Clementine

Chapbook

By Pilar Graham and Michelle Patton

A dialogical correspondence between two poets. Completed. Currently seeking publication.

Burn Scars

Creative Nonfiction Essays. Completed. Currently seeking publication.

Essays accepted ahead of publication:

“Control Burn.” Voices Anthology. Cold River Press. May 2025. 

A full-length collection of creative nonfiction essays that push against the hardscape and how to live with the burn scars left behind by the California wildfires, both physically and emotionally.

Thematic motifs include being a caregiver, loss, survivor’s guilt and grief, while living a dual existence near the southern Yosemite National Park and Monterey Bay, California–amongst the backdrop of a pandemic and wildfire evacuations.