Publications
Essays
“From the Back of a Cop Car to Book Deal: How Resistance To Creativity Can Almost Kill Us” published on Substack
”How Brevity Saved My Writing and Marriage: The Art of Less” published on Substack
Selected Poems
Poems from Odd Animal
“If a Wolf is Kicked out of a Pack It Rarely Howls Again” published in New South
“Around 50 Percent of Orangutans Have Fractured Bones, Due to Falling Out of Trees on a Regular Basis.” published in Shrew
“Female Lobsters Grow More Fertile with Age” published in Nimrod
“Ring Tailed Lemur, Koalas Are Only Social For 15 Minutes A Day” published in B O D Y
“Crocodiles Lived Among the Dinosaurs” published in Tupelo
“Sharks have Survived 4 out of 5 Mass Extinctions” published in One Art
“Cockroaches Can Live for a Week Without its Head” published in One Art
“Ants Don’t Sleep but Take 8-minute Naps Twice a Day” published in One Art
Poems from Future Tense
“What I Know to Be True” published in The Adroit Journal
“Nothing Roots” winner of the Jane Underwood Award
“The Doctor Asks How Long Do you Bleed” published in Diode
“Steady” published in Sixth Finch
“How I Learned You” published in Diode
“How Long Do you Bleed” published in Diode
Poems from Boat Burned
“Small Things” published in the Rise Up Review and Best New Poets 2019
"How the Body is Passed Down" published in the Los Angeles Review
“Femininity as a Math Problem in an Attempt to Solve for X” published in Four Way Review
“Where No One Says Eating Disorder” published in Diode
“Boat/Body” published in Diode
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
“Nothing Roots” winner of the Jane Underwood Award
"And The Women Said" published in Rattle, winner of Neil Postman Award for Metaphor, nominated for 2016 Pushcart Prize
"The Polite Bird of Story" second place in the Jack Grapes Poetry Prize
“Lobsters Grow More Fertile with Age” published in Nimrod, semifinalist for the Nimrod Awards
"Femininity as a Math Problem in Attempt to Solve for X" finalist for the Rita Dove Poetry Award
The Politics of Scent" published in Crab Creek Review, semi-finalist for Crab Creek Poetry Prize
"How to Eat A Mango in July" winner of the Los Angeles Poets Society Summer Contest