As a longtime member of the indie lit scene, I’ve been publishing my poetry, short fiction, and essays in print and digital journals and anthologies since 2010.

Most of my creative writing has been published under my pen name, Kia Alice, with a few select works published under Celeste Mott.

If you’d like to keep up with my self-published essays and short fiction, please check out my Substack. 

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Book cover titled 'Lucid: A Micro Memoir' featuring a watercolor painting of a house with a porch, gabled roof, and decorative details.

Lucid: a Micro Memoir

Porkbelly Press, 2020

Anthologies & Print Journals:

Essay forthcoming in The Rebis: The Moon - Fall 2026

Two Poems in The Alien Buddha’s Arcane Magick - 2025

Haunting the Dream House in Sublimation: We Are Monsters All - 2024

Tulpa Through the Looking Glass in The Feminine Macabre Issue 1 - 2021

Work appears in Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry - Fremantle Press, 2017

Work appears in Westerly 60:1 - 2016

Work appears in Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry - Hunter, 2016

You’re Standing On My Tail - in Going Down Swinging: 35, 2013

Poems appear in Curbside Splendor: Issue 3, 2012

The Hunting Room in Midnight Echo: Issue 7, The Australian Horror Writers’ Association, 2012

Poetry & Slipstream Work

3 Poems, Cul-de-Sac of Blood - 2025

How to Write a Poem Without Writing a Poem, Maudlin House, 2020

3 Poems, Dream Pop Press - 2018

Alice Sometimes, TJ Eckleberg Review - 2017

Alice at Last, Australia Book Review - States of Poetry 2016

The Other Girls Fall Through Me, Sundress Press’ Curious Specimens - 2015

Be Were, Overland Literary Journal - Runner-up Judith Wright Poetry Prize 2015

Ten Step Tulpamancy, Birdfeast - 2015

Double Feature, Permafrost 37.2 - 2015

3 Poems, Cordite - various years 

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Essays & Articles

I Spent a Decade in Love With a Vampire On the Internet, default.blog - 2026

So You Married a Supervillain, The Mary Sue - 2015

Review: The House on Pine Street, The Mary Sue - 2015

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Featured Articles

I write about the strange and magical, folklore, occult history, pop culture, and internet culture weirdness.

I Spent a Decade in Love with a Vampire On the Internet - Roleplaying on the Y2K Internet

Guest blogging for Katherine Dee of default.blog about losing yourself in the Y2K internet and getting vampirized by middle-aged ladies.

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Witch Queen Alice: Equinox Psychopomps and Witching Rabbits

Exploring the Alice in Wonderland story through the lens of Easter folklore and witchcraft trial testimony. 

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Is Witchcraft Safe? The Love and Light Philosophy Infecting the Craft

On the necessary danger of true witchcraft, and the spiritual bypassing of love and light philosophies.

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