Poetry & Prose
Birdcoat Quarterly – “Earthshine”
Blood Orange Review – “Scarecrow”
Blue Unicorn – “Winter”
Burningword Literary Journal – “Safety”
Cathexis Northwest Press – “Grief” | “Magnolia” | “The Modern Temperament” | Author Interview
Clementine Unbound – “Habitation”
CutBank – “Fake Plastic Trees”
The Dillydoun Review – “The Evangelist”
Eastern Iowa Review – “Seventeen”
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net
GASHER Journal – “B-roll” | “Growing Season” | “Marshmallow Test”
Gingerbread House – “Three Sisters”
High Shelf Press – “Tonight Your Ghost”
Image Journal – “Tea”
The Madison Review – “Estrangement” | “War Criminal”
Mason Street Review Community Room – “Proverb”
Midway Journal – “Immigrant Story”
2021 -1000 Below Flash Prose Contest, 2nd place | Selected by Tiana Clark
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
Midwest Review – “Afterscape”
New Ohio Review Online – “Ghosting”
New South – “Collateral”
Nimrod Journal – “Snapdragons” | “On Virtue” | “An Apology” | “Mistrust” | “Adonis”
Finalist for the 2022 Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry
Painted Bride Quarterly – “Dirtbag Wilderness” | “Funeral for a Cat” | “Wolf at the Door”
Featured on PBQ’s Slush Pile Podcast, Episode 97
Plainsongs – “Snakes”
Prometheus Dreaming – “The Burning”
Quarter After Eight – “Nebraska, 1981”
2020 Robert J. DeMott Short Prose Contest, 1st runner-up | Selected by Dinty W. Moore
Raleigh Review – “Purification”
Sidereal Magazine – “Tricks”
Small Orange Journal – “Porch Light”
2021 Emerging Woman Poet Honor, honorable mention
Sweet: A Literary Confection – “Parental Advisory”
2022 Poetry Contest, 3rd place | Selected by Jessica Guzman
Telepoem Booth Iowa – “Calling for Pizza”
Thimble Literary Magazine – “The Law of Falling Bodies”
Tiny Faith – “Agnostics”
Trampoline Poetry – “Intervention” | “Stereopsis” | “Survival”
Two Peach – “Damage Control” | “Retrospective” | “Violence”
Twyckenham Notes – “Sumac”
Anthologies
These Interesting Times: Surviving 2020 in the Quad Cities (MWC Press, 2021) – “Out of Egypt” | “Supplication on the Eve of Destruction” | “Unrest”
Listen at WVIK
Honors & Awards
Eastern Iowa Review – “Seventeen”
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net
Midway Journal – “Immigrant Story”
2021 -1000 Below Flash Prose Contest, 2nd place | Selected by Tiana Clark
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
Nimrod Journal – “Snapdragons” and other poems
2022 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, Finalist
Quarter After Eight – “Nebraska, 1981”
2020 Robert J. DeMott Short Prose Contest, 1st runner-up | Selected by Dinty W. Moore
Small Orange Journal – “Porch Light”
2021 Emerging Woman Poet Honor, honorable mention
Sweet: A Literary Confection – “Parental Advisory”
2022 Poetry Contest, 3rd place | Selected by Jessica Guzman
Longlisted, 2022 Invisible City Lit Blurred Genre Flash Contest, judged by Lynn Steger Strong
NaPoMo 2022 Semi-finalist, Iron Horse Literary Review
1st place in poetry, 2021 Iron Pen Contest, Midwest Writing Center
2nd place in poetry, 2015 Iron Pen Contest, Midwest Writing Center
Honorable mention, The Academy of American Poets Prize, Illinois Wesleyan University, 2005