Poet

Publications & Prizes
Poetry manuscripts have been short- and long-listed over 55 times for publication awards including The Washington Prize, Hilary Tham Capital Collection, Richard Snyder Publication Prize, Elixir Press Poetry Prize, Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 42 Miles Press Poetry Prize, White Pine Press Poetry Prize, Lexi Rudnitsky Prize, Idaho Poetry Prize, Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Competition, Tenth Gate Prize, Slope Editions Book Prize, Codhill Press Poetry Prize, John Ciardi Poetry Prize, Wick Poetry Prize, Antivenom Poetry Prize, Crab Orchard Poetry Series Award, National Poetry Series, Robert Dana Prize for Poetry, Blue Lynx Prize, Miller Williams Poetry Prize,
Poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes by The Big Window Review, Ilya Kaminsky, Codhill Press, Signal Mountain Review, Brick Road Poetry Press, The Meadow, Peacock Journal, and The Asheville Review; and for the Best of the Net by Burningword Literary Journal and Apple Valley Review.
Finalist, Fulton County Poet Laureate, 2020
Finalist, Gulf Coast Prize in Translation for translations from Agnes Gerner’s Sus, 2019
Vi Gale Award, Hubbub Magazine, 2016