Writing

CHAPBOOK

What Blooms in the Dark | Toad Hall Editions | 2024

POEMS

A Portfolio of Poems | Tupelo Quarterly | 2025

Tuesday in May | EcoTheo Review | Summer 2023

Lenten Benediction | Bearings Magazine | 2023

wednesday in the allergy shot clinic | Free the Verse | Issue 5 | 2023

What’s the Point? | Susurrus Magazine | Winter 2022

ode to the marigold and mauve sunset | Susurrus Magazine | Winter 2022

ANTHOLOGIES, contributing poet

Had I a Dove: Appalachian Poets on the Helene Flood | Redhawk Publications | 2025

Understory: A Full-Color Anthology for Hurricane Helene Recovery | Loblolly Press | 2025

Witness: Appalachia to Hatteras | North Carolina Poetry Society | 2023

Prayers and Blessings for Healthcare Workers | Morehouse Publishing | 2021

ESSAYS

Cosmic Slip | Whale Road Review | Winter 2023

Down to the Valley | Hippocampus Magazine | Fall 2023

Grounding Each Other Through Grief | enfleshed | Summer 2022

AWARDS & HONORS

Judge for North Carolina Poetry Society’s Travis Tuck Jordan Award, 2026

Winner of the Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize, selected by judge Maya Popa, 2025

Winner of the Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition, selected by judge Mackenzie Kozak, 2025

Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2025

Winner of The Poets Corner Chapbook Contest, selected by judge Marie Howe, 2024

Nominated for Best of Net, 2024

Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series Student Poet, 2023

@loblolly_press "Why I'm Rewilding the Slope Beside my House"
One of the 5 poems of mine selected by Maya Popa for the 2025 Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize. You can read the rest online at Tupelo Quarterly, issue 36. Honored to be part of such a smart & compassionate publication.
One of the 5 poems of mine selected for the 2025 Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize. You can read the rest of the poems at the 36th Issue of Tupelo Quarterly.
The @tupelo_quarterly 2025 poetry prize ✨️
"Had I a Dove: Appalachian Poets on the Helene Flood" reading in downtown Boone on the anniversary of the storm ❤️.
I can hardly believe I get a week to think, rest, and right in Belfast, Maine. Who knows what my vigilant parent brain will want to write when it eases into the space... Thank you @shannaghe.maine, @thepoetscornermaine, & @toadhalleditions. Tha
If you happen to be in Maine...
@enfleshed
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"Sincerely, Salamander" from the @loblolly_press zine. Proceeds benefiting @belovedasheville. 🦎 My third poem in the zine was inspired by Christian sexual repression & my love of the romance genre. So you'll have to purchase the zine
"Why I'm Rewilding the Slope Beside my House (after Major Jackson)" & 2 other poems of mine are in "Understory", a digital zine from @loblolly_press & @andrewmack_poetry supporting Western North Carolina. Get you a copy.