Published Work
FIRST BOOK Ghost in the Archive (2025) Winner of the Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize. Available for purchase through Conduit Press and Amazon. "These are taut, hungry poems. And they’re formally dazzling—punctuation disappears before your eyes, silences are recorded with magnitude and direction. Ghost in the Archive is a collection about Rachel Carson and history and queerness and nature and death and yearning so hard it buckles. It’s a book about here. It’s a book about you." – Kaveh Akbar "This researched, introspective, and brave collection will leave you wanting to dip back into the poems, like the oceans Carson loved, again and again." – Chet’la Sebree "I don't think I've ever read a group of poems so fundamentally animated by gratitude, the sense of having been given a gift. At one point I wrote that this is a book of love poems, but it's really a book of love, and a marvel of intimacy across time and space." –Bob Hicok Review of Ghost in the Archive and interview by Bleah Patterson, American Literary Review POEMS Grist: “How to Love the Natural Sciences” Swamp Pink: "Apophatic," "Infatuation," and "Pillar" Split Rock Review: “Why the Marine Biologist Was Not a Painter” Cimarron Review: “Jenn Loyd’s Fieldnotes from Heteronormativity” Best New Poets 2022 & Poet Lore: “I Want to Tell Rachel Carson about Centralia, PA and 24 HR Gas Stations” Shenandoah: “Remember, Body,” and “Epistles in Which Rachel Carson” The Rumpus: “I Want to Tell Rachel Carson about Rape Culture,” “Jenn Loyd Discovers That Nothing Bad Ever Happened at Rachel Carson’s Childhood Home,” and “Jenn Loyd Admits to Playing Pygmalion with the Archive" The Shore: "Rachel Carson: Juvenilia," "Some Mothers Are as Lighthouse to Ship," "Rachel Carson Leaves Springdale, PA, for the Sea," and "Rachel Carson: Genealogy" The Southern Review: “Rachel Carson’s Father Buys a Homestead” and “Rachel Carson at the Deathbed of Mary Scott Skinker” Natural Bridge: “Three Hotel Rooms” and “Proprioceptive” New South: “Sunday Light Filters” and “The Fall” PROSE Craig the Mag "On the Anniversary of Rachel Carson’s Death” West Branch: editor of poetry feature: "Ghosts in the Archive" Prairie Schooner: Book Review of Analicia Sotelo’s Virgin Prairie Margins: “Repetition for Emphasis” Creative Nonfiction: Tiny Truths Tweet Contest |