publications

2025 Poetry Contest Grand Prize Winner - The Mississippi Review

2025 Winter Poetry Contest Winner - Sad Girl Diaries

2026 Poetry Contest Runner-up - Black Warrior Review

December Magazine’s 2025 Marvin Bell Poetry Prize - Finalist

2025 Plentitudes Prizes in Poetry - Finalist

2026 ONLYPOEMS Poet of the Year Award - Shortlist

contests

Nominated for Pushcart Prize 2026 - The Mississippi Review

Nominated for Best Microfiction 2024 - Thread

Nominated for Best Microfiction 2025 - Thread

nominations

The Mississippi Review - As Seed, So Too, Sleep
(2025 Poetry Contest Grand Prize Winner, Pushcart Nomination)

Palette Poetry - weedy seadragons

The Notre Dame Review - By the Bone (fiction)

The London Magazine - welcome wagon

New Ohio Review - i am out with gloves, foraging for myself

Pinch Journal on my flight home they make an announcement, how easy, to take the lungs for granted

Sad Girl Diaries - syconium
(2025 Sad Girl Diaries Winter Poetry Contest 1st Place Winner)

ANMLY - God Himself did make us

Sheila-Na-Gig - i am attempting to babyproof when i hear of another school shooting

Black Warrior Review - my doctor tells me to stimulate my vagus nerve
(2025 BWR Poetry Contest Runner-up)

Door is a Jar - pavement bird, hatching, the way of letting go

ONE ART - ’six years sober’ (haiku)

Troublemaker Firestarter - gravity, the ham sandwich theory

Contemporary Verse 2 - elegy for the florid, while hiking, my mother refuses to be captured

Pile Press - iterations, dendrochronology

Gone Lawn - delirium tremens, heartcandy

Evening Street Press - hereditary

Burningword Literary Journal - needle blight

Querencia Press - shock front

Constellations - false letter language

Moss Puppy - the dam

Empyrean - the carousers curse, escape artist, seventeen, this week ends with a weekend

Common Threads 2023 - the luxury of silence

Inscape Magazine - palliate, cravings

Of Rust and Glass - better to go to waste, than to your waste

North Dakota Quarterly - fireflies in michigan, my grandmother-in-law sends me a video about nanobots in soda

Thread - adventurer, where the mantis shrimp are omniscient, dear writer

HDNL MAG - the act of splintering

The Raven Review - i sleep through another lunar eclipse

Impossible Task - nest, the miracle of life and loss, i miscarried so we made carbonara, revisit, thanks, i think. —a sonnet, we leave the past in knots

La Bella Journeys - cross to bear

Willows Wept - marcescence, from hand to sea

Words & Whispers - the brightest sunsets

Ghost City Review - enduring

Stirring - bedbloat

Wise Owl - coping

Twelve Mile - photographic memory

poetry publications