Awards & Honors

  • Finalist, James Applewhite Prize, North Carolina Literary Review, 2019, 2016, 2026

  • Merit-Based Scholarship, Bennington Writing Seminars, M.F.A., 2023-2025

  • Semi-Finalist, Randall Jarrell Poetry Contest, 2023

  • Semi-Finalist, Writer’s South Award, 2022

  • NC Poetry Society Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series, 2014

  • NC Poetry Council Award, 2013

Selected Publications

  • “Premonition,” Prime Number Magazine (forthcoming)

  • “To Do List After the Funeral: Demeter,” North Carolina Literary Review (forthcoming)

  • “By Contrast, As the Crow Flies,” Scientific American (forthcoming)

  • “Lunarscape with Saguaros,” Cold Mountain Review, Vol. 53, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2025

  • Toxic Femininity, SWWIM, March 4, 2024

  • “Portrait of the Artist,” Main Street Rag, Vol. 29, No. 1, Summer 2024

  • “In Love with Death and Poetry,” (Book Review), BigCityLit, Summer 2023

  • “Laundromat Banga Banga,” Painted Bride Quarterly, issue 104, May 2023

  • “On Ringing the Far-Off Bell,” (Essay), Art in the Making, Essays by Artists About What They Do, The Fisher Press, 2022

  • “Label Maker,” Semi-Finalist, Randall Jarrell Poetry Contest, 2023

  • “Bagatelle,” CharlotteLit, Semi-Finalist, Writer’s South Award, 2022

  • “Herd Animal,” North Carolina Literary Review, 2020

  • “Rabbit, Rabbit,” Cave Wall, #15, 2019

  • “December Pasture,” Greensboro Review, #101, 2017

  • “Sonny Man and the Snake,” North Carolina Literary Review, 2017

  • “Boy,” Southwest Review, 2015

  • “Monday Group, “ What Matters (Anthology), Jacar Press, 2013

Selected Public Readings

  • Weave & Spin, Orange Arts (Hillsborough, NC), June 2026

  • Poetry @ The Plant (Pittsboro, NC), April 2026

  • Triangle Land Conservancy (Raleigh, NC), April 2026

  • Bennington Writing Seminars (Bennington, VT), June 2025

  • KGB Bar, (NYC), November, 2020

  • Coalesce, Eno Arts Mill, (collaborative project with visual artist , Diana Newton, (Hillsborough, NC), January 2025