Recent Journal Publications
2021:
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls (an oceanic literary journal)
"At Shell Island I Glimpse the Future"
2020:
Voicemail Poems
"The Days Seem Longer When In the Morning There Is Rain"
"Christmas Poem, a Genealogy"
"If the Future Was Yesterday, then the Past is Forever"
Bone Parade
"Graveyards are Gardens that Embrace Those Who Lost"
Anthology & Chapbook Publications
Pull the Blinds
Black Elephant Press, 2016
Finishing Line Press, 2016
On A Wednesday Night: Poems From The Creative Writing Workshop At The University Of New Orleans
UNO Press, 2019
"The Sky Isn't Blue"
"When I Said I Wanted to Live..."
"Aubade for November 9th, 2016"
Older Poems in Journals (online & print)
2019:
Epigraph Magazine, issue 20
"The river fills with sticks and garbage…"
2018:
Ghost City Review, december 2018 Issue
"Attempts at Writing Cards Against Humanity, or Here’s to the Future"
Peach Mag, season 3
"Now That I Live in a Small City"
"The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory"
Bone Parade, issue 7
"When My Husband Flies Away for Work"
Oracle Fine Arts Review, volume XVI
"A Gift Can Be Tricky"
The Coraddi, 120.2 edition
"Five Haiku for the End of History"
"When I said I was ready to settle down"
Reality Hands, issue 15
"A Note on the Porch and a Plant that's Gone Missing"
2017:
Rascal Journal, issue 2
The Coraddi, 120.1 edition
Words Dance
"I Think the Answer to the Question May Be Zero"
"Carry On, Carrion"
"Recalled"
Barzakh Magazine, issue 09
No Assholes Lit. Magazine, volume 1 issue 9
"In A Window, Looking Out"
"Went Missing During the War"
2016:
After Happy Hour Review, issue 6
"When Trying to Trick Me, Do"
Sundog Lit, issue 11
"#BestWeddingEver"
"On Culture"
Rat's Ass Review, volume 4 issue 2
Thank You For Swallowing
BOAAT, march/april issue
2015:
IDK Magazine, issue 2
The James Franco Review, issue 4
"Avocado comes from an old Aztec Word for Testicle"
"While Walking the Dog at One in the Morning"
Clackamas Literary Review
"Harbinger"
2014:
NYSAI Press, fall issue: exphibian
"I've Tried to Erase This Image"
Cordella Magazine, issue 2: shelter
"Mountain Earthquakes and Other Minor Catastrophes"
"Me and the Woodsman"
Rougarou Literary Journal
"The Gulf Between Us"
Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed
The Knickknackey, issue 2
The Helix Literary Magazine, volume XVI
"Grandfather Said"
Words Dance, issue 16
"A Lovely Payphone, in Chicago"
The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society, volume I issue V
"Fragile Feathered Friends"
Synaesthesia Magazine, nonsense issue
"Dream Signs"
Quaint Magazine, issue 1
"Daddy Longlegs of the Evening - Hope!”
“Pull the Blinds”
Similar Peaks
"Dust Metropolitan"
Buried Letter Press, absence issue
"Whiskey and an Apology"
Amethyst Arsenic
"Living Still Life"
2013:
Canary Lit Mag, winter issue
"For Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant"
Verbatim Found Poetry
Knock Magazine, number 16, the greed issue
"D.I.Y. Strip Show"
Belle Journal, volume 1
"Trains Don’t Roar..."
"Imitating Fireflies"
Furious Season Magazine, issue 3
"Anthropomorphic Test Devices"
"For Jordan Lake"
2012:
Samizdat Literary Journal
"To Save, Press 9"
Espresso Ink, volume 3
"2,100 Miles Without a Map"
2011:
Cold Mountain Review, volume 39 number 2
"A Difficult Man"
Samizdat Literary Journal
"It’s Easy, Adam, Like Breathing"
"Raleigh to Seattle in Thirteen Days"
Knock Magazine, number 14, the crystal clear issue
"Killed by the Road"
2010:
Main Street Rag, volume 15 number 2
"Midwest December Highway"
Readings, Panels, and Artist Talks
Writers Talk w/ Passengers Press, Summer 2021
West End Poetry Festival Virtual Reading, Fall 2020
Pandemic Poetry, Virtual Reading Series, Spring 2020
Traumedy Show, Pittsboro, NC, Winter 2019
West End Poetry Festival, Carrboro, NC, Fall 2019
Indy's Poetry Contest Winners' Reading @ So & So Books, Raleigh, NC, Spring 2015
Artist Talk @ Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC, Spring 2015
Hands On Literary Fest Reading @ Maison St. Charles, New Orleans, LA, Winter 2014
Featured Reader, Ladyfest, New Orleans, LA, Fall 2014
Panel Discussion “What Are Editors Looking For,” Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Fairhope, AL, Spring 2013
Featured Reader, River Writers Series, Baton Rouge, LA, Fall 2012
Featured Reader, Ladyfest, New Orleans, LA, Fall 2012
Featured Reader, GCACWT, Fairhope, AL, Spring 2011, 2012, and 2013
Class reading at the Maple Leaf, New Orleans, LA, Winter 2010, 2011, and 2012
Panel Discussion “When Two Become One: Merging of Identities in New Orleans’ Public Colleges,” Louisiana Association of College Composition, Lafayette, LA, Spring 2011
Nominations and Recognition
NCSU Poetry Contest Finalist (2021) for poem "Absence of Memory and a Pile of F Words"
Best New Poets Nomination (2017) for poem "When Trying to Trick Me, Do"
Pushcart Prize Nomination (2017) for poem "When Trying to Trick Me, Do"
Sundress Press Best of the Net Nomination (2016) "The Gift of Forgetting"
3rd Place, Indy Annual Poetry Contest, 2015
"After My Great-Grandmother's Funeral" will be traveling on the R-Line throughout April for the Raleigh Review's Poetry on Buses project, 2015
Runner Up, Dallas Poets Community Chapbook Contest (for unpublished collection Between the Blue), 2014
Finalist, NC Humanities Council Linda Flowers Literary Award, 2013
Nominee, AWP Intro Journals Project, 2013
Honorable Mention, Andrea Saunders Gereighty Poetry Award, 2012
Residencies
Communications Intern, Elsewhere Museum, Spring and Summer 2015
Poet in Residence, Art Farm Nebraska, Summer 2011