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poetry

  • Rust + Moth, "manual"
  • Cotton Xenomorph, "if you die in the dream you still got some sleep"
  • Glass: A Journal of Poetry, April Issue, “Management, Not Cure”
  • Glass: A Journal of Poetry, February Issue, “Imago”
  • 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
  • Two Flash Essays: Sidereal Magazine, “Or So the Legend Goes” and “Dog Years are for People”
  • 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
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