Come hear me read with other amazing writers, including Diamond Forde, and check out the corresponding art exhibit from local visual artists this Saturday, May 23rd, from 5-8PM at Woman Made Gallery. If you can’t make it on Saturday, feel free to go check out the exhibit in Chicago through June 20th. For more information, go to Off the Page: Poetry Reimagined.

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• Listen to Painted Bride Quarterly Slush Pile Podcast where they discuss three of my poems here! You can also read the poems and follow along at this website.
• “never loved anything more than I loved picking something apart” – Birdcoat Quarterly (Forthcoming)
• “Does a Pond Ever Become an Ocean?” – Off the Page – Issue 2: Bodies Luminous (Forthcoming)
• “After the Move” – Fugue
• “For so long the desire to be brand spanking new” – Southeast Review
• “I wish I was a blue crab losing my claws” – The McNeese Review
• “Girl of the Year™” – Bicoastal Review
• “Love Affair with a Sprinkler” and “Once I Lived in a Town” – Painted Bride Quarterly
• “How much longer? For a hot minute, child“ – Hayden’s Ferry Review
• “A Tornado Touches Down in My Hometown” – The Core Review
• “When I Left the South” – Thimble Literary Magazine (nominated for Pushcart Prize)
• “Midwesterners Ask Where I’m From” – Delta Poetry Review
• “If You Claim to Keep Secrets” – Fruitslice
• Three Sisters Award for Poetry: “Safe to Eat” – NELLE Literary Journal – 2025
• “Rapture”; “Erosion”; “Illinoise: The Musical” – Mulberry Literary
• “Embrace” – North American Review
• “I’ve Left” – L I M I N A L . S P A C E S
• “Buoyancy” – Making Waves 2024
• “Exposure” – Milk Press (best viewed on computer or tablet)
• “Fingers that Refuse to Core” – Oyster River Pages
• “Shrimp Shack” – After Happy Hour Review (nominated for Best of Net)
• “What’s Built Up” – River Heron Review
• “Apex Predator” – EPOCH Magazine
• “Make a Fuss (My Mom Tells Me Again)” – Anacapa Review
• “Harvest” – Many Nice Donkeys
• “Diagnosis” – Cool Beans Lit
• “First Kiss” (Reprint) – Beyond Words Magazine
• “Scar on my Left Arm” – The Penn Review
• “Charley Horse” and “Off the Rails” – for The Southern Poetry Anthology Vol. X, Alabama – Texas Review Press
• “First Kiss” – Moon City Review 2023
• “Don’t Bother with Burial” and “Bath House” – Dream Pop Press
• “Tight Grip (or Trichotillomania)” and “Curses” and “Never Went to Space Camp” – The Shore Poetry
• “Fire Season” – The Dodge
• “Inheritance” – SWWIM – Poem A Day
• “In My Grandmother’s Jaw” – Finalist for the Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize – Bear Review
• “In the Woods” and “Home of the Hermitess” – Coffin Bell Journal (Defunct)
• “How We Devein Distance” – Greensboro Review – Spring 2022 – Vol. 111
• “I Call in Conflict with my Hands (Excoriation)” – Sweet Tree Review
• “When a Gull Eats a Fish” and “Last to Leave” – Anatolios Magazine
• “Empty Bucket” – Cordella Magazine Volume IV
• “Dissolution” – Glass House Press
• “After the Divorce” 2018 Alabama Writers’ Conclave Journal – 1st Place Poetry Contest Winner