AWARDS

Runner-UP for Defunkt Magazine’‘s 2025 Fall Chapbook Contest, judged by Randall J. Tyrone, for HEROIC Sonnet CROWN titled “visiting Pastoral”

Selected as an Isle Royale National park Artist-in-Residence for August 2025

Co Runner-Up for GMU Rinehart Poetry Award in April 2024 for a poem entitled “Mid-August”

Before 2020

• Best in Genre for poetry in The Mercury in April 2015 for poem entitled “February”
• First Prize for the Virginia Woolf Essay Prize in April 2015 for essay entitled “Floral”
• Runner-Up in Marion Zulauf Academy of American Poetry Prize in April 2015 for poem entitled “Lamprocapnos spectabilis“

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POEMS

2027

Prairie schooner, forthcoming spring 2027, “Visiting Pastoral, x.” and “Visiting Pastoral, Baker’s dozen”

2026

Michigan Quarterly Review, forthcoming SUMMER 2026, “Seven Years” (PRINT)

Waxing & Waning, Forthcoming SUMMER 2026, “Sixteen Portraits with Tomatoes,” and “Migration Patterns”

Laurel Review, forthcoming in 58.2, “Good Food Fast” (PRINT)

Waxwing XXXVI, July 2026, “Mother as impression,” “Mid-August,” and “What They Can Ask of Me” (ONLINE)

Ballast, June 2026, “My Grandfather Uses Yesterday’s New York Times To” (ONLINE)

Oroboro, May 2026, “Hell is a Hallway,” and “Nocturne” (Online & Print)

West Branch, 111, “Visiting Pastoral, iii.,” “Brid[g]e,” and “Let me,” (PRINT)

South Florida Poetry Journal, May 2026, “Two Truths and One Lie” (Online)

2025

Muzzle, April 2025, “Visiting Pastoral iv.” (ONLINE)

Pinch, 45:2, Spring 2025, “Visiting Pastoral ii.” (PRINT)

Salt Hill, 53, Spring 2025, “Visiting Pastoral i.” (PRINT)

South Carolina Review, 57:2, Spring 2025, “Nape” (PRINT)

Raleigh Review, Spring 2025, “I’m in love with Lot’s wife” (PRINT)

Santa Clara Review, Spring 2025, “Consider the hairpin turn;” and “In the early morning hours” (PRINT)

2024

West Trade Review, September 2024, “Lullaby” (ONLINE)

Passengers Journal, VOL 5, ISsue 2, June 2024, “Yard in Early September” (ONLINE & in PRINT)

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2015

Sunset Liminal Press, Vol. 1, Spring 2015, “Birth Bouquet” & “Lamprocapnos spectabilis” (PRINT)

The Mercury, 2015, “February”, “Lamprocapnos spectabilis“, & “To My Father” (PRINT)

2013

The Mercury, 2013, “Forbidden Fruit” & “Epitaph for Elise” (PRINT)

Selected Prose

Gettysburg College, “Floral”, Receipt of the Virginia Woolf Essay Prize, 2015
The Mercury, “The Rose Peddler”, 2013
The Mercury, “For Elise,” 2012