Poet, Fiction Writer
Publications & Prizes
Fiction
Books:
Close to a Flame (Cornerstone Press, 2025)
, The Hound of Thornfield High (Conquest Publishing, 2024)
, Master of Arts (Scantic Books, 2022)
, Skinny Vanilla Crisis (Atmosphere Press, 2020)
Poetry
Chapbooks:
Reader, To Tell You All: Found Poems in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (Dancing Girl Press, 2023)
, Three Stars (Ghost City Press, 2021)
, Porch Light to the Longshoreman (Finishing Line Press, 2019)
, Induction: poems for my new daughter by (Finishing Line Press, 2018)
Prizes won:
Winner of the 2025 Etching's Press novella contest for Incident at Twin Lakes Resort.
Finalist for the Woodrow Hall Top Shelf Award (for Bonfires & Other Vigils), 2024.
Winner of the 2020 Celery City Chapbook Contest (Friends of Poetry, Kalamazoo, Michigan) for the chapbook, So What to Say to a Bird?
Winner of the Michigan State University Jim Cash Awards for Creative Writing (2005): Fiction (1st place); Poetry (1st place).
Longlisted for The Fugere Book Prize for Finely Crafted Novellas, Regal House Publishing, 2023.
Longlisted for the Nervous Ghost Press Book Prize (Poetry), 2023.
Personal Favorites
More Information
Gives readings:
Yes
Travels for readings:
Yes
Identifies as:
American
Prefers to work with:
Any
Born in:
Midland, Michigan
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Last update: May 01, 2025