True Crime: Ruby Franke-cults, narcissistic moms, social media, and toxic family systems

Ruby Franke, a popular vlogger who ran a YouTube account on parenting that amassed billions of views, has been sentenced, alongside her business partner, Jodi Hildebrandt, for child abuse charges: they both pled guilty and received 4 to 30 years in prison.

Her daughter who called CPS to uncover the horrific child torture happening in the home of the social media influencer is releasing a memoir about her trauma in January 2025. She's stated that she doesn't think her mother will ever fully comprehend what she's done. She hopes she'll find help someday.

As the scapegoat child of two parents with Antisocial Personality Disorder (I have Borderline Personality Disorder as a result), I carefully watch cases like these, despite how much pain they trigger from my own childhood. I can relate to her daughters feelings: I have come to the conclusion that narcissists are usually far too deep in denial and lacking in empathy to ever understand the gravity of their actions, and they seem especially avoidant around the subject of the damage they do to their own children. They'll cling to victim blaming their kids lifelong and deny that their actions caused damage through trauma.

In many ways, Ruby Franke was so much like my mother in her haughty, know-it-all, cruel, authoritarian arrogance in her YouTube videos that it only took me seeing one clip to know that she was a narcissist, most likely a sociopath, who was using her children to exploit them for money, attention, and supply in the form of praise and popularity.

Sometimes, it kind of stuns me how it’s not obvious to others, how MILLIONS of people sought her advice on parenting.

But then, I understand that many of those viewers had NPD or ASPD themselves, who often seek ways to feel not only justified in their abusive behavior, but morally and spiritually superior for it.

It’s the same reason my parents flocked to white supremacist rhetoric: it simply feeds the narcissistic delusion of both supremacy and victimhood.

Her popularity should be evidence of how many more Ruby Frankes there are in the world who aren’t getting caught…

In reading the horrific details of her crimes, I’m also struck by the differences in my own childhood with parents afflicted with NPD/ASPD.

I was regularly accused of evil or of being influenced by the devil, just as Franke believed about her own children, and I endured a lot of violence, social isolation, humiliation, and even death of pets; however, Franke’s crimes are much more extreme and obscene than what I experienced.

In her journals, she documented attempted drownings, waterboarding, and starvation. She describes their trauma chillingly and matter of factually, as the children wet themselves or respond to violence with despondence or disassociation, more evidence to Franke that her children were demonic.

This is one of the largest mysteries to me about ASPD: what defines their limits?

Why do some ASPD parents go to more sadistic extremes than others? And what’s the catalyst that causes them to kill?

I always felt it was possible my mother could kill me: she genuinely threatened it and sometimes seemed as if she was coming close to doing so, like when choking me. She often made me watch movies or documentaries about women who killed their kids as a warning.

But, for some reason, she never did, and I’m not sure what separated her from the fates I see in so many other mothers afflicted with ASPD.

The same is true for my stalker and rapist who drugged me for three weeks. Though he did attempt to kill me and at one point even pondered killing me with a knife, for some reason, he didn’t.

I read stories of people who endured what I did often to make sense of my trauma, and still, I wonder why I survived or why the sadism was less extreme for this particular sociopath.

Why are some sociopaths content with rape while some go as far as murder or cannibalism?

One thing I’ve discovered is that whatever abuse they received in childhood as the golden child, they will then re-enact onto their own children as a means to remedy their grief over it by projecting the shame into their children and having control in the situation of abuse.

Often, the extremes an ASPD will go to is simply a reflection of what their own childhood wounds are.

Still, what generational trauma haunts THEIR family tree to get them to a place of such sadistic evil?

For Ruby Franke, Mormonism and religious extremism is undoubtedly a factor.

All religions and spiritual traditions have the potential to be a cult: a simple glance over the history of the Catholic church and their abuses — from genocide of native Americans to covering up pedophile priests — showcases that sociopaths always pursue faith based organizations, and they often corrupt them and traumatize good people and children within them.

Mormonism has its own sordid history of secret abuses and crimes — from polyamory to the underage marriage of girls.

The history of Mormonism is the story of a charismatic sociopath who was able to convince other sick people of absolute HOGWASH.

Joseph Smith Jr.’s name alone reveals the narcissism he comes from: the mark of a golden child — or a next generation sociopath in the family — is that they’re named after their narcissistic parent, who thinks their own name is the best name to bestow upon anyone in the world: the name of a god, a perfect person.

The fact that people do that as tradition is reflection of pathological narcissism within a culture. (The ego and self obsession you must have to name a kid after yourself is hard for me to understand: it is such a clear sign that you’re denying their own separate personhood at birth).

Sociopaths tend to believe in their goodness in utter delusion: they commit the most horrific and extreme abuses, they know exactly what abuses they commit because they know enough to hide them, and yet, they GENUINELY believe in their own sainthood.

Ruby Franke didn’t only believe in her sainthood: she believed that she, like her business partner, were CHOSEN to fight evil.

And that evil…WAS IN HER KIDS, who she calls “spawns of Satan” in her journals.

What narcissists accuse of others is projection, so it’s their denied confession. Ruby Franke is the spawn of Satan.

Generally, people who talk obsessively about evil (rather than recognizing mental health) are waving red flags. All sociopaths use these split thinking terms of pure good and pure evil, and they’re terrified and obsessed with evil, which is ironic because they do evil acts.

But they tend to think of themselves as Batman. They do bad things and break laws but ONLY TO BAD PEOPLE.

This also echoes another Mormon who was recently in the news for murdering her own children: Lori Vallow.

She along with her new boyfriend, who she believes to be a prophet, were convinced that her children were “zombies” and “dark spirits.” And they had to kill them because they were the prophets chosen to do God’s work before the second coming.

It sounds batty to many of us, but this man had a lot of followers as well.

Without a doubt, many of those followers were other sociopaths.

Sociopaths love a charsimatic leader.

And cults are actually much more socially prevalent than we even admit, especially if you examine the cult-like traits of political parties, and the sociopathic horrors that large groups enact without remorse (Think Nazis).

Pathological mental illness in an individual looks like a disorder, but in a group of people, it looks like a culture: our culture reflects the ways people are damaged.

Sociopaths love cults for many reasons: for one, their golden child status expired some time in early childhood, and their parent — the God who they crafted their whole identity off of — left them, either emotionally or physically — and introduced shame and abuse to them.

They were then alternated between spoiling and abuse, which caused the disorder of NPD due to suicidal collapses in early childhood, emotional stunting, and frontal lobe damage from extreme cognitive dissosance.

Scapegoat and Invisible children also get disorders — BPD and HPD — but those disorders don’t prohibit empathy or a unique sense of self from developing. Neither the scapegoat or the invisible child had their parents’ identity impressed upon them, so they developed a unique self, though they likely have horrible self worth and insecurities.

And neither of these children have to experience the constant cognitive dissonance of their roles with the parent changing back and forth — scapegoats are ALWAYS all bad to the parent. Invisibles are ALWAYS invisible.

NPD parents do manipulate and provide breadcrumbs and needs for these children, so the children can be easier controlled with the thought that they may earn love and attention, but the child eventually learns that the goalposts always move, and they never attain love or empathy, though they may stay in denial and achingly love their parents and try to help them or make them proud for decades in adulthood.

Those of us with attachment issues often struggle to detach from our toxic roots.

Narcissists love cults for the following reasons:

• They want a sense of family and belonging
• They want to believe in a “benevolent parent” through a charismatic leader who they can mirror
• They want to attain leadership in the cult and have control, power, and attention
• The cults often peddle both supremacist thinking (we are the best in the world) and fear (anyone different is the enemy)
• Cults tend to dress alike — this solves the narcissist’s sense of having no unique identity. Narcissists crave conformity and envy difference. They often feel agitated by people who buck trends or social norms.
• Cults operate on ideas of moral superiority and perfection (and often being especially favored by God) which appeals to the pathology of narcissism.
• The reputations of cults — be it a church or a political group — often allow their crimes to go totally unchecked due to split thinking that some groups are all good. Who would suspect A COP? Who would suspect A MORMON? Who would suspect A DEMOCRAT? This is precisely why sociopaths are all over those groups. Because people have already been brainwashed to think they can do no wrong and are better than them.
• With cults, narcissists delude themselves to be not only close to God, but empowered with Godlike or prophetic traits. Whatever abusive thing they feel compelled to do, they do so as a warrior for God and with God’s approval. They believe in the strictest and most extreme forms of authoritarian punishment. They can say, “God is on our side for this genocide” or “God told me that I should marry many young girls and he will give me a planet when I die that I can be God of for my family.”

And yeah….they believe all that mess.

This is why NPD and ASPD are said to be disorders of both denial and delusion.

I had two primary questions in looking at the Ruby Franke case:

1. How much is her husband responsible?
2. Was she genuine in her remorse at sentencing?

Franke’s remorse, which included tears, was an extraordinarily rare admission for a person with ASPD.

I’ve known many pwASPD intimately and I almost never saw anything like that except when they were in collapse states.

One pwASPD who stands out as extraordinarily honest about his crimes at sentencing was Jeffrey Dahmer, who hung his head stoically in shame through his whole trial, and read a statement in which he took full accountability. He said that he always knew himself to be either “evil or sick” and he “created a Holocaust.” He wanted to be in prison: his last words when he was murdered were that he wanted to die.

In general, pwASPD are firmer in their delusions and they will double down on them, truly believing themselves victims. Vallow, at her sentencing, tried to suggest her children killed and buried themselves and that God was always on her side.

I feel somewhat relieved when I watch Dahmer’s statement. As someone who’s been drugged and sexually assaulted by someone who was a stone’s throw from Dahmer, there was this huge weight lifted just to hear a pwASPD admit that they did something wrong.

Accountability means everything when you’ve been attacked by a malignant narcissist. The response is normally victim blaming.

Therefore, the things Ruby Franke said actually made me cry. I can never, in my wildest imagination, imagine my own mother apologizing to me this way:

“I was in a deep undercurrent that led us to danger. I would never have led you to darkness knowingly — I was so disoriented that I believed dark was light and right was wrong. I would do anything in this world for you. My willingness to sacrifice all for you was masterfully manipulated into something very ugly. I took from you all that was soft, and safe, and good. I took from you, your mother. How terrifying this must have been for you.”

This statement strikes me because it’s absolutely true — later, she even admits to brainwashing.

I watch Ruby Franke and think: Is it a miracle? Did she really wake up from the delusion? Is she truly remorseful? Is it possible?

And if it is…why didn’t the pwASPD who tortured, terrorized, stalked, raped, and nearly killed me ever feel compelled to admit and apologize their wrongdoings to me?

Both my parents and my stalker have been entangled with the law and with CPS. But they never came to any kind of epiphanies of accountability or spiritual awakening. In their minds, I always deserved it.

Part of me thought it had to be manipulation, but the part of me that is still grieving over the things that were done to me wanted Franke’s remorse to be real.

I found my answers, and more, in doing more digging on this case.

Some details that illuminate the truth of Ruby Franke’s family and her remorse:

1) Her husband’s reputation and involvement

It was determined in interrogation that Franke’s husband had no knowledge of abuse, as he’d been separated from her for over a year. She was living with her business partner, Jodi. He attested that he felt she was brainwashed by Jodi and that Jodi isolated them and ruined their marriage. He seemed in shock over his children’s physical state.

I IMMEDIATELY SIDE EYED THIS MAN.

For one, it is pretty unusual for a sociopath to NOT marry another sociopath.

It does happen — I married one as a borderline (other than other ASPDs, they attract to other cluster b’s. We attract to what feels like family).

However, the problem with a pwASPD not marrying another sociopath is because it’s absolutely exhausting for them to maintain their masks full time.

In the home, they need people they can be wildly toxic with.

They need drama, chaos, full out fist fights, cheating, triangulation, the whole nine yards.

What happens when a sociopath doesn’t marry another sociopath is generally that…their mask slips and they get caught.

And, as it does, the partner CANNOT cosign their behavior.

For me, getting a puppy showed me that I could never parent with my narcissist husband. No matter what I tried to teach him about behavioral psychology and animal training, he still believed that beating and abusing the dog was the best method, while I saw him as traumatizing the animal and he offended my morality doing so.

So, when it comes to Ruby Franke, the issue here is…

THERE IS NO WAY IN H*** THAT HER HUSBAND WASN’T AWARE OF HER TOXICITY AND ABUSE.

Even if the extreme abuses were only in the last few years, Ruby Franke had CPS called on her by neighbors and her own daughter. Before the scandal, there were petitions circulated to investigate her for child abuse. Even when masked, people were seeing signs that she was dangerous and that something immoral was happening.

So, her husband was co-signing all of that. That reveals a man with no empathy for his kids.

Also, he was fully aware of the YouTube channel, and anyone who can exploit their children for profit has some issues with abuse. Franke’s husband was a college professor, and his students said he often bragged that his wife made six figures on YouTube.

The Frankes cared about money and status, not their kids.

Furthermore, while her husband is quick to say she’s in a cult to police, he also was PARTICIPATING in that cult still. Even though he’d left his wife, he showed up for classes and zoom meetings to help treat his porn addiction and to win back his wife’s love.

Not only that: the phone calls released between them after her arrest showcase that he is FULLY on her side. She states that “adults can’t understand how evil kids can be and what it takes to control that.”

HE AGREED WITH THAT BS.

He didn’t offer one word of defense for his kids. He said she was “the truth of our family” and that he’d be by her side.

She claimed that it was all a witch hunt and that the devil was chasing her, but she felt secure in God and calm.

HE AGREED WITH THAT BS TOO.

He informed her that the kids would be in the hospital for three days and she said that the kids were definitely faking and exaggerating, and…you guessed it…

HE AGREED WITH THAT BS TOO.

I went digging on Reddit. I’m a professor myself who recently left academia, and one of the reasons I did was because I know that it’s an institution, like any institution of power, CHOCK FULL OF NARCISSISTS AND PREDATORS. So, I figured…somewhere, there are students spilling on this man.

Sure enough, a former student said that he was a good professor who he learned a lot from and who students seemed to worship and love (not unusual when narcissists are charismatic); however, this student found him to be a HIGHLY NARCISSISTIC egomaniac, and the student himself was raised in a narcissistic family system, so he was sensitive to it. He said he was always inserting Mormonism into his lectures, and he told students that he and his wife were approached for a TV show, but they didn’t want to have to compromise their feelings against LGBTQ by being mainstream.

Homophobia — another common staple of sociopaths, as they’re all bisexual. The “evils” they fear in others are always themselves.

Finally, while it seems true that they were estranged, there’s no evidence that Ruby was preventing him from seeing his kids or calling and checking on them.

This tells me that he, in all likelihood, didn’t care about them whatsoever.

It’s also typical of Mormon culture to easily excuse very obviously guilty white men.

The grandparents, in their letter to the judge in which they proclaim Franke’s victimhood to a cult and perfection as a mother, state that they’re on an overseas mission.

Their six grandchildren were discovered near death and their daughter was possibly facing life in prison and…they really still couldn’t even be bothered to come home, let alone volunteer to care for the kids.

Yeah, this is a family chock full of people with zero emotional empathy.

2) Her kids names

This led me to want to identify who of her six kids were golden children and who were scapegoats.

It’s pretty easy to identify who is golden, scapegoat, or invisible if you know their reasons for their choices in names for their children and you understand that with split thinking and low emotional intelligence, pwNPD think in very simple and childlike terms.

Golden children are perfect and copies of themselves, so they’re named after the narcissist parent in some way: they’re Jrs., their names rhyme, they have their parents’ first name as a middle name, or they have the same middle name.

Scapegoat children are all bad so they’re named after someone who died tragically or is former supply of the narcissist that the narcissist couldn’t control and seeks to re-enact and control through the child. (For them, it’s like playing a game again when you lost the first time, and hoping this time you’ll win because your opponent is so obviously weak and disadvantaged).

Invisible children are irrelevant to them and will be given common names or names that are very unusual and go outside of the patterns of all other names in the family. They often have no reason for the name choice — they just randomly assign it like an afterthought, and they deny affection and attention to invisible children.

At first glance at her kids names — Shari, Chad, Abby, Julie, Russel, and Eve — it appeared there could be three goldens, as three children have names that rhyme with Ruby. Though, this isn’t a guarantee that those are all golden children.

My guess was that Abby definitely was, as her name mirrored Ruby the most in spelling, number of letters, etc. Russel and Eve were the ones found near death, so I felt sure they were scapegoats, and clearly their names were nothing like their mom’s or dad’s. (I looked into middle names too — you can’t forget they often golden child through the middle names. No pattern).

Fortunately, Franke discussed why she gave all her kids the names she did in an old YouTube video.

What I found in analyzing Franke’s family was something I’ve never found before.

It appeared that ALL SIX OF HER KIDS WERE SCAPEGOATS.

More often I find families in which there are more goldens and only one or two scapegoats (or even none).

Six scapegoat kids shows me that this woman and her husband both have a MOUNTAIN of shame to offload.

Shari — named after paternal grandmother

This would make her scapegoat. The paternal grandmother would be, for Ruby, competition over ownership of her spouse (they absolutely HATE mother-in-laws); for her husband, his mother would be someone who he seeks to control and enact vengeance on for his childhood through the scapegoat child.

This also checks out because Shari showed a lot of compassion for her siblings. She called the police about them more than once and she was vocal that she felt her mom deserved prison and needed to be stopped. Scapegoat children love their siblings (even our narcissist ones) and are deeply protective over them and vocal against abuse.

Chad — named after maternal grandfather

Chad served the same role of scapegoat that Shari did, but for the other parent’s need to avenge and control her father and her husband’s envy for the father.

Abby — named after Ruby’s enemy in school who was jealous of her

Well, color me shocked! Abby isn’t a golden at all. She’s named after former supply that the narcissist hated.

Again, this is their way of recreating the experience through the child and using the child’s vulnerability to satisfy their desire for vengeance over the former supply. (Disturbingly, I have two sociopath exes that named kids after me).

Julie — named after Aunt Julie

A sibling for a narcissist is always competition. Anyone named after the parent’s sibling is scapegoat. They may pretend to love that sibling, but they abuse, envy, and compete with siblings. This is just the nature of their childlike emotional intelligence.

Russell — named after church’s prophet

Again, this seems like an honor, but the church’s prophet would be someone who had power over them or status above them in some way, someone who God favored. This is not a good thing to a narcissist, so it makes sense they were torturing this child to prove their power and favor with God.

Eve — named after Eve in the Bible

You know, the first sinner? The one who disobeyed God. The one who ushered evil into the world. A scapegoat child, without question.

(Fun fact: I was named after Anne Boelyn, executed by her sociopath husband.)

Not only were these six kids all scapegoats, but they were scapegoated by BOTH sociopathic parents — it’s also unusual that both parents would have no goldens and need this many scapegoats.

That tells me that both Ruby and her husband are genuinely FULL of hate, envy, and resentment. The likelihood that either of them cares at all for any of their scapegoat kids is almost null.

They HATE the scapegoat kids at birth. It never changes. The hate only increases, especially if the scapegoat heals or grows or shows potential or accomplishes anything.

3) Her journals

Franke’s journals were recently released, and they’re REVOLTING.

She carefully documents all of her horrific behavior towards her children. What makes it so eerie is how earnest she seems to be about her sainthood and her children’s demons.

She seems convinced that she’s abusing them because she loves them, because she’s at war with a demon who has possessed them.

No sane person with empathy and love of children can read Franke’s journals without feeling ill or crying. I won’t even summarize her acts.

But when you understand how sociopathy works, you understand that EVERYTHING THEY ACCUSE IS CONFESSION.

THEY SMEAR THEIR SCAPEGOATS and then they mask as them — as innocent and loving. It’s spiritual identity theft.

So, Ruby Franke’s truths are all laid bare in the things she says about her scapegoated kids:

That they’ve sold their soul to Satan

That they’re in denial that Satan will sting you in the end

That they’re mad as hell they don’t call all the shots

That they lie and feel no remorse

That they cheat and steal

That one of them has been sexually abusing other kids since childhood

These are all Ruby Franke’s sins.

She crucified her children to make them wash her sins away by absorbing her sins and making her blameless.

4) Her real relationship with Jodi

Her relationship to Jodi is bizarre as can be. The more you dive into that can of worms, the more you want out. There are even some supernatural claims that are eerie, like dishes flying across the room and breaking and hail in August.

Jodi was a famous mental health and parenting coach with a psychology degree who lived in a pretty obscene mansion. (Yep, many sociopaths become therapists! It’s a place full of vulnerable supply they can abuse).

After Franke’s YouTube had to be shut down over backlash about her abusive methods, Franke sought out Jodi for mental and spiritual coaching. She also made her the therapist to her son. (As a borderline who has had a sociopath therapist before, I shudder at that detail).

In Ruby, Jodi saw an opportunity to recruit someone with a proven track record of charisma in generating millions of views. They teamed up and started to make videos, which were not without their controversy in pedaling authoritarian parenting methods as well as racism and homophobia.

But what’s weird in their partnership: Ruby left her husband and MOVED IN with Jodi.

In my experience with sociopaths, my alarm bells immediately told me that Jodi and Ruby had more than a business partnership, and their homophobia also confirms: they had a sexual relationship. They were enmeshed and in idealization.

Sure enough: more digging into their relationship revealed that they’d “go to the bedroom for hours and go into a trance state” and they’d come out “euphoric,” according to Franke’s husband.

Ya’ll — this is all euphemism. They were having sex.

When they were arrested, they held hands and sang chants.

They were in love.

5) Her accusations/projections

Oh, but the sociopath’s love is short lived — every time — even with another sociopath who is just like them. That’s their curse.

They don’t even see their own patterns, how this cycle happens again and again in relationships and how it mirrors what happened with their parent who golden childed them and abandoned them.

Often, they just obliviously do this until death.

Ruby’s tone about Jodi changed the longer she was incarcerated. At first, she doubled down on their innocence that they were God’s chosen. She aligned them with Joseph Smith and Jesus and how they were also woefully misunderstood and betrayed.

She said that God talked to her and assured her that she “doesn’t do naughty things. I’m a really good girl.” (Notice this childlike phrasing here — it’s a hint of their trauma and who they really are behind the mask — deeply confused selfish children living in fantasy, unsure if they’re all good or all bad, desperate to be all good and golden and loved).

But soon…her thoughts evolved. She said a miracle of God showed her new light.

This is where I perked up: is it true? Did God really touch her heart? Is she being accountable? Is she…is she…healing?

I want to believe it’s possible because I want it for my family so badly.

Alas, no.

She’s only projecting.

She begins to blame everything on Jodi and says that she was a supreme victim to Jodi, that before Jodi she was a perfect mom, (which her older children have denied). She even says she’s going to go to a therapist to prove that she has “no mental health problems at all.”

I’m SORRY: if you can waterboard and starve and hogtie your own kid, YOU. HAVE. A. PROBLEM.

We don’t define that as mentally healthy or even moral.

True empathy would make even the idea of doing that TO ANYONE revolting.

The denial of pwNPD and pwASPD is so maddening. But, if you again examine what she accuses Jodi of, you find Ruby Franke’s truths:

That she knew she was lying the whole time

That she will lie in her psychological interview

That she will pretend to be sane but it will be obvious she’s mentally ill

That she was “like a six year old who knows they’re supposed to pee in the toilet, but they pee in the heating vent, so they try to hide it.”

That she was tricked by Satan

And here’s the answer I was looking for, the big kick in the gut:

That she only pled guilty and offered an apology because she didn’t want to do life and she knew she would if she didn’t act sorry

Tragically, it appears that nothing’s changed with Ruby Franke. Her tears and accountability, even though they were truthful, were nothing but an act to save her hide from life behind bars.

She never loved any of those kids and she never will: even as she took accountability, she saw herself as being a victim to a cult rather than seeing her actual misdeeds.

The good news is that with no golden children, there are no more Ruby Franke’s in this bloodline of trauma, but her kids will, undoubtedly, trauma bond to sociopaths as they try to earn the love they never got in childhood from a surrogate abuser. They may have kids with sociopaths.

I pray they make it: it’s a real crapshoot for any person with BPD: we have an average life expectancy of 39, enormous healthcare burdens, and frequent suicidal ideation and attempts. Our trauma bonding also ensures we are often with people who have no empathy or conscience, putting our lives in danger unknowingly, as we keep falling in love with people who hate us and seek to trick us.

May these children have much healing: their parents gave them a heavy curse to bear.

May they break the generational curse and be truth speakers and bright lights of genuine love and compassion to illuminate the darkness.

Ruby Franke said that her arrest was a miracle, and, honestly I believe it was — it was divine intervention that saved those kids and gave one the courage and strength to escape and go to the neighbors.

In the face of a darkness like Ruby Franke’s, there’s comfort in that truth.

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Anne M. Champion is the author of This is a Story About Ghosts: A Memoir of Borderline Personality Disorder (KDP, 2024), Hunted Carrion: Sonnets to a Stalker (KDP, 2024), She Saints & Holy Profanities (Quarterly West, 2019), The Good Girl is Always a Ghost (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), Book of Levitations (Trembling Pillow Press, 2019), Reluctant Mistress (Gold Wake Press, 2013), and The Dark Length Home (Noctuary Press, 2017). Her work appears in Verse Daily, diode, Tupelo Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, Salamander, New South, Redivider, PANK Magazine, and elsewhere. She was a 2009 Academy of American Poets Prize recipient, a 2016 Best of the Net winner, and a Barbara Deming Memorial Grant recipient.