Words and Music by Sasha V

Selected writing

Literary WritingGirls Love
Poetry chapbook about being trans, boyhood, lost girlhoods, and yuri.
Published by Bottlecap Press in 2025All You Know and The Great Flood
Poems about family lore, fear, and nostalgia.
Published in Illuminations in 2025Top Down
Poem about traveling while queer.
Published in Discount Guillotine in 2025Ruminations and To the Dog Who Bit Me Outside the Adams Morgan CVS
Poems about early literary failure and quitting drinking.
Published in Black Fox Literary Magazine in 2024But Wasn’t it Nice, Still Hungry, and I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That
Poems about Rocky Horror, DIY touring, and teenage friendship.
Published in swamp pink in 2023Triangles
Personal essay about relationship realignments, photography, and what art and memes can teach us about intimacy.
Published in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's PMA Stories in 2021Before I Met You
Personal essay about transitioning.
Published in TriQuarterly in 2019
Nominated for a Pushcart PrizeLike an Asshole
Personal essay about drunken antics at a DIY basement show.
Published in Synesthesia Magazine in 2017The New Year
Personal essay about the dissolution of a middling punk band.
Published in The Rumpus in 2014.Islands
Short story about a substitute teacher searching for connection to his family in the Philippines.
Published in Guernica in 2012
Nominated for a Best of the Net award.Audio DramaPlanet Radiant
Apocalyptic fiction podcast about a museum at the end of the world.
2020-2022BlogsGame Facts
Reflections on millennial middle age through the lens of video games.
2022-presentMovie Findings
Personal reflections disguised as movie reviews.
2017-2019

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Selected Music

Morgue Arcana
Dance floor goth
Philadelphia, PA
2017-present
BandcampSashaV
Goth/darkwave/ethereal
Philadelphia, PA
2019-present
Bandcamp
Pandemic Les Miserables covers on YouTube
Original soundtrack for the Planet Radiant podcast.George Korein and the Spleen
Experimental
Philadelphia, PA
2001-present
BandcampInspector Moon
Fast hardcore
Philadelphia, PA
2016-2017
BandcampIn Heaven and You
Dark folk
Washington, DC
2005-2010
BandcampAlison Ranger
Screamo/post-punk
West Chester, PA
2002-2003
SpotifyFreelance musical theater/cabaret work
Philadelphia, PA and Washington, DC metro areas.
2013-present