books & chapbooks
Bright Along the Body, chapbook, Dancing Girl Press, 2017
Cover art and design by April Pierce.
published & forthcoming poems
The Boiler, “Reflection on When I Heard You Were Sober,” “Judith Beheading Holofernes,” forthcoming
Southern Women’s Review, “Reckoning for a Body,” “An Apology,” forthcoming
Rogue Agent: “Ekphrasis”
Ghost Proposal: “Woman Found Chained in Metal Container,” (with Emma Bolden)
Nightjar Review: “The New Year” (Nominated for Best of the Net)
The Fem: “In the Event of Conception”
About Place, SOUTH Issue: “Memphis Hustle III”
Watershed Review: “The Barn,” “To My Husband”
Public Pool: “If there is a place for bodies to be safe,” “Woman in Bathroom”
The Literary Review: “Blessing for the Use of New Houses”
Heron Tree: “Advice I Would Have Given Myself, If I Had Known”
Noble / Gas Qtrly: “Poem That Can’t Be Another Poem,” “Poem Taking Advantage of Tennessee,” “Poem with an Open Window,” “Memphis Hustle I”
Bear Review 2.2: “Self-Portrait with Arson,” “Self-Portrait with Fur”
Bone Bouquet: “Transition, with Bells and Leaves”
Academy of American Poets: “what you have left”
Superstition Review: “Seven of Swords, Reversed,” “sorry about the poem with feathers”
burntdistrict: “Green Tongue,” “Something the Previous Owners Never Told Us”
Squaw Valley Review: “Text Message Photographs”
Smartish Pace : “Third Summer,” “I’m From Nowhere”
Tinderbox Poetry Journal: “Rabbit Fever,” “Wildflowers Poetica”
District Lit: “what the bed thinks about is the unswept floor” (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
Rock & Sling: “Red Bird Elegy,” “Poem with a Line by Andrew Freiman”
Midway Journal: “Twin Cell”
THRUSH Poetry Journal: “Starlings”
Dunes Review: “Suffer Cure”
noteworthy events & publications
Writer in Residence: Crosstown Residency Program
Featured Poet: Open Mouth Poetry Festival (w/ Caitlin Scarano)
Judge – Poetry Contest: Chrysalis, the literary and arts magazine of Ferrum College in Virginia
Reader: Writers Resist
Featured Poet (w/ Kendra DeColo, Tara Mae Mulroy, and Sheree Renée Thomas: Third Man Books
Featured: Nightjar Review
Featured: The Dean’s List on Make Memphis blog
Featured Poet (w/ Maggie Woodward, Chris Hosea, & Douglas Piccinnini): Trobar Ric Reading Series
Review / Stranger, by Adam Clay: Memphis Flyer
Presenting Artist: The Memphis Lyrics w/ Heather Dobbins, Ruby Slipper Fringe Fest
Featured Poet (w/ Aaron Brame): Open Mouth Reading Series
Writer in Residence: Firefly Farms, Sundress Academy for the Arts
Collaborating Artist: Words Matter, Crosstown Arts
Memphis Scene Report (w/Danian Jerry): realpants.com
Contributor interview (w/ editor Rebekah Bresee): Rock & Sling blog
coordinator / host
Impossible Language Reading Series, 2013 to 2017
editor
The Pinch Literary Journal – 2014 – 2016
Managing Editor – Issue 36.1
Assistant Managing Editor – Issue 35.2
Senior Poetry Editor – Issue 35.1
Senior Poetry Editor / Art Editor – Issue 34.2
