poetry
- Whiskey Island, Issue 68, "I suppose being a lady is like:," "This is the Language of Lying in Bed With You."
- The Shallow Ends, "a difference."
- The Harpoon Review, Issue 24, "why are you crying: a few answers"
- Wyvern Lit, Issue 6, "The Little Dolls of Hazard"
- Finalist: 2016 Mississippi Review Contest, "“[It is autumn here but the weather is so warm". Forthcoming in MR 44.1&2.
- Winner: 2015 Poetry International Prize, "There is No Denying the Naturalness." Judged by Carol Frost. Forthcoming.
- Split Lip Magazine, Issue 16, "[Where through the window can god see this]," "Coincident," "The Moon, A Mirror, A Lantern," and "when I think of the coldest I’ve ever been I don’t think of Michigan winters"
- Winner: The Madison Review's Phyllis Smart-Young Prize for Poetry, for best trio of poems, "Lady Roach," "Pup Tent," and "If You Are Raising Fowl." Spring 2015 Issue.
- So to Speak, Fall 2015: “rue”
- Cleaver Magazine, Issue 9: "tonight the stars are strung up like elegies"
- Flapper House, #5: “Khepri” and “[some mornings I wake to feel as if I have lattice wings”
- Spoon River Poetry Review, 39.2, “keeping”
- Electric Cereal, October 2014: Five Poems
- DIALOGIST, Volume II Issue II: “The Lavender and Thyme”
- Everyday Genius, July 2014: “even”
- Voicemail Poems, July 2014: “another poem about the whole goddamn universe (because all poems are about the whole goddamn universe if you think about it that way and you should)”
- Bodega, Issue 7: “molting menagerie”
- the Pinch, Issue 33.1: “singing smoke”
- the Boiler Journal, Fall Issue V: “[i am the universe and i am]” & “SINK”
- Sundog Lit, Issue 2: “The Woman, Here (Sestina)”
- Fogged Clarity: "firefly"
nonfiction
- Finalist: 2016 Black Warrior Review Contest, "Limnology." Preview featured here.
- Finalist: Sycamore Review's 2014 Wabash Prize for Nonfiction, Judged by Leslie Jamison, “Breastwork.” Spring 2015 Issue.
- The Manifest-Station, "Fragment"
- Heavy Feather Review, Summer 2014: “The Etymology of Yellow: To Shine or Cry Out”
- the Bohemyth, August 2014: “Mama Never Told Me There’d Be Days Like These Because She Met My Father in Kindergarten and Carried Only His Name in Her Notebook All the Years Since”
- the Collagist, July 2014: Interview
- the Collagist, February 2014: “Binary”
- the Pinch, Weekly Throwdown #1 Winner
- Treehouse: “Eczema, Exoskeleton”
awards & honors
- Finalist: 2016 Black Warrior Review Contest, "Limnology."
- Summer 2016 Fellow: Lambda Literary Writer's Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices
- Finalist: 2016 Mississippi Review Contest, "“[It is autumn here but the weather is so warm"
- Winner of Madison Review's 2015 Phyllis Smart-Young Prize for Poetry.
- Finalist: Sycamore Review's 2014 Wabash Prize for Nonfiction, Judged by Leslie Jamison, “Breastwork.”
- Finalist: Redivder's Beacon Street Prize, Judged by Cheryl Strayed, “Teach My Body How to Behave”
- Nikky Finney’s Buckner Lecture Keynote, introduction.
- Second Place in UNCW’s Poetry Slam
