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