journal publications:
“Honeymoon with Global Warming,” Birdcoat Quarterly Editor’s Choice Prize selection (Forthcoming).
“Capital Health,” The Tusculum Review (Forthcoming).
“The Hottest Summer on Record,” South Dakota Review 58.2 (Forthcoming).
“Appendectomy” and “November Wake,” The National Poetry Review (December 2023).
“Diastasis Recti,” Cumberland River Review 12.2 (April 2023).
“Banana Wilt,” Atticus Review (Feb 2023).
“Vasospasm,” Carve Magazine (Fall 2022).
“Before Bed,” River Mouth Review 12 (Fall 2022).
“Hello Lodge,” Sixth Finch (Spring 2022).
“Long Weekend,” Valparaiso Poetry Review 23.2 (Spring 2022).
“Market,” The Shore 13 (Spring 2022).
“Florence,” Rust and Moth (Spring 2022).*
(Nominated for Best of the Net Anthology 2023)
*Reprint: “Florence” featured on Autumn Sky Daily Poetry, June 2, 2022.
“Beach Island” and “Wanaksink Lake,” Stonecoast Review 16 (January 2022).
“The Second Month,” Up The Staircase Quarterly 55 (November 2021).
“The Wedding,” Driftwood Press 82 (July 2021).
“Postnatal,” Pretty Owl Poetry 28 (Winter 2021).
“Sterile Field,” Literary Mama (Jan/Feb 2021).
“The Apology,” SWWIM Every Day, December 9, 2020.
“Febrile,” Literary Mama (Nov/Dec 2020).
"High Acres Drive" and "Isidore." Thrush Poetry Journal (November 2017).
"Connemara." Gulf Stream Magazine (Summer Contest Issue, 2017).
(Finalist, 2017 Summer Writing Contest) (Special Mention, Pushcart Prize XLIII)
"The Worst Thing." New Plains Review (Spring 2017).
"Lake House." Forklift, Ohio 34 (Spring 2017).
"The Dune." The Pinch 36.2 (Fall 2016).
"The Incident at Dike Bridge." Harpur Palate 16.1 (Summer/Fall 2016).
"St. Tammany Parish" and "Metairie 11." Red Paint Hill 9 (January 2016).
"Walking In Tall Grass With Violence." Tinderbox Poetry Journal 2.3 (October 2015).
"Nana's House," "Budgie," "Strawberries," and "Summer Camp." Menacing Hedge 4.3 (January 2015).
"Metairie 5," "Metairie 7," "Metairie 9," and "Metairie 10." Thrush Poetry Journal (January 2015).
"Melusine, Cursed To Live As A Serpent From The Waist Down On Sundays." Cimarron Review 189 (Fall 2014).
"Metairie 6" and "Metairie 8." The Journal 38.3 (Summer 2014).
"The Seal Wife," "Metairie 4," and "The Mirror." The Boiler Journal (Summer 2014).
(Nominated for Best of the Net Anthology 2015)
"Metairie 1," "Metairie 2," and "Metairie 3." Parcel Magazine (Spring/Summer 2014).
"Antlophobia." Smartish Pace 21 (Spring 2014).
(Finalist, 2014 Erskine J. Poetry Prize)
"Seed Moon." Thrush Poetry Journal (March 2014).
(Nominated for the Pushcart Prize)
"The Aquarium." The Adroit Journal 8 (Winter 2013/4).
"Dog Moon" and "Worm Moon." District (October 2013).
"Backyard." Border Crossing (Fall 2013).
"The Lawn." Anderbo.com (2013).
"Entomophobia" and "To A Girl (1)." storySouth (Spring 2013).
"Hydrophobia." APIARY Magazine 5 (Fall 2012).
(Winner, Academy of American Poets Prize, University of Missouri)
"To A Girl (2)." Nashville Review 8 (Summer 2012).
"Telephonophobia." Tuesday; An Art Project (Spring 2012).
"For Rosemary Kennedy, Lobotomized Age 23." The Greensboro Review (Spring 2011).
(Nominated for Best New Poets 2012)
"Bipolar Ghazal." Redivider (Spring 2011).
"August Ghazal." Fugue (Summer/Fall 2010).
(Runner-Up, 2010 Ron McFarland Prize for Poetry)
"On the Nod." The Country Dog Review (Spring 2010).
"Phone Call." The Superstition Review (Fall 2008).
awards & recognition:
“The Apology,” Finalist, 2020 Rita Dove Award from the Center for Women Writers
“Lake House,” Finalist, 2020 Broadside Contest from Sundress Publications
"Connemara," Special Mention, Pushcart Prize XLIII
"Connemara," Finalist, 2017 Summer Writing Contest from Gulf Stream Magazine
“High Acres Drive,” Finalist, 2017 Poetry Contest from Still: The Journal
"Antlophobia,” Finalist, 2014 Erskine J. Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace
"Hydrophobia," Winner, 2012 Academy of American Poets Prize - University of Missouri
"August Ghazal," Runner-Up, 2010 Ron McFarland Prize for Poetry from Fugue
anthologies:
“Lake House” appears in Haunted (Porkbelly Press, 2022)
broadside:
"Seahorse Motel." Broadsided Press (November 2013).
short film:
"Telephonophobia." Adapted and directed by Kyle McConaghy of Strapping Production (2013).