Poetry Publications & Awards

Cincinnati Review - Self-Portrait as the Eight of Swords, 21.2

Salamander - German Shepherd, 57

2023 Weatherford Poetry Award finalist, Berea College & Appalachian Studies Association for Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility

East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame Emerging Writer Award, 2024

atmospheric quarterly - Self Portrait as The Dreamer & New Year’s Day, 2024 & Wetlands between the Mountains, 1.1

Novus Literary Arts Journal - Years Were & Yellow Trillium Morphology, Fall/Winter 2023

Red Branch Review - That Time of Year & The Lord God and the Aster Brake, vol. 2

The Journal - After the Abortion Rights March in Knoxville, Tennessee, 46.4

Josephine Quarterly - Desire, Spring 2023

Red Tree Review - Bird Calls & Weightlessness & Flaying Season, 3

Greg Grummer Poetry Contest finalist, phoebe - The Cicada, 52.2

Terrain.org - Boxelder Season in the Tennessee Valley, May 2023

Adrienne Rich Award winner, Beloit Poetry Journal - The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, 72.2 (2023)

Still: the Journal - La Milpa, East Tennessee & Marcescence, 41 (2023) *Marcescence nominated for Best of the Net*

The Racket Journal - Look at Everything & Children of Asylum Seekers, April 2023

Another Chicago Magazine - Notes on the Balds of Southern Appalachia & Entrapment, April 2023

West Trade Review - Pollen, 14 (Spring 2023)

The Tusculum Review - Children are Not the Glue, Vol. 18 (2022)

Mergoat Mag - Four poems, No. 1

ROOM Magazine - Looking out over the Salt March, 45.4

Ron Rash Award finalist, Broad River Review - Flower Moon, vol. 54

The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy - Yard-Sitting during the Pandemic & Every Year, Another Invitation to Change Your Life, 38.1 (2022)

Susurrus: A Literary Arts Magazine of the American South - Hairy Bittercress, Winter 2022

Literary Mama - Driving the Baby to Sleep, Nov/Dec 2022

The Hopper - Vegetable X, Fall 2022 *Nominated for Pushcart Prize* *Nominated for Best of the Net*

Heartwood Poetry Prize finalist - White Oak Sink, September 2022

Mom Egg Review (MER) - Exile, September 2022 *Nominated for Best of the Net*

Sweet Tree Review - After Reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, August 2022

Rust + Moth - Air Quality, Autumn 2022

Mutha Magazine - First Unbroken Sleep, June 2022

Juke Joint - Thinking Big & New Myth, April 2022

Wolfson Press Chapbook Contest semifinalist - Re / Wilding, March 2022

Stirring: a Literary Collection - Trying, Spring 2022

Jet Fuel Review - Pivoting in Appalachia, Spring 2022

Humana Obscura - In the Garden, Watching the Storm Come In, Spring 2022

Canary - Sprouting Wand & Playing the Washboard, Spring 2022

Vita Brevis - The Work of Mothers, March 2022

The Racket - Ménière's Disease, Feb 2022 *Nominated for Pushcart Prize*

Appalachia Bare, George Scarbrough Poetry Contest 2nd prize winner - Tennessee Red Cob, December 2021

The Thinking Republic - First Sugar Moon of the Pandemic & The Usefulness of Advocacy, July 2021

Knoxville Writer’s Guild Poetry Contest 1st prize winner - Children of Asylum Seekers, December 2019

Fourteen Hills - A Hell of a Year, Winter 2015

Cutthroat - The Girl Who Came Out of Her House, Brushing Her Hair, Winter 2012

Sakura Review - A Poem for Seamus Heaney, Winter 2011