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

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

Michigan Quarterly Review, forthcoming Spring 2026, “Seven Years”

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

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

Waxwing, forthcoming Spring 2026, “Mother as impression,” “Mid-August,” and “What They Can Ask of Me”

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