News

Feb 23, 2026 - My chapbook, The Immortality of the Crab, is a finalist for the 2026 - 2027 chapbook series from Glass Poetry Press.

Feb 13, 2026 - Look out for new poems in forthcoming editions of AGNI, Cola Literary Review, Columbia Journal, Jet Fuel Review, The Meadow, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Passages North, Permafrost, Plume, Sho Poetry Journal, Southern Indiana Review, The Spectacle, and South Dakota Review!‍ ‍

Oct 10, 2025 - My chapbook, Good Things Are Happening, has won the Laurel Review Midwest Chapbook Contest. It should be published in Spring, 2026.

Sep 29, 2025 - My manuscript, King For a Day, was a finalist for the Akron Poetry Prize.

Sep 12, 2025 - My manuscript, King For a Day, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. See the list of winners and other finalists here.

Sep 3, 2025 - My chapbook, The Immortality of the Crab, was a finalist for this year’s Chapbook Prize from Two Sylvias Press.

Aug 20, 2025 - I have two new poems in the most recent issues of Gulf Coast and Alaska Quarterly Review.

Feb 25, 2025 - My poem, “Nobody Move Or This Guy Gets It,” is up on Missouri Review as poem of the week.

Jan 14, 2025 - Thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts, who have awarded me a 2025 literature fellowship! See the full list of fellows here.

Oct 18, 2024 - My chapbook, The Immortality Of The Crab, was selected as a finalist for the Omnidawn Chapbook Prize. Thanks to the editors. Look out for Joan Naviyuk Kane’s winning chapbook from Omnidawn.

Sep 23, 2024 - My manuscript, Other Things I Can’t Remember, has been selected as runner-up for the Donald Hall Prize For Poetry. Look out for the winning manuscript by Samyak Shertok from University of Pittsburgh Press in 2025. Read the announcement here.

Sep 10, 2024 - My manuscript, Other Things I Can’t Remember, is a finalist for this year’s Donald Hall Prize from AWP

Aug 23, 2024 - My poem, “I Would Like To Step Out Of My Heart And Go Walking Beneath The Enormous Sky” has been nominated for Best Of The Net by Pacifica Literary Review!

Aug 3, 2024 - Thanks to the editors of Airlie Press for selecting my manuscript, Unconditional Endorsement Of The Future, as a finalist for this year’s Airlie Prize!

Nov 27, 2023 - Thrush Poetry Journal has nominated my poem, “A Place You Once Lived,” for a Pushcart Prize. Information here.

Nov 20, 2023 - Thanks to the editors of American Literary Review for including a new poem in their most recent issue.

Nov 09, 2023 - I have a new poem featured in Southeast Review’s most recent issue. Check it out here.

Nov 03, 2023 - Thanks to Sonora Review for featuring two of my poems.

Oct 30, 2023 - The Spring, 2023 issue of Northwest Review was just released, and features my poem “The Summer of Beetles.” Thanks to the editors!

Oct 20, 2023 - Thanks to the editors of Variant Literature for including my poem, "Crowded Drive-thru At 3 In The Morning" in their sixteenth issue.

Sep 29, 2023 - Thanks to the editors of Two Sylvias Press for naming my chapbook, We’ve Got To Get Through This Life Somehow, as a finalist for their chapbook Prize!

Sep 28, 2023 - My full-length collection, Unconditional Endorsement Of The Future, was a finalist for the 2023 Akron Poetry Prize! Read the full announcement here

Aug 25, 2023 - Look for new poems forthcoming over the next several months in:

  1. Bennington Review

  2. The Laurel Review

  3. Northwest Review

  4. Under a Warm Green Linden

  5. Sonora Review

  6. American Literary Review

  7. Southeast Review

Nov 9, 2022 - Pushcart prize nomination from The Missouri Review for "There Are Too Many Holes In The Dam But Not Enough Fingers"

Sep 12, 2022 - My chapbook, As Below So Below, was a finalist for the 2022 Chapbook Prize from Two Sylvias Press (judge: Diane Seuss).

Feb 4, 2022 - I was a finalist for Frontier Poetry’s 2021 Industry Prize

Dec 15, 2021 - My chapbook, Sixteen Stories, was selected as a winner of the 2021 Flume Press Chapbook Contest!

May 18, 2021 - My debut full-length collection was a semi-finalist for the 2021 Berkshire Prize from Tupelo Press!

August 24, 2017 - My debut full-length collection, Ghosts Our Days Become, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series.