Creative Writing

 

My writing has been published in Salvation South, Still: The Journal, Appalachian Review, Rust + Moth, Coffin Bell, Black Moon Magazine, Exposition Review, and others.

My poem “Ceramic Jesus” is featured in Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology, published by Sarabande Books (2023). I received the Kentucky State Poetry Society’s Grand Prix Prize in 2021 and an honorable mention in 2024 from Ky Poet Laureate, Silas House.

 
 

Prose & Short Fiction
“Spiderland.” 2022. Sunspot Lit

Awards & Recognition
KY State Poetry Society: Grand Prix Prize, Honorable Mention. “Prayer: Twenty Twenty-Two.” 2024

American Short Fiction, 2022 American Short(er) Fiction Prize. Semi-finalist. “Crickets.”

Still: The Journal, Best of the Net nomination, “Ceramic Jesus.” 2022

KY State Poetry Society: Grand Prix Prize, 1st Place. “The Fourth Heart Sound.” 2021

Sunspot Lit, Inception Contest, Finalist. “Spiderland.” 2021

Readings
KSPS Poetry Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, October 2024 (forthcoming)

Appalachian Writers’ Workshop, Hindman Settlement School, Summer 2023

Once a City Said Book Launch, Sarabande Books, Louisville, KY, Summer 2023

KSPS Poetry Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, October 2021

Exposition Review Vol. VI. "Hunger" Reading, Skylight Books, Los Angeles, 2021

Press & Interviews
Interview with Marianne Worthington and David Higdon, Think Humanities KY, April 2022

Workshops & Conferences
Appalachian Writers’ Workshop, Hindman Settlement School, Summer 2023

Books
Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology.
2023. Sarabande Books

Poems
"Self-help" and “Ice Skating.” 2024. Star 82 Review (forthcoming)

Prayer: Twenty Twenty-Two.2024. Pegasus

"Moccasin." 2024. Salvation South

"The Place We Call Home." 2023. Still: The Journal

“Vehicles.” 2022. Southword: New International Writing

“I Like to Walk Before the Light," “Eastern Cemetery,”
and “The Lamp Above My Door.” 2022. Appalachian Review

"Tuesday in August.” 2022. Wild Roof Journal

“McQuady, ‘75” and “Ceramic Jesus.” 2022. Still: The Journal

“What’ll Happen.” 2022. Black Moon Magazine

“Hain’t No Fixing It.” 2022. Coffin Bell Journal

“Barren Lyric.” 2022. Coffin Bell Journal

“When Pagans Once Lived.” 2021. Rust + Moth

“The Girls Lived.” 2021. the tiny journal

“Summer of Yig.” 2021. Naugatuck River Review

“Lone Tick Star.” 2021. Exposition Review

“Nights at the Court.” 2021. Lucky Jefferson