Selected nonfiction

Superstition Review: “Ouija Board: What We Ask of the Dead” Winter 2022, Online.

The Champagne Room: “Frankenstein’s Mother” Spring, 2022, Print.

Coal Hill Review: An excerpt from The War Requiem Winter 2020, Online.

Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog: “On Loving People I’ve Never Met” February 2020, Online.

The Briar Cliff Review: “Heavy Blessings” Spring 2015, Print.

AWP Intro Journals Project nominee for the essay “The Tulip Bulb Eaters” Fall 2013.

––Nominated by Benjamin Percy

Selected fiction

Instagram: “Phantom Ranch” Fall 2021.

A short story written with audience input over the course of October 2021. Each week leading up to Halloween, I released an installment of this horror story based on responses from questions I asked via “Story Polls.” I wanted to create a piece of art that welcomed others who many not necessarily consider themselves artists or writers into the process of creation.

The Drum: “Next Life” Issue 74, Winter 2019. 

Watershed Review: “Encounters” Fall 2018, Online.

Barely South Review: “The Deluded” Fall 2018, Print and Online.

Pleiades: “Dead Woman’s Pass” Summer 2017, Print.

Featured as a New Literary Discovery with Introduction by novelist Benjamin Percy.

Substack: with love from my kitchen table

Kaia sends out weekly email letters that you can sign up to receive directly to your inbox here. With Love From My Kitchen Table is a place for Kaia to muse, to digress, to share with you pieces of her heart and my brain. There will be parenting. There will be art. There will be baking and birds and books. There will be a little chaos and a lot of heart.