Interdisciplinary arts and sciences - Bothell
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The Last Of Our Days
This is an exploration of character and the depth of trauma. Sectioned into three parts to help guide the reader along, this book works to mess with the reader's expectations and perhaps toy with their heartstrings. It is ... -
The Myth of Intellectuality and Development: Exploiting the Feebleminded Subject in Discourses of American Philanthropy
This dissertation is a polyvocal archive that approaches developmental and intellectual disability as a category of historical analysis, with a central focus on comparing how U.S. charity and philanthropy discourses have ... -
The Panther
The Panther is a work of short fiction set in the Florida Everglades that explores the tale of a family-run hotel and casino capitalizing off a tragedy that occurred within the establishment years prior by transforming it ... -
Mist Manifesto & The Burlesque Genre: Ephemorality in a World Full of Pinochet Plushies
Set in a post-apocalyptic marsh where a strange, bright mist consumes the town of Ahpisaw and stops time, Mogyype, a grieving widower, struggles to keep a hold on reality when he sees his dead wife in the blinding mist. ... -
Transmissions from the Mermaid Palace
Employing elements of autofiction, place-based field recordings, and local lore and legend from historical archives, Transmissions from the Mermaid Palace seeks a bridge out of the graveyard left by the opioid crisis, a ... -
Beyond the Curtain
Beyond the Curtain is a work of hybrid autofiction that explores the facets of performance through dance in the studio and stage, as well as in everyday life. The speaker in the work navigates how her identity is shaped ... -
Veiled Street
"Veiled Street" is a heartfelt exploration of the creative process, delving into the artist's struggle and the connection between personal experiences, subconscious explorations, and artistic creation. The novella follows ... -
Studio 9
Blackness is not a performance, and yet a performance has been demanded. In Studio 9, Hazey has been corrupted by faux intimacy and the burden of observation as the talk show host of a national TV show. The various ... -
Anti-Parietal Epithalamus
Anti-Parietal Epithalamus is a hybrid work of speculative fiction and visual art, a non-linear story that follows characters into a dystopic alternative future of 4023. In response to a time-space anomaly that has rendered ... -
The Carolyne Project: A Speculative Experiment of Narrative Structure
The Carolyne Project is an in-progress exploration of different narrative structural shapes, moving away from the most common form in English literature: the wave or rollercoaster. Set in a post-climate cyberpunk landscape, ... -
It’s Still You
This thesis is a metafictional collection of art and words created by the author between the ages of twelve to eighteen, and edited as a novel documenting roughly seven year’s worth of self-reflection and growth. Diary ... -
Sabotage of the Sunflowers
Sabotage of the Sunflowers is a creative collection of writings inspired by my family’s immigration from Cuba to the United States. These stories come from memories, retellings, interviews, and my own imagination. They ... -
PLEASE: A Chapbook and Video
PLEASE is a poetry chapbook and video which make use of rhythm, rhyme, and musicality to explore recurring themes and motifs in the life of the narrator; a modern twenty-four-year-old in the midst of a quarter-life crisis. ... -
Life Could Be What It Is Right Now
Intimacy is at the center of my poetics. My thesis is the journey of my speaker leaning into the intimacy that art and writing provides in order to accept the gift of darkness. Although a lot of the content in my collection ... -
Suspension
This collection explores the theme of “Suspension:” coming of age, dealing with tragedy, and searching for meaning in the post-pandemic world; a world that becomes increasingly demanding of personal sacrifice and the ... -
Japanese Blood in the Heart of the Gothic: An Anthology of Gothic Stories from the Japanese Diaspora
Japanese Blood in the Heart of the Gothic is a fictional anthology of Gothic short stories from across the Japanese diaspora. Though the authors are fictional, they represent real Japanese communities outside of Japan and ... -
Beginners, or The First Voyage of Discovery
Set in the swells of history, Beginners tells the story of Ellipsis, three dots with nothing to do. A visit from The Universe prompts Ellipsis to return to work on her island. She needs men–and God is sent to help. What ... -
What Blooms in the Dark
This manuscript was born underground. Following an obsession with roots and soil, these poems appeared one by one—as if pushing up from single seeds, surrounded in dampness. This collection of poetry is one that dives into ... -
6-foot pine: life and romance in the chrondemic age
6-foot pine: life and romance in the chrondemic age is a hybrid work of speculative fiction that interrogates attraction and connection in a near-future time of chronic pandemics while under the persistent choking ravages ... -
Dutch Boats
It began with a painting, a painting of a boat with waves that rolled off the canvas and over my body and carried me backwards in time. I washed ashore on the riverbanks of a small town in 1840s Netherlands, where one ...