Lionfish (digital)

28 pages (26 poems, 12 illustrations)
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Set in Queens in the summer of 2021, Lionfish (2024) is the fantastic tale of a reunion and eventual romance between an Astoria health worker and his childhood friend, a sea monster who can take a human shape for brief periods on land. Through the summer, their story brings them into contact with human and non-human life along the waterfront in Astoria, Long Island City, and Jamaica Bay — communities whose fates are bound together in the environmental past, present, and future.

This project was made possible in part with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts.