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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”

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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

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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

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