PAST PROJECTS
MAINLAND.
My second chapbook mainland. came out on June 18, 2021, featuring five prose-poems. I began writing it during the time that I was preparing to move cross-country for the third time in three years. It’s a conversation that I had with myself about what it truly means to be home. What is “home” in all of its facets? Is it a place? Is it a person? Is it merely a sense of stability—both inside and outside of yourself?
mainland. was digitally published via my website and made available for free upon release. (I was a bit sad that it wasn’t in print like my first chapbook, but I was excited for everyone to have the immediate opportunity to read it).
Photo courtesy of April Marble.
AN ODE TO THE SUNSHINE THROUGH MY BEDROOM WINDOW DURING SPRINGTIME
On April 13, 2019, I released my first chapbook called an ode to the sunshine through my bedroom window during springtime, featuring several prose-poems about spring, renewal, and rebirth. The first print-run sold out on April 27.
Seraphim by Erin Matson. © Erin Matson 2010.
ERIN MATSON ART CATALOG & ARCHIVE
Erin Matson (née Black) was a Beat artist based in the Catskills, New York. In June 2018, I was asked to come up to the Catskills to catalog Erin's entire lifetime of artwork, spanning over fifty years. Unfortunately, Erin passed away in July 2018. Before her passing, I ran her website, Facebook page, and Instagram showcasing her incredible artwork in addition to the cataloging project.
Me with Crooked Teeth’s first issue at the release party at the Art House Gallery and Cultural Center in Berkeley, California in July 2017.
CROOKED TEETH LITERARY MAGAZINE
Founded in April 2017, Crooked Teeth Literary Magazine set out to connect isolated literary communities and give artists a safe platform for self-expression during increasingly tumultuous socio-political times. Within months, the magazine rose to prominence in the up-and-coming literary publication world, getting submissions from around the world, from the Bay Area to New York, from London to Hong Kong. Crooked Teeth put out two incredible issues, Summer in the City and Winter in the City, before going on an (impolitely) unannounced hiatus in February 2018. The magazine continues to be on hold. (Print is expensive).
Me posing with Transfer Issue 115, the issue I designed.
TRANSFER MAGAZINE
San Francisco State University's undergraduate literary magazine, Transfer Magazine, is the longest running student-run publication in the country. I had the pleasure and honor of working on the magazine for three consecutive semesters, working on the fiction staff, then as a fiction editor, then as the managing editor.
Not For Nothing cover art, a vintage photograph of my grandfather in August 1959.
NOT FOR NOTHING BY CORI HARTWIG
Featuring ten original songs written when I was sixteen years old, I released Not For Nothing on April 29, 2016–three years after I finished writing the songs. With mellow melodies and vulnerable lyricism, Not For Nothing follows the ups and downs of a relationship and all of the emotions that come along with it.