Publications, Readings, Nominations

PRINT & ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

• “A Good Morning Is When You’ll Have Me For Breakfast” – forthcoming in Salt Hill, Issue 49, early 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

• C.D. Wright Women’s Writers Conference | November 2022
• Rooted Poetry Reading Series – A Celebration of Words | Imperial Calcasieu Museum | Lake Charles, Louisiana, May 2022
• Decapitation and someone reaching for a vase – A Reading by the McNeese State University MFA Program | Common House | Lake Charles, Louisiana, April 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

• 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; University of Virginia Press title, produced in cooperation with Meridian, nominated by Amy Fleury, Director of the McNeese M.F.A program