Chapbooks:
The Shedding Before the Swell (dancing girl press, 2018)
Next to Everything that is Breakable (Finishing Line Press, 2017)
Published/Forthcoming Poems & Essays:
2023
“Constructing the Damage” Surging Tide. (Reprinted). February.
2022
“Constructing the Damage,” “I Know Earth is a Woman” Defunct Mag. December.
“Sombremesa” AAWP: Meniscus Literary Journal. November.
“Whatever Pulls from a Body” Showcase. September.
“Suspension” Variant Lit. July.
“Ashed” Eco-Justice for All! Poetry Confronts Climate Catastrophe zine. June.
“Last Harvest” SWWIM. May.
“Portrait of My Father as Tree Rings,” Parentheses Journal. May.
“But the Light-” The Elevation Review. April.
“A Study on Descending,” “Calling the Thaw” West Trade Review. March.
“To the Limit” Coastal Shelf. March. *Finalist for the Ceiling 200 contest.
“After the Diagnosis” Stonecoast Review. February.
“Shelf Life” Second Chance Lit. January.
2021
“In My Thirties I’m Still Expecting,” “First Snowfall at Gullkistan” Fahmidan Journal. December 2021.
“Revisiting Iceland,” “Thrush” Sheila-Na-Gig. December 2021.
“Kill Your Darlings” SoFloPoJo. November 2021. *Nominated for Best of the Net
“Navigating the Diagnosis” Months to Years. October 2021.
“[i should have always stayed flying]” Eastern Iowa Review. October 2021. *Nominated for Best of the Net
“The One in Which I Try to Escape My Own Rage” Sledgehammer Lit. September 2021.
“If You”re Asking Why I’m Leaving,””Etymology of a Middle Name,” “Show Me How to Trace This,” reprinted. iamb. September 2021.
“What Lives Beneath the Buried” Capsule Stories. (Nonfiction.) September 2021. *Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
“River Reverie” Tipton Poetry Journal. Brick Street Poetry Anthology. August 2021.
“Tucked” Serotonin. August 2021.
“Self Portrait as Origami,” “Divinity (How to Write the Body)” The Mark Literary Review. August 2021.
“Still Any Sky” Interstellar Literary Review. June 2021.
“Thrifting With Her,” “Antidepressants for Breakfast” CP Quarterly. June 2021.
“Islandia” Amethyst Review. June 2021.
“How I Knew You, Dublin” Studi Irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies. June 2021.
“Saccharimetry” Rejection Letters. June 2021.
“Etymology of a Middle Name” Kissing Dynamite. May 2021.
“The Night After the Procedure” Okay Donkey. May 2021.
“We Thought We Were Weightless,” “Rocked” Levee Magazine. April 2021.
“All the Missing Places,” “blaze,” “Small, Sober” Anti-Heroin Chic. April 2021.
“Rewriting the Suicide Note” The Lumiere Review. March 2021. *Finalist for the 2021 Writing Contest. *Nominated for Best of the Net
“Hinged,” “When Men Ask Me Why I Am Traveling Alone,” and “Tuesday at Baum Grove” (reprinted). Sh!t Men Say to Me: A Poetry Anthology in Response to Toxic Masculinity. March 2021.
“new dosage” Versification. March 2021.
“Until” The Poiesis Review. March 2021. *Winner of the Poetry Prompt Contest
“Grief Animal,” “Hues of Havana” ONE ART. February 2021.
“Life in Still Greens” Trouvaille Review. February 2021.
“Say it With Your Chest” HOBART. (Nonfiction.) February 2021.
“Step by Step” Red Eft Review. February 2021.
“Portrait of My Mother’s Youth,” “Reading Your Book, I Question What’s Next” FEED. February 2021.
2020
“Chromatic” Dostoyevsky Wannabe Cities: The Pittsburgh Anthology.
“I’m Writing Spring” dreams walking.
“The One in Which Pain is a Seed I Swallow Whole” Lucky Jefferson. December 2020.
“Burst” Reunion: The Dallas Review. December 2020. *Nominated for Best of the Net
“On Having to Explain My Silence,” “The Return,” “Pantoum for Presque Isle” Great Lakes Review. December 2020.
“Show Me How to Trace This” Poem of the Week- Sampsonia Way. December 2020.
“Melt” Multiplicity Magazine. November 2020.
“Daily Hunt” The Nasiona. October 2020. * 2nd Place for The Nasiona Poetry Tournament
“in denver” dreams walking. September 2020.
“The Almost,” “Lost in a Body”* Emerge Literary Journal. September 2020. *Nominated for Best of the Net
“Redbird” Not Very Quiet. September 2020.
“Letter to Loneliness” Dear Loneliness Project, EX/POST Mag. September 2020.
“There is No Way to Write About Beyoncé” The Daily Drunk Magazine. August 2020.
“My Uber Driver Asks Me if I’m in Love,” “10 Seasons of Drinking” The Daily Drunk Magazine. July 2020.
“Untitled” Neutral Spaces- Concrete. April 2020.
“Inside the Den” Portland Review. June 2020.
“Crystalline” Poet Lore. June 2020.
“Good Girl” (Reprinted). Crack the Spine- The Year Anthology. May 2020.
“October 4th,” “Life is Still a Baja Blast” Taco Bell Quarterly. February 2020.
“Finding My Voice on the Emerald Isle” Pink Pangea. January 2020.
“Neon Woman” Pretty Owl Poetry. January 2020.
2019 & Earlier
“Naming Abuse” For Women Who Roar e-Book. December 2019.
“Begin Again” Pennsylvania’s Best Emerging Poets. December 2019.
“Monologue of the Woman Dreamer,” “Redbird,” “Surrounded by What Bleeds,” “The Poem I Am Trying to Write” Writing in A Woman’s Voice. September 2019.
“Good Girl,” “The Delivery” Pink Panther Magazine. September 2019.
“Before the Swell” After Happy Hour Review. December 2018.
“Road Maps” (Reprinted) Pittsburgh Poetry Houses. October 2018.
“Sending My Brother the Sky” Ink in Thirds. September 2018.
“Splitting the Family Tree,” “A Lesson in Direction” The Laurel Review. August 2018.
“Confessions from Hwy 76,” “Giving Up These Ghosts” “Rescue” Cabildo Quarterly. April 2018.
“Gauging Time” Fearsome Critters: A Millennial Arts Journal. April 2018.
“How,” “The Thick of It” Voices from the Attic Vol. XXIII/Carlow University Press. October 2017.
“Picking Pennies,” “Siempre” Sigma Tau Delta Alumni Epsilon Journal. October 2017.
“Touched by Cusco,” Pink Pangea September 2017.
“Sixteen” Broad River Review. August 2017.
“The Foundation,” “Afterbirth,” “Burning,” “Road Maps,” “Oceans of Her Own” Avatar Review. July 2017.
“They Told Me” Coldnoon. June 2017.
“Remember When” Amaryllis. May 2017.
“Mathematics” Rune. May 2017.
“Portrait of Your Grandfather, Dying” Uppagus. May 2017.
“72 Hours in the Windy City” Allegory Ridge. April 2017.
“Spring Beast,” “Sex in the Bedroom of a Childhood Home” Rat’s Ass Review. April 2017.
“Beating” Moledro Magazine. March 2017.
“Made with Love,” “Last Night Awake in Bed,” “Say It” Eunoia Review. March 2017.
“French Creek Water Trail,” “Gallery,” “Home,” “Passport” VerseWrights. February 2017.
“If You’re Asking Why I’m Leaving” Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Issue Five. February 2017.
“Truth be Told, It’s Inevitable” One Sentence Poems. January 2017.
“Saved,” “Formula” Voices from the Attic Vol. XXII/Carlow University Press. October 2016.
Three pieces. Odyssey Online. September 2016.
Two pieces. Thought Catalog. August 2016.
“All Safeties Off” Pittsburgh City Paper. May 2016.
“Tuesday at Baum Grove” Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Issue Two. March 2016.
“Salt” Construction Magazine. February 2016.
“The Mark I Left” Longridge Review. January 2016.
“Current” Scrawl. 2010.
“Precipitation of Thought” Scrawl. 2009.
“Distortion” The Blue Route. 2008.
Honors, Awards, and Achievements:
September 2022- Poem “Kill Your Darlings” was nominated for Best of the Net
September 2022- Poem “[i should have always stayed flying]” was nominated for Best of the Net
December 2021- Nonfiction piece “What Lives Beneath the Buried” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize
August 2021- Poem “Rewriting the Suicide Note” was nominated for Best of the Net
August 2021- Poem “To the Limit” was a finalist in the Coastal Shelf Ceiling 200 Contest
July 2021- Poem “Lost in a Body” was nominated for Best of the Net
July 2021- Poem “Burst” was nominated for Best of the Net
May 2021- Awarded Poetry Fellowship for Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing
March 2021- Longlisted for The BIFFY50 Microfiction Competition
March 2021- 1st Place Winner of The Poiesis Review Poetry Prompt Contest
March 2021– Finalist in The Lumiere Review Writing Contest (Poetry)
December 2020– Awarded Scholarship from Murphy Writing of Stockton University for 2021 Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway
November 2020– Residency awarded for 2021 from Arteles Center for Creative Arts, Finland
November 2020– Residency awarded for 2021 from Gullkistan Center, Iceland
November 2020– Scholarship from Murphy Writing at Stockton University
October 2020– Finalist (2nd place) The Nasiona Poetry Tournament
March 2019– 2nd Place in Creative Paper (Poetry) at the Sigma Tau Delta International English Convention
December 2018– Lifelong Deltan Scholarship, Alumni Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta
March 2018– 2nd Place in Creative Paper (Poetry) at the Sigma Tau Delta International English Convention
September 2017– Finalist, Enchanted Travels Travel Writing Award
August 2017– Shortlisted for the 2017 I Must Be Off! Travel Writing Award
March 2017– 1st Place in Creative Paper (Poetry) & Honorable Mention for Creative Paper (Poetry) on the Common Reader Theme for Alumni at the Sigma Tau Delta International English Convention
March 2016– 1st Place in Creative Paper (Poetry) for Alumni at the Sigma Tau Delta International English Convention
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