Work

Book

• Abide (winner of the 2025 Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize selected by Kim Addonizio, Ashland Poetry Press, forthcoming in 2026)

Chapbook

• Orange, Dreaming (Five Oaks Press, January, 2017)

Poems

• “Resurrection” in Cutthroat (#28, Fall 2023)
• “Honeybee at Dusk” and “I Will Remember for Both of Us” in Lily Poetry Review (Summer 2023)
• “ACME Anvil” in Molecule (Issue 9, Fall 2023)
• “Chiaroscuro” in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry (2023);
• “I Have Five Tattoos” in Nimrod (Spring/Summer 2023, Vol 66, No. 2)
• “What I Am Telling You, Jessica, Is That Those Chickens Are Fine” in New Ohio Review (Issue 32, Spring 2023)
• “One Heaven” in Poetry International Online (12/21/2022)
• “Prayer at Hill’s Pond” in EcoTheo Review online (10/31/22)
• “Acid Test” in SWWIM Every Day (10/3/22)
• “Harnessed” and “To the Boys in My Niece’s Ninth Grade Class Who Question the Need for a Module on Poetry” in The Southern Review (Autumn 2022)
• “November Trees” in Molecule (Issue 7, Fall 2022)
• “Devotion” and “I say I want the world to look like poetry again” in The Sun (Issue 561, September 2022)
• “How to Rescue the Stunned Bird” in Tupelo Quarterly (Issue 27, August 2022)
• “Rescue” in Radar Poetry (Issue 33, June 2022)
• “Hysteranthous” in The Ocotillo Review (Winter 2022)
• “Yet Another Poem about Birds” in EcoTheo Review (Winter 2022)
• “Restoration” in Red Wheelbarrow (National Edition, 2021)
• “Taxonomy” in Spillway (#29)
• “This Is Not the End of the World” in Lily Poetry Review (Summer 2021)
• “Literature of the Ancient World” in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry (2021); reprinted on Verse Daily
• “My Heart Is a Small-town Zoo” in North American Review (Volume 306, Number 1, Spring 2021)
• “Unmapped” in Incessant Pipe (September 24, 2020)
• “February, 2:00 AM” in Molecule (Issue 3, Fall 2020)
• “Who Are We in Heaven” in MER VOX (Isolation Folio, June, 2020)
• “Matins” in Molecule (Issue 1, Fall 2019)
• “The Key” in Iron Hose Literary Review’s PhotoFinish
• “Nocturne for Another Life” in Dogwood Literary Journal (2018 issue)
• “Why I Don’t Want to Live Forever” in Narrative Magazine
• “Men and Dogs” in Narrative Magazine
• “The Second Law of Thermodynamics” in New Millennium Writings (Issue 26, 2017)
• “What We See, What Sees Us” in Breakwater Review (Issue 20, October, 2017)
• “To My Husband, to Make Much of Time” in Radar Poetry (Issue 13, January, 2017)
• “Things that Happen in the Course of a Long Marriage” in Slippery Elm Literary Journal (Issue 4, December, 2016)
• “The Dead Go Bowling” in Passages North (Issue 37, March, 2016)
• “On Deism Versus Theism” and “Postlapsarian” (reprint) in Soul-Lit (Volume 12, Winter 2016)
• “For the Instrument” in Tinderbox Poetry Journal (Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2015)
• “An Andalusian Dog” in Incessant Pipe (March, 22, 2015)
• “The Dead Drive around Town” and “Reading Little Women in the Red Maple in My Parents’ Front Yard” in CALYX: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women (Volume 28, Number 1, Summer 2014)
• “Rise” and “Poem on Realizing a Friend Has Sold Me Out” in Jabberwock Review (Volume 35.1, Summer 2014)
• “Icebox” in MUZZLE Magazine (Winter 2014)
• “An Andalusian Dog” and “Postlapsarian” in Arts & Letters PRIME 3.1 (December 2013
• “Waning Crescent” in Fugue #45 (November 2013)
• “Poetry in 2120” in Ibbetson Street #33 (June 2013)
• “Vivarium” in The Examined Life Journal (Volume 2, Number 2, Spring 2013)
• “Africa,” “The Hour after You Died,” and “When I Find Out” in The Examined Life Journal (Volume 2, Number 1, Fall 2012)

Essays

• “She Wishes She Smoked” in The Tusculum Review (Volume 6, 2010)
• “A Brief History of My Hair and What Was Said About It” in Sycamore Review (Volume 22, Issue 1, Winter/Spring 2010)
• “Twenty Minutes” in Damselfly Press (Tenth Issue)
• “What Happens Next” and “How Not to Be Afraid” in The Dos Passos Review (Volume 6, Number 2)
• “Turf War” in The Journal (Volume 33.2, Autumn/Winter 2009, nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
• “Faith and Reason: A Love Story” in Red Cedar Review (2009)
• “Catch and Release” in The Fourth River (Autumn 2008 and reprinted in their first online issue)
• “Pictures of You” in The Rambler (May/June 2008)