Aurelia was the resident artist at Glen Arbor Art Center in Glen Arbor, Michigan in May 2024. She was a finalist for the 2023 Loft-McKnight Award and is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has been published in many anthologies and journals, including The Kenyon Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and CALYX.

“50th Birthday Wishes for a Granddaughter to be Born in April” in Imagine, Vol. 2, August 2024

On writing “The Restoration”  North American Review 307.3 Fall 2022

Dog People The Journal, issue 44.4 Spring 2021

“The Restoration” in North American Review 305.2-3 Fall/Summer 2020

“Little Monsters” in Word Riot, July 2015

Puppetmaking The Common, Issue no. 10, Fall 2015
The Blue Bird  Literary Mama, July 2013
Sugar New Orleans Review, Volume 34 number 1

Someone I Wanted To Be

Published by Candlewick Press

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“A melancholy, memorable piece tackling shame, unkindness, poverty, and, finally, hope.“

– Kirkus Reviews