AWARDS, HONORS AND PUBLICATIONS:
Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship 2021
Ohio Poet Laureate 2020-2022
Ohio Poet of the Year 2020
Athens Ohio Poet Laureate 2018-2019
BOOKS:
Alone in the House of my Heart, Terrapin Books, 2022
A Place So Deep Inside America It Can't Be Seen, Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, April 2020
-2020 Ohio Poet of the Year Award, Long list, 2020 Jacar Press Julie Suk Award
CHAPBOOK:
Serving, Revised Edition, Crisis Chronicles Press, March 2020
Runner up, Yellow Chair Review Chapbook Contest
Serving, Crisis Chronicles Press, March 2018
Ohioana Nomination:
2021 A Place So Deep Inside America It Can't Be Seen
2019 Serving
Best of the Net Nominations:
2020 Sheila-Na-Gig, Trigger Warning
2020 Infection House, Wash Your Hands Child
Pushcart Prize Nominations:
2020 Sheila-Na-Gig, Trigger Warning
2019 Lascaux Review, Serving
2019 The Boom Project, Everything Tilts
2018 Crisis Chronicles Press, Serving
2016 Gyroscope Review, Middle East Veteran's Wife
2015 A Narrow Fellow, I Knew Bad News Had Come
2021 Lascaux Prize in Poetry:
1st Place
2021 DC Life Magazine
January Featured Poet
2020 Sheila-Na-Gig online Spring Contest:
1st Place
2018-19 Visible Poetry Project:
Selected Winner (Film to be launched 2021)
2018 Still: The Journal Poetry Contest:
1st Place
2018 Hocking Hills Poetry Festival:
1st Place
2014 Hocking Hills Poetry Festival:
1st Place
2018 Lascaux Prize in Poetry:
Finalist
2018 Songs of Eretz Poetry Award:
Finalist
2017 National Federation of State Poetry Societies
BlackBerryPeach Spoken and Heard Competition:
1st Place
2016 Yellow Chair Review Chapbook Contest:
Runner Up
PUBLICATIONS:
ANTHOLOGIES:
Spread the Word, A Pandemic Open Mic Anthology, Jacar Press 2021
Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Dorothy Anderson XIV, Shepherd University, 2021
Is it Hot in Here or is it Just Me? Women Over 40 Write on Aging, Beautiful Cadaver Project, 2020
Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Crystal Wilkinson Volume XII, Shepherd University, 2020
Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Karen Sacharias Volume XI Shepherd University, 2019
The Boom Project: Voices of a Generation, Butler Books, 2019
Fearless Women, Mountain State Press 2019
Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Wiley Cash Volume X, Shepherd University, 2018
All We Can Hold, Sage Hill Press, 2016
To Unsnare Time’s Warp, Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2016
Delirious, Night Ballet Press, 2016
PUBLICATIONS:
Verse Daily, Main Street Rag, Rattle, Rise up Review, Crab Orchard Review, LA Times, Stirring, Still: The Journal, Chiron Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Poetry South, Rascal, Poetry24, Gyroscope Review, Poetry City USA, Looking at Appalachia: Call and Response, Pudding House Magazine, Yellow Chair Review, Rock and Sling, Heartland Review, Clover, A Literary Rag, Third Wednesdays, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Red Earth Review, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Stoneboat, Digital Papercut, Infection House, Califragile, Kudzu, New Verse News, Barbaric Yelp, A Narrow Fellow, Poetry X Hunger, US 1 Worksheets, Sheila-Na-Gig online, Calyx Journal, Heartwood, Delta Poetry Review, Writers Resist, Lascaux Review, Cultural Weekly, DC Life Magazine, ONE ART, Vox Populi, Cutleaf, ONE, PBS American Portrait, The NY Times, World Literature Today
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