Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere
Read: the title essay “Backyard Alchemy” (The Common)
Purchase: Backyard Alchemy: on life with other creatures in a time of salvage (River River Books, 2026)
J.D. Ho was born by the sea, raised on a rock, schmoozed in Hollywood, drove to Austin, Texas for an MFA, and now lives among foxes and deer on a sliver of east coast green. J.D.’s work has appeared in Georgia Review, Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, and other journals.
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