| poetry |

| prose |

  • “Guiding Us through Grief: With Gratitude for Edward Hirsch and His Expansive Body of Work” — Chapter 16

  • Alien Miss: Poems by Carlina Duan” — Nashville Review

  • “Reaching for Joy: Interview with Toi Derricotte” — Chapter 16

  • “Mythmaker” — Hyphen Magazine

  • “Call Your Body Home: Interview with Nickole Brown” — Nashville Review

  • A Fortune for Your Disaster: Poems by Hanif Abdurraqib” — Nashville Review

  • “Appointed Rounds: Essays by Michael McFee” — Nashville Review

| features |

| pleasant surprises |

  • 2023 Unbound Book Festival Emerging Poet Award

  • Finalist, 2022-2023 Jake Adam York Prize

  • Recipient, 2022 Summer Residency, Storyknife Writers Retreat

  • 2021 Kathryn Sedberry Poetry Prize, Vanderbilt University

  • Scholarship Recipient, 2021 Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices

  • 2021 Academy of American Poets Prize, Vanderbilt University (“Elegizing,” selected by Tiana Clark)

  • 2021 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Poetry Contest (“Meditations on the Barely Spoken,” selected by Paisley Rekdal)

    • Watch the recorded reading here

  • Scholarship Recipient, 2020 Tin House Virtual Craft Intensive Workshop

  • 2020 Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award, Center for Woman Writers (“From the River,” selected by Alison Stine)

  • Scholarship Recipient, 2019 Summer Residency, Sundress Academy for the Arts

  • 2013 Ann Burrus/Academy of American Poets Prize, UNC-Chapel Hill

  • 2012 Blanche Armfield Prize for Poetry, UNC-Chapel Hill

  • 2009 Thomas Wolfe Scholarship Recipient, UNC-Chapel Hill