“I write to disturb silence, to give shape to what resists vanishing, to make language hold the weight of memory without collapsing.”

I am Jody, the hand behind SALT+TONGUE — a gathering place for words that refuse to behave. The work here is layered: poems that press close, essays that resist easy answers, manuscripts that stretch into entire worlds. Nothing is tidy. Nothing is decorative. Every piece carries marrow.

I came to writing not as a choice but as survival. Over time it became something larger — a way to name fractures, to build from them, and to offer those names to others walking through their own.

I believe stories are not entertainment alone. They are scaffolding. They are archive. They are proof that we were here, that we endured, that we dared to imagine otherwise.

SALT+TONGUE is the house I built for that proof: a place where the work can be kept whole, where readers might come not for escape but for recognition.

If you stay, know this: the writing here will not flatter. It will ask. It will press. But it will meet you honestly, and it will leave space for you to meet it back.