Wolf Act Launch in Logan, UT
AJ Romriell in conversation with Jennifer Sinor at Utah State University's Merrill-Cazier Library
6
MAR
2025
Wolf Act Launch in Detroit, MI
AJ Romriell in conversation with Jamaal May at 27th Letter Books.
20
MAR
2025
Off-site Reading at AWP in Los Angeles, CA
AJ Romriell will be reading at an off-site event at AWP (more info coming soon!)
26-29
MAR
2025
More events coming soon!
Updates
I received my first Pushcart nominations this year--and I actually got two!
Black Warrior Review
"Ghost Boys: A Bricolage"
The Missouri Review, Poem of the Week,
"HIV: An Abridged Biography."​



It has been a dream of mine to have my work published in Electric Literature, and that dream came true in November 2024! "Bodies, Lakes, and Other Uninhabitable Places" is an essay on "The Last of Us," the Great Salt Lake in Utah, and the days following my HIV diagnosis in 2020.

My poem, "HIV: An Abridged Biography," was selected and published as a part of The Missouri Review's Poem of the Week series! It's a poem about HIV, alchemy, black holes, and more.


The AWP Intro Journals Project is a literary competition for the discovery and publication of the best new works by students currently enrolled in AWP member programs. Program directors are invited to nominate student work, and winners are selected for publication in participating literary journals.
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Two panels were accepted for the conference in LA this spring! They are "Confronting the Divine: Writing Through and About Religious Trauma" and "This Beautiful Body: Writing into Illness."
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"I don't know how to be poz," a poem written in response to my HIV diagnosis in 2020, has been published in the Michigan Quarterly Review Mixtape series under the theme of RAGE.
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"Ghost Boys: A Bricolage," an essay from Wolf Act, has been featured in Black Warrior Review's new issue, 50.2. It's an essay about a lot of things—relationships, sexuality, dating apps, HIV, divorce, ghosts—but it’s mostly about how we come alive.
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The cover is here! Such beautiful work done by Jeremy Parker and University of Wisconsin Press. I couldn't have asked for a better team to help me bring this book to life.
Wolf Act Announcement!
My debut collection of essays about growing up queer and neurodivergent in the Mormon religion is officially expected to be released early 2025 from University of Wisconsin Press.
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More updates to come!


Presidential Fellow at The Ohio State University
I have been named one of the recipients of The Ohio State University's 2023-24 Presidential Fellowship!
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OSU's Graduate School describes it as the “most prestigious award to recognize the outstanding scholarly accomplishments and potential of graduate students entering the final phase of their dissertation research or terminal degree project."
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PUBLICATION IN BREVITY
My essay, "I Know My Body Tried to Save Me," a flash piece that examines my HIV diagnosis back in 2020, has been published in Issue 73 of Brevity!


Recipient of a
Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant for Local Artists
The Greater Columbus Arts Council funds several artists every year, and in the summer of 2023, I received $1,700 to assist in furthering my work.