AWARDS

2024 CMA National Book Awards - 2nd Place for “Best Poetry Book”

2023 CMA National Book Awards - 3rd Place Medal for “Best Novel”

2019 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize - Finalist

2019 Doris Betts Fiction Prize - Finalist

2018 Fly South Fiction Prize and President’s Favorite - Winner

2016 Penelope Niven Award for Excellence in Writing - Winner

 


PUBLICATIONS - Poetry & Fiction

“Quietly Waiting for Catastrophe” - poem - Salvation South, November, 2024

“Clean” - poem - Neologism Poetry Journal, Vol. 89, Fall, 2024

“Sonnet” and “Calm” - poems - Eunoia Review, November, 2024

“Drive Home - poem - Maudlin House Magazine, October, 2024

“Pastoralia” - Short Story - Maudlin House Magazine, July, 2023

“Prairie My Heart” & “In Praise of What is Gone” - poems - Salvation South, Summer 2023

“All the Twilight Country” - poem - Wildroof Journal #20, May, 2023

“Apples / First Snow” - poems - Two Hawks Quarterly, Spring 2023

“July, Georgia” - poem - Eunoia Review

“Sunriser / Cicada / Lightness / Oblivion / Trees - Five Poems” - Sterling Clack Clack

“Don’t Let That Sunshine Fool You” - Short Story - Revolution John Magazine

“Sardines” - poem - Spectra Poets

“Bloodlines” - poem - Pangyrus Magazine

“Good Friday” and “Pastoral” - poems - The Holon Project

“Tongueless” - poem - Kingfisher Poetry

“The Orchard” - Short Story - Underwood Literary Magazine

“Small Planes” - Short Story - Parhelion Literary Magazine

"The Sound of Trees" - Short Story - Empty Sink Magazine

"At an Alternative Bar where Tattoos Speak Louder Than We Do" - poem - Yellow Chair Review

"Waiting" - Short Story - Prime Number Magazine

"It Was a Goldfinch" - Short Story - Flash Fiction Magazine

"Parade" - Short Story - Flash Fiction Magazine

"No One's Ever Missing" - Short Story - Flash Fiction Magazine

"Three Poems" - Belle Reve Review

"Collected Poems" - UnbrokenJournal

“Everything is Dead and Breathing” - Revolution John Magazine

"Two Poems" - Change Seven Magazine

"China House" - GERM Magazine

"Convertibles" - Short Story - Face Paint Magazine

"Punch" - Face Paint Magazine

"Brain Damage" - Flash Fiction Magazine

"Forgive Me Nashville" - Short Story - Scalawag Magazine

"Gnaw" - Brilliant Flash Fiction

 

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