Publications & Awards

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Publications

2024 - Pantoum for the Fourth Trimester - trampset
2024 - Rule of the People - Black Stone / White Stone
2021 - How Affirmations Ground Me in Baking and Parenting - Catapult Magazine
2020 - A  Review of Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America - Literary Mama
2019 - On Randon Billings Noble’s Be with Me Always - Kenyon Review Online
2019 - A Review of Lyz Lenz’s God Land - Brevity Magazine
2018 - What Happened on June 21? - Essay Daily
2018 - Finding My Way Back to the Beginning - SheLoves Magazine
2018 - Swallows of Capistrano - Under the Gum Tree
2015 - Dancing Partners - The Wayne Literary Review
2013 - Jaundice - The Wayne Literary Review

Honors & Awards
2022 - Ekphrasis Poetry Award - 1st Place for “Anne and Billy”
2022 - Nominated by my local agency for the Better Together award from the MRM Global Honors Program
2021 - Side Show Award - Bronze for “How Affirmations Ground Me in Baking and Parenting”
2016 - Tompkins Award - 2nd Place for "Night Side of Life"
2015 - Christopher T. Leland Endowed Scholarship for Creative Writing
2013 - Tompkins Award - 1st Place for "Sappho's Song"

Speaking Engagements
2023 - MRM Subject Matter Expert presentation: “Erasure Poetry as Creative Practice”
2019 - MRM Subject Matter Expert presentation: “Literary Citizenship: Important Community-Mindedness or a Failed Economic System for Writers?”
2014 - PCA/ACA National Conference for the paper "Male Homosocial Bonding and Women of Silence in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"