Recent Work
Winner, Moon City Poetry Prize, Moon City Press, 2023 (Long Exposure to be published Winter 2023)
“Offspring” featured in Bear Review (Nominated for Best of the Net 2023)
Slamdance Screenplay Competition: “Toothache” short screenplay
Finalist, Southern Indiana Review, Michael Waters Poetry Prize 2023
Finalist, Autumn House Poetry Prize 2022
3rd Place, Narrative’s Poetry Contest 2022
Long List, YesYes Books Open Reading Period 2023
Long List, Harbor Edition’s Laureate Prize
Quarterfinalist, Driftwood Press, 2022 Adrift Short Story Contest
Best American Poetry 2022, “Myths About Trees” (originally in West Branch)
COUNTERCLOCK “Moon Charger” (Nominated for Best of the Net 2023)
Finalist, 2021 Award for New Poets, Frontier Poetry
Semi-Finalist; 2021 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry
Semi-Finalist; Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award 2022
Poetry Northwest “A Forecast of Snow”
North American Review “Visitor”
Tupelo Quarterly “Stakkars Lilla Basse” and “Footnote to a Blizzard”
Featured Poems
“Dispatch” featured in Pangyrus, 2020
The Adroit Journal “Eggs After Sell by Date” “Drift” & “How I Wrote ‘Drift’”
Iowa Review "At Squire Point" and “I Don’t Want to be a Sad Mother”
Pangyrus “Dispatch”
Selected Poems from Periodicals
The Bennington Review "University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics" and "Treatment" (nominated for Pushcart)
B O D Y Literature: "Unfinished Ocean" & "The Middle House"
Brink “Video Footage” “Where You Get Your Distance From” and “Two”
The Columbia Review “Playscape”
EX/POST “Hospital”
The Moth: "Red Coat"
La Fovea "Callas" and "Black"
The Cortland Review “In the Snow Globe Weather”
H.O.W. Journal: Young Poets Series "Primary" & "Normal-Sized Stars"
Gulf Coast "Lightship"
Redivider "Christmas"
Ploughshares "A Disease of the Mind"
Prairie Schooner: “Sleeping Apart” and “How to Turn Myself Off”
Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland "March"; "New Palestine" & "Effects"
Day One: "In Proportion"
H.O.W. Journal: "Last of April"
Stone Canoe: "Heaven"
Handsome: "At the Lake" & "Sketch of Winter"
phantom press: "Invitation From My Brother"
The Journal: "Wood Thrush" & "Sugar" (nominated for Best of the Net, 2015)
BLAAH magazine: "Good Night's Sleep"
LARB Quarterly Journal: "Katarina"
Pacifica Literary Review: "Owl"
Spoon River Poetry Review “Loneliest Day of Being Your Mother”
West Branch “Alouette” “Myths About Trees” “Hammerhead” “Some Wolves”
Yo! New York: "Zero"
