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Selected works 


Poetry 

Sixth Finch, "Art Monster," forthcoming

Ploughshares, "The Channeler:," forthcoming 

Boulevard, "Long before the girls became adults," forthcoming 


AGNI, "I Tried Again to Carve the Deer Out of the Sonnet" and "Glaucidium gnoma," forthcoming

Tupelo Press, "Milk House", Writes of Spring Anthology, forthcoming 

Florida Review, "Snowbird" & "As if I Were a Rock or a Ship Interested in Eclipses & Migrations & Crevasses", forthcoming


Willow Springs, "Salmonberry Road," forthcoming 

Rust & Moth, "What if by Sheer Will of Rhythm I was to Become Sex Again?" forthcoming

Sugar House Review, "Beds," forthcoming

The Shore, "Luscus," forthcoming  


New Letters, "The Night Has an Edge Where it is Still Pale" and "Marshlands: I Wander Thee," Vol. 92, nos. 1 & 2​

Salt Hill Journal, "In the Kitchen: Parted," Issue 55

Redivider, "Inhabit," Issue 23.2

Quarterly West, "Farmstand in Freestone, First Rains" 

Hunger Mountain, "Boar Skull on Bookshelf in September," Issue No. 33

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wildness, "Craft," Issue No. 40


ZYZZYVA, "Climacteric," Issue 131 

Crab Creek Review, "Sweep the Field," Fall Issue, 2025

Midway Journal, Agricultural Death Poem

Passages North,  "A Note on Sex and Death on the Beach," Recipient of the Neutrino Short-Short Prize, read on Voicemail Poems


ANMLY, "WOOD THRUSH AS GHOST //AS TEXT//AS DIAGNOSIS//AS JOURNAL//AS ERASURE//AS POEM//AS REDDIT FORUM//AS HAIBUN//AS LIST//"

Cherry Tree, Issue 11, "The Eating Elegy"

Witness Magazine, "The Problem I am Having is that Dying can be So Loud with Death So Quiet, Runner-up of the 2023 Literary Awards

Lake Effect, Volume 28, "Amethyst Deceiver"

Cream City Review, Issue 48.1, "Townspeople"

Rust & Moth, "My Grandmother was Once a Girl" 

Muzzle Magazine
, "The Old Folks Told Me" (audio)

Southern Florida Poetry Journal, Issue #29, "By the Rabbit Hutch: A Tub" and "After the Surgery the Garden Bruised" (audio)


Up the Stair Case Quarterly, Two Poems 

Northwest Review, "Oh Please" 

The Shore, "Night Study" 

Jet Fuel Review, "The Coldening," Nominated for Best of the Net and featured on Poetry Daily

Driftwood Press, "The Atlas of Indescribable Dead Things," Nominated for Best of the Net

Permafrost,  Issue 42.2, "When You Go to Bed with the Shape of Nabokov’s Mouth," Nominated for a Pushcart Prize

Fatal Flaw, "How the World Dearly Loves a Cage,"​ Nominated for a Pushcart Prize

Under a Warm Green Linden Press, "The History of Rat King"

Action, Spectacle, "The History of Taxidermy," "I am Having a Dream Diane Seuss is Giving Me an Abortion," and "My Tongue a Perfect Fit"

StoneCoast Review, "The Art of It" 
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Newfound, "The Moth Teachings" 

Harbor Review, "My Father the Race Car Photographer and My Husband the Flower Painter"

Pithead Chapel, "The History of Flowers that Eat Meat" 

Passengers Journal, "The History of Spindle Cells"

Gone Lawn, "Sick like a"; "I Took a Thousand Pictures of You"; "Frog Baroque for a Girl King" 

Pithead Chapel, "The Fox Learns a Word" 

Pithead Chapel, "I am a Dead Wolf Talking to Boys" 

The Normal School, "The Fish as Healer​"

Driftwood Press, "Pretty in Pink" 

Bear Review, "The Child"

Literary Mama, "Bird Note Poem Winter Roadside" 

Wild Roof Journal, "The Everlasting Eulogy of Lush" 

Stone Circle Review, "When I Said you are Dead to Me, What I Meant is that I Love You"

RiverTeeth, "The Hart" 

Cathexis Northwest Press, "In the Beginning There was Eagle Sex" 

River Heron Review, "Birdhouse" 
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Passages North, "The History of Glaciers"

Ghost City Press, "The Home of Seamstress" 

Bird Coat Quarterly, "The History of Brother"; "The History of Fire and Black Eyes"

The Inflectionist Review, "Cetology" 

Unbroken, "I Have Asked for a Great Space to See Many Things" 
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MAYDAY, "The History of a Window Overlooking the Wetlands"

Antiphony, "Fox, Fox, Fox"

Scavengers Lit, "Know the Origins of my Eat," Best of the Net Nomination
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Sho Poetry Journal, "Fifty-One"

Ballast Poetry Journal, "West County"


$ Poetry is Currency, "When We Were Children We Believed the Night Herons Moving Across the Marsh Were Versions of Ourselves" and "US-395" 

Fiction & Flash

Southern Humanities Review, "Never Love a Wild Thing", Nominated for Best of the Net
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Atticus Review,  "Coyote Story," Nominated for a Pushcart Prize

Trampset, "Kings of the Hollowed-Out" 

Heavy Feather Review,  "Call Me Kitty"  

Lunch Ticket, "How to Skin a Fox"

Parhelion Literary Magazine, "Switchblade Serenade" Nominated for a Pushcart by Quarter Press

Fatal Flaw, "The Sing Song Arch of Spine," Nominated for Best Small Fictions

3Elements Review, "Her Name was Amy," Nominated for Best of the Net 
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Barren Magazine, "The Burden," Editor's Pick, Issue 19

BULL, "Sylvia" 
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Outskirts Literary Journal, "Free Kittens"

Creative Non-fiction

​The Account Magazine, "The Falcon's Cry," Finalist for Best of the Net

The Portland Review, "Drive Me Home"

Lunch Ticket, "In My Arms"

Superstition Review, "Dressing Foxes" (audio available)

​Cleaver Magazine, "Tell Me how to Build an Audience while You Move Your Arms and Legs like Serpents and Scarves in the Dark of the Cattle Ranch" 

Variant Lit, "How to Rescue a Bobcat" 

Split Rock Review, "A Picture of a Fox" 
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Split Rock Review, "Writing Lightly, The Metabolic Rate of a Story" Craft Essay ​

AWArds


Recipient of the following Awards, Grants, and Juried Workshops: 

Kenyon Review’s Juried Workshop in Poetry (Summer, 2023), taught and mentored by Tina Cane (Poet Laureate of Rhode Island) and Anthony Cody (American Book Award, Whiting Award)

Tusculum Review Chapbook Prize for “The Mating Calls //of the// Specter”, 2023, selected by Justin Phillip Reed (National Book Award, Lambda Award)

MAYDAY Chapbook Prize, 2024

Gold Medal, Independent Publishing Book Award, Outstanding Design, for “Tiger Paw, Tiger Paw, Knife, Knife,” 2023

Neutrino Award, Passages North, 2022, judged by jj peña

ArtSurround Cohort Grant, 2022, Creative Sonoma

Witness Literary Awards for Poetry, Witness Magazine, 2nd Place, 2023, judged by Nabila Lovelace 

Witness Literary Awards for Poetry, Witness Magazine, Finalist, 2026

Best of the Net, The Falcon's Cry, The Account, Finalist, 2020

Diagram's Chapbook Contest, Finalist, 2021

MAYDAY's Chapbook Contest, Finalist, 2022

​Two Sylvia’s Press, Chapbook Prize, Finalist, 2023 & 2024
  • Welcome
  • Selected Works
  • Books
  • Books & Barns
  • Tongue of the Mushroom
  • Changing Bodies, Changing Landscapes
  • About
  • The Dream Project