Poetry

PRINT & ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

• “when my grandmother died of gangrene I wanted to call” – Bear Review 11.2, May 2025
• “Loose Floorboards” – Sprung Formal 20, May 2025
• “After my stepson’s mother tells me she is having another baby in January” – SWWIM Every Day, May 2025
• “Portrait of Complicity” – Sundog Lit, Issue 26, March 2025
• “cascarones” – Common Ground Review, fall/winter 2024
• “A Good Morning Is When You’ll Have Me For Breakfast” – Salt Hill Journal, Issue 49
• “Yielding Season” – Northwest Review, 2023 Volume 52, Issue 2, Winter 2023
• “Roaches and Jasmine” – Midway Journal, Volume 16, Issue 4, October 2022
• “the other side of the womb” and “I am thinking of feeding my ears to my family” – The Potomac Review, Issue 69, fall 2021
• “something that might make a suitable home” – New Orleans Review, Issue 47, fall 2021
• “Portrait of My Daughter at Twelve Years Old With Lice” and “Leftover Onions” – The Hunger Issue 8, June 2020
• “The Night After Our First Big Fight”- High Shelf Press Issue XVI, March 2020
• “cleaning house”, “When the Man Who Said Cooking You Supper Was Love Sends You Flowers and a Note a Year After He Rips Ginger From Your Garden”, and “The Morning I Told You I Don’t Want More Children” – Big Muddy, November 2019
• “Old Blood” and “Reality is a Darkroom” – The Arena vol. 50, 2019
• “Missing Missives” and “Undone” – The Arena vol. 49, 2018
• “Lone Mesa Campground” and “Seizing West Texas” – Sonder Midwest: Issue 1, April 2018
• “In the Morning”, “Out of Season”, “The Poet Brings Baggage”, and “Tricks of the Trade”  – The Arena vol. 48, 2017
• “The Creation” – The Arena vol. 47, 2016
• “A Heart’s Revival” – Elephant Journal, August 2014

PUBLIC READINGS

• Bear Review Issue 11.2 Issue Lanch Reading | online | June 2025
• Spring Art Walk | McNeese State University Grand Gallery | Lake Charles, Louisiana May 2025
• Muddy Water Poets: Take Five Poetry Reading | Historic City Hall Arts & Cultural Center | Lake Charles, Louisiana February 2025
• lmnl arts Fall Fest | The Domino | New Orleans, Louisiana October 2024
• lmnl arts monthly reading series | The Domino | New Orleans, Louisiana August 2024
• New Orleans Poetry Festival | lmnl arts | Writing the Body: The Intersection of Identity and Corporeality | New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2024
• C.D. Wright Women’s Writers Conference | Conway, Arkansas, November 2022
• Rooted Poetry Reading Series – A Celebration of Words | Imperial Calcasieu Museum | Lake Charles, Louisiana, May 2022
• MFA Graduate Reading | McNeese State University | Lake Charles, Louisiana, May 2021
• Art Six Feet Apart | Central School | Lake Charles, Louisiana, November 2020
• SCMLA Poetry Panel Reader | Marriot | Little Rock Arkansas, October 2019
• Dr. Gray’s Free Reading Series | Stellar Beans | Lake Charles, Louisiana, Spring 2019
• Magnolia Series Poetry Reader | Magnolia Shed | Lafayette, Louisiana, Spring 2018

NOMINATIONS

• Best of the Net; “Portrait of Complicity” nominated by Sundog Lit
• Best of the Net; “when my grandmother died of gangrene” nominated Bear Review
• The Best New Poets 2025; nominated by the editors at Sundog Lit for “Portrait of Complicity”
• The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses 2022; Pushcart Press title, nominated by editors at Midway Journal for “Roaches and Jasmine”
• The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses 2021; Pushcart Press title, nominated by editors at Potomac Review for “I am thinking of feeding my ears to my family”
• The Best New Poets 2021; nominated by Amy Fleury, Director of the McNeese M.F.A program