books & chapbooks
Bright Along the Body, chapbook, Dancing Girl Press, 2017
Cover art and design by April Pierce.
published & forthcoming poems
- “Reckoning for a Body,” “An Apology” / Southern Women’s Review, forthcoming
- “Woman Found Chained in Metal Container” / with Emma Bolden / Ghost Proposal, Issue 8, February 2018
- “The New Year” / Nightjar Review, Issue 4, January 2018
- “In the Event of Conception” / The Fem, Summer 2017
- “Memphis Hustle III” / About Place, SOUTH Issue, May 2017
- “The Barn,” “To My Husband” / Watershed Review, Fall 2016
- “If there is a place for bodies to be safe,” “Woman in Bathroom” / Public Pool, October 2016
- “Blessing for the Use of New Houses” / The Literary Review, print & online Summer 2016
- “Advice I Would Have Given Myself, If I Had Known” / Heron Tree, June 5, 2016
- “Poem That Can’t Be Another Poem,” “Poem Taking Advantage of Tennessee,” “Poem with an Open Window,” “Memphis Hustle I” / Noble / Gas Qtrly 203.2
- “Self-Portrait with Arson,” “Self-Portrait with Fur” / Bear Review 2.2
- “Transition, with Bells and Leaves”/ Bone Bouquet 7.1, Spring 2016
- “what you have left” / Academy of American Poets, December 2015, Winner of the Deborah L. Talbot Poetry Award
- “Seven of Swords, Reversed,” “sorry about the poem with feathers” / Superstition Review, Issue 16, December 2015
- “Green Tongue,” “Something the Previous Owners Never Told Us” / burntdistrict 4.1, 2015
- “Text Message Photographs” / Squaw Valley Review, 2015
- “Third Summer,” “I’m From Nowhere” / Smartish Pace 22, 2015
- “Rabbit Fever,” “Wildflowers Poetica” / Tinderbox Poetry Journal, 2015
- “what the bed thinks about is the unswept floor” / District Lit, 2014
- Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
- “Red Bird Elegy,” “Poem with a Line by Andrew Freiman” / Rock & Sling 9.2, Winter 2014
- “Twin Cell” / Midway Journal, October 2014
- “Starlings” / THRUSH Poetry Journal, September 2014
- “Suffer Cure” / Dunes Review, Issue 18, April 2014
noteworthy events & publications
- Writer in Residence / Crosstown Residency Program / Summer 2018
- 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