Books  

Glass Harvest. Autumn House Press. July 2016.  

Poems  

“Ghosting Aubade.” The Southeast Review. Forthcoming.  

“Hesitation Waltz.” The Southeast Review. Forthcoming.  

“Ode to My Late-30s Sex Drive.” Nashville Review. Forthcoming.  

“My Boyfriend Says NASCAR and Poetry are the Same…” Nashville Review. Forthcoming.  

“Elegy for my 36th Year.” RHINO. Forthcoming.  

“Kissing Meditation.” Birmingham Poetry Review. Forthcoming.  

“Don’t be Shallow, Vote for the Mallow.” The Heartland Review. Forthcoming.  

“First Letter to the Aliens.” Liminal. Forthcoming.  

“Ode to Everything, Exclusionary Attempt.” Exit 7. Forthcoming.  

“Ode to Everything, List Attempt.” Exit 7. Forthcoming.  

“Ode to I-57, Illinois Segment.” Exit 7. Forthcoming.  

“Laughter, Hiccups, & Yawning.” The Missouri Review Poem of the Week. May 2018. Web.  

“Starlicide.” Edge Effects. (2018) Web.  

“Ode to Avocado.” San Diego Poetry Annual. 2018.  

“Rain Meditation.” Willow Springs. 81 (2018) 11.  

“Camel Meditation.” Radar Poetry. 17 (2018) Web.  

“The Loneliness Monster.” Atticus Review. September 2017. Web.  

“Dream Sequence.” Atticus Review. September 2017. Web.  

“Dear Curiosity.” Atticus Review. September 2017. Web.  

“Theorem.” Atticus Review. September 2017. Web.  

“Morning Meditation.” Atticus Review. September 2017. Web.  

“Adolescent Meditation.” Front Porch. 35 (2017) Web.  

“Would You Rather Idealize or Recover a Lost Love.” Front Porch. 35 (2017) Web.  

“Montserrat.” South Dakota Review. 53.1 (2017) 11-13.  

“This Animal Tide.” South Dakota Review. 53.1 (2017) 14.  

“Love Illustration.” South Dakota Review. 53.1 (2017) 15.  

“Two Widows.” Verse Daily, February 3, 2017. Web.  

“Beetroot.” F(r)iction. 6 (2016) 102.  

“Ode to Fewer.” F(r)iction. 6 (2016) 103.  

“Prairie Onion.” F(r)iction. 6 (2016) 104.  

“Lunar Eclipse.” Superstition Review. 18 (2016) Web.  

“Year in Review.” The Maynard. April 2016. Web.  

“Starling Advice.” The Maynard. April 2016. Web.  

“April Meditation.” Yemassee. 23.1 (2016) 98.  

“Crush.” Yemassee. 23.1(2016) 96.  

“Autumn Thinking.” The Missouri Review Poem of the Week. March 2016. Web.  

“The White Doe.” Passages North. 37 (2016) 248.  

“Rattlesnake Master.” Baltimore Review. (Summer 2015) Web.  

“Spell for the End of Grief.” Baltimore Review. (Summer 2015) Web.  

“The Unknotting.” The Adroit Journal. 11 (2015) Web.  

“Hayloft.” Passages North. (2015) Web.  

“Last Visit.” North American Review. 299.4 (2014) 36.  

“Visitation.” Smartish Pace. 21 (2014) 107.  

“Dream of the Ark.” Coal Hill Review (2014) Web.  

“Drowning the Marigold.” Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Poetry Prize (2014) Web.  

“Nostalgia Sweepstakes.” Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Poetry Prize (2014) Web.  

“Song for Stevens.” Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Poetry Prize (2014) Web.  

“Love Poem.” Gettysburg Review. 26.3 (2013) 404-405.  

“Saturday Night Euchre.” Gettysburg Review. 26.3 (2013) 406-407.  

“Ten Walls.” Gettysburg Review. 26.3 (2013) 408-409.  

“Encomium for a Peace Lily.” New World Writing (2013) Web.  

“Winter Field.” New World Writing (2013) Web.  

“Evening Walk.” New World Writing (2013) Web.  

“Scenes from the film Cafune.” New World Writing (2013) Web.  

“Blackberry Season.” Louisiana Cultural Vistas 24.1 (2013) 77.  

“Velleity.” Louisiana Cultural Vistas 24.1 (2013) 77.  

“In Which Great Aunt Whitt Becomes the Patron Saint of Leaving.” Cimarron Review 180 (2012) 14.  

“Tadpole Season.” Cimarron Review 180 (2012) 12.  

“The Other Field.” Fourth River 8 (2011) 28.  

“Saplings.” Copper Nickel 16 (2011) 190.  

“Inevitable Attraction.” Copper Nickel 16 (2011) 187.  

“The Empty Lot.” The Hollins Critic XLVIII.1 (2011) 21.  

“The Problem of Naming.” Off Channel (2010) 15.  

“Movement of Heat.” Sycamore Review 22.1 (2010) 105.  

“Visiting.” Atlantic Review 15.2 (2009) 108.  

“Daughters are such a blessing.” Bayou 51 (2009) 62.  

“The Sting.” The Packingtown Review 1 (2009) 59.  

“The Calendar.” RATTLE 14.2 (2008) 91.  

“The Other Runner.” Quiddity 1.1 (2008) 128.  

“Visitation.” Fifth Wednesday Journal 2 (2008) 154.  

Fiction  

“The Adventures of Kiki, P.I.” Lumina Journal. (2018) Web.  

“Sideways Lavender.” Syntax and Salt. Issue 2 (2016). Web.  

“Pythagorean Theorem.” Valparaiso Fiction Review. 1.2 (2012) Web.  

“She rhymed with jump, I rhymed with rope.” Bellingham Review (2011) Web.              

Nonfiction  

“A Necessary Emptiness to Grow Into: A Review of Traci Brimhall’s Saudade.” The Adroit Journal. (2018) Web.  

“Review of Vasectomania by Matthew Guenette.” Pleiades Book Review. 15.2 (2018) 35-36.  

“Review of Set to Music a Wildfire by Ruth Awad.” The Collagist. (2018) Web.  

“Field Notes to Guide to the Exhibit by Lisa Allen Ortiz.” The Bind. (2017) Web.  

“Review of lore by Davis McCombs.” The Collagist. (2017) Web.  

“Singing Towards Wholeness: A Review of Rajiv Mohabir’s The Taxidermist’s Cut.” Gravel Magazine. (2017). Web.  

“Ishmael Cliffsnotes Summary & Discussion.” Cliffsnotes.com (2012)  

“Speak Cliffsnotes Summary & Discussion.” Cliffsnotes.com (2012)  

“The Glass Castle Cliffsnotes Summary & Discussion.” Cliffsnotes.com (2011)  

“A Thousand Splendid Suns Cliffsnotes Summary & Discussion.” Cliffsnotes.com (2011)  

“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Cliffsnotes.com (2011)

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March 2018, Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, FL,  Moderator and Organizer, “My Speaker, Myself: Navigating Persona and Identity in Feminist Poetry”  

November 2017, C.D. Wright Women Writers Conference University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR, Moderator and Organizer, “Lilith of the South: Creative Reading by Women Writing in, from, and of the South”  

April 2017, Beyond Representation: Creative & Critical Practice in the Environmental Humanities at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Moderator, “Cecily Parks Reading”  

February 2015, Virginia Literacy Foundation Conference, Richmond VA, Presenter, “Tutor Recruitment and Retention Strategies”  

March 2010, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Graduate Conference in Literature and Rhetoric/Composition, Panel Participant, “Poet as Instigator”  

March 2009, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Graduate Conference in Literature and Rhetoric/Composition, Panel Participant, “Life and Landscapes: The Influence of Region on Poetry”

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North Street Collective Artist Residency (2018)  

Honorable Mention, Lumina Speculative Fiction Contest (2018)  

Finalist, Missouri Review Editors Prize (2017)  

Faculty Development Grant, Middle Tennessee State University (2016, 2017)  

Pushcart Nominations, “Prairie Onion,” “The Ancestors,” and “Inept Koan” (2016)  

Betty Gabehart Prize, Kentucky Women Writers Conference (2016)  

John Anson Kittredge Fund Recipient (2016)  

Best of the Net Nomination, “Hayloft” (2015)  

Key West Literary Seminar Scholarship (2015)  

Pushcart Nomination, “First Visitation” and “Dream of the Ark” (2014)  

Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Poetry Prize (2013)  

Smartish Pace Beullah Rose Prize (2013)  

Tennessee Williams Literary Festival Poetry Prize (2012)  

Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award – Honorable Mention (2012)  

Ruth Lilly Fellowship Finalist (2011)  

Faculty and Staff Professional Opportunities Fund Award, University of Wisconsin-Parkside (2010, 2011, 2013)  

Vermont Studio Center Fellowship (2011)  

Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest – Honorable Mention (2010)  

Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Prize – 1st Place (2010) Southern Illinois University  

Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Prize – 1st Place (2009) Southern Illinois University  

RATTLE poetry contest – Honorable Mention (2008)  

Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Prize – 2nd Place (2008) Southern Illinois University  

Master’s Fellowship (2007-2008) Southern Illinois University  

Mary Stuart Rogers Scholar (2003-2004) Lewis and Clark College  

Olive Chacey Kuehn & Alfred L. Kuehn Scholar (2001-2002) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign  

Raymond Seng Scholarship (2001-2002) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign  

James Scholar (1998-2002) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign  

Judith Ikenberry Award for the Arts (2001) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign  

Delmar G. Cooke Scholarship (2000) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign  

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