Poetry, fiction, nonfiction
Awards & Publications
I’m passionate about pursuing excellence in the craft of writing and helping others do the same. I’m grateful to every editor who has published or nominated my work and to readers who’ve enjoyed it!
Awards
- Best of the Net Nominations (2026)
1. “Anxiety is a Bear,” South 85 Journal
2. “To the Wendy’s Cashier Whose Husband Is Dying,” JAKE - Best Spiritual Literature Nomination (2026)
1. “Things that Remind Me of the Vastness of the Universe,” Inflectionist Review - Grant Recipient (2025) from the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council & Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
- Pushcart Prize Nominations (2025):
1. “My New Normal,” Inkfish Magazine
2. “Anxiety is a Bear,” South 85 Journal - Best of the Net Nomination (2025):
1. “Cooking as Therapy,” Ruby Literary - Best Small Fictions WINNERS (2024), selected for inclusion in the anthology:
1. “As in the Days of Noah” Cease, Cows.
2. “Unprecedented Weather Patterns” Gone Lawn - Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist (2024)
1. “Unprecedented Weather Patterns” Gone Lawn
2. “How Were You to Know?” Ghost Parachute - Pushcart Prize nominations (2024):
1. “As in the Days of Noah” Cease, Cows.
2. “The Noisy Parts Removed” Paddler Press - Best of the Net nominations (2024):
1. “As in the Days of Noah” Cease, Cows.
2. “The Lion” Emerge Journal
3. “Lost or Found in a McDonald’s PlayPlace” Does it Have Pockets?
4. “Toward the Edge of the Earth” Unstamatic - Best Microfiction nominations (2024)
1. “Unprecedented Weather Patterns” Gone Lawn
2. “Youth of America” National Flash Flood
3. “Cooking as Therapy” Ruby Literary - Third Place – Five Minute Lit Micro Memoir Contest, “Motherhood”
- Best Spiritual Literature WINNER (2023): “Fundamentally Flawed”
- Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist (2023): “Becoming One”
- First Place WINNER (2023) – Women On Writing Q2 2023 Essay Contest – “Cloudy”
- Best in Show: Creative Nonfiction (2023) award from Inscape Journal for “Intersections”
- Best of the Net nomination (2023) for “Fundamentally Flawed”Rougarou Journal
- First Place WINNER (2022)– Women On Writing Q2 2022 Essay Contest – “The Pause Button”
- Runner Up (2022) – Women On Writing Q2 2022 Essay Contest – “Grocery List for My Parents’ Visit”
Poetry
- “Elegy for the Appalachian Summers of My Childhood,” Pittsburgh Quarterly, (forthcoming)
- “Imago Dei Revisited” Relief Journal (forthcoming)
- “Preschool Field Trip to the Natural History Museum” Here (forthcoming)
- “In the Beginning” & “A March Snow Shower Reminds Me to Pray for Our Children,” Paddler Press (forthcoming)
- “I Take My Husband to Readings by Award-Winning Poets” The Indianapolis Review, August 2025
- “I’ve Spend My Life Separated from Living” Burningword Literary Journal, July 2025
- “Five Trees Marked for Removal” Chestnut Review, July 2025
- “Choices,” “How Many Miles Away is Heaven?,” “The Day the Devil Brought Us to Church,” North Dakota Quarterly, July 2025
- “Polly Pocket,“ Lunch Ticket, June 2025
- “Things That Remind Me of the Vastness of the Universe,” The Inflectionist Review, June 2025
- “Mad Libs in the Botanical Garden after a Breakup” & “Mad Libs at American Elementary Schools” The Interpreter’s House, May 2025
- “my heart” (haiku) One Art’s Haiku Anthology, April 2025
- “After a Rain,” “Essence of Adolescence,” & “It’s Cliche to Wish For World Peace” Does It Have Pockets?, April 2025
- “What to Do After the Funeral” The Wild Umbrella, April 2025
- “Poem In Which I Bleed” & “When a Friend Tells Me I Look Beautiful Because I’ve Lost Weight Due to Prolonged Illness” – One Art, April 2025
- “Prayer During a Storm” EcoTheo Review, March 2025
- “Sparks” & “Resiliency” Northern Appalachia Review, February 2025
- “When it Pours,” Lascaux Review, January, 2025
- “My Daughter Was Born Blue” Susurrus Magazine, December 2024
- “Someone Lost, Lost Someone” The Inflectionist Review, December 2024
- “Storm Takes a Vacation” & “Storm Is an Astronaut” Gone Lawn, December 2024
- “When It Pours” The Sunlight Press, December 2024
- “Don’t Look Back” & “Jesus Storm” Solum Journal, December 2024
- “Almost,” The Ex-Puritan, November 2024
- “Anxiety is a Bear,” South 85 Journal, November 2024
- “My New Normal” & “Meditation on the Length of a Life” Inkfish Magazine, October 2024
- “Meditation on Dreams” & “Anxiety with the 6 Components of Weather” Sublunary Review, October 2024
- “Storm is Misunderstood,” “Storm Explores Its Origins,” “Storm Writes a Novel,” “Storm Imagines Alternate Lives,” “Storm Visits Preschool,” “Storm Arrives at My House” ONLY POEMS, October 2024
- “The Number of Completion” Sweet Literary, October 2024
- “Ode to My Husband’s Lego Garden” Zero Readers, September 2024
- “Storm Is the Word My Therapist Used for My Anxiety Disorder,” Libre Magazine, September 2024
- “Raised in the Hills” Away From Home Anthology, Stanchion, September 2024
- “Ghazal: Like a Prayer” Rattle, July 2024
- “Self-Portrait in a Landscape” BRAWL Lit, July 2024
- “The Last Leaf” Alan Squire Publishing, July 2024
- “Postpartum” Alan Squire Publishing, July 2024
- “Mountain Rain” Deep Wild Journal, June 2024
- “Ordinary Illumination” One Art, May 2024
- “At the Prospect of Suffering or Death” Louisiana Literature, May 2024
- “Self-Portrait as a Robin” Hooghly Review, April 2024
- “Self-Portrait as a Seed” Hooghly Review, April 2024
- “When My Daughter Finally Starts Walking” Trampoline Poetry, April 2024
- “The Consequences of a Growing Family” HAD, April 2024
- “I Used to Think the Brokenness Was You” San Pedro River Review, February 2024
- “Driving in the Snow” Bending Genres, February 2024
- “Suburban Souls” Maudlin House, January 2024
- “The Hope Museum” Unbroken, January 2024
- “Self Portrait as Firmament” Prime Number Magazine, January 2024
- “Sanctuary” Rising Action Review, January 2024
- “Sunset” Needle Poetry, December 2023
- “Unprecedented Weather Patterns” Gone Lawn, November 2023
- “Autumn Meditation” Bicoastal Review, November 2023
- “My Atheist Friend Asks Me to Pray” One Art, November 2023
- “Overdue Prayer” Dust Poetry Magazine, October 2023
- “Dear God, What’s Beyond These Mountains?” Still: The Journal, October 2023
- “When I Hold Her” Journal of Expressive Writing, October 2023
- “I am the Violin” Cutbow Quarterly, September 2023
- “Antidote” Amethyst Review, August 2023
- “My 9-Year Old Self Dreams of Success While Stringing Beans,” Mid-South Sonnets Anthology, Belle Point Press, August 2023
- “6 a.m.” Roi Fainéant Press, July 2023
- “Homemaker” Roi Fainéant Press, July 2023
- “Sure, Call Me a Homemaker” Roi Fainéant Press, July 2023
- “After the 12th Bedtime Story” Roi Fainéant Press, July 2023
- “Sleeping on the Day I Drown” Boats Against the Current, July 2023
- “The Home I Abandoned” One Art, July 2023
- “How My Mind Works” A Thin Slice of Anxiety, July 2023
- “Self Driving“ A Thin Slice of Anxiety, July 2023
- “Wanted: Earplugs for the Imaginary” A Thin Slice of Anxiety, July 2023
- “Gardening on Our Last Day on Earth” Salamander, June 2023
- “Maybe My Toddler is Neurodivergent and Maybe I Am Too” BlueHouse Journal, June 2023
- “A Moment, A Memory” Mom Egg Review, June 2023
- “I Feel Guilty About How Happy I Am That My Husband Had a Vasectomy” The Racket Journal, June 2023
- “Let the Skeletons Out of the Closet” Tiny Spoon, May 2023
- “Ears of Corn” Last Leaves Press, April 2023
- “I Hibernate Within Myself” Last Leaves Press, April 2023
- “As in the Days of Noah” Cease, Cows, April 2023
- “‘Earthy, bitter, almost musky, with a bit of pepperiness” Eunoia Review, March 2023
- I’m Not a Writing Machine” Art, Strike!, March 2023
- “A New Love Found” Dos Gatos Press – Unknotting the Line, March 2023
- “When I Write While Standing to Make Room for My Toddler Who Colors on the Page” Streetcake Magazine, March 2023
- “I’m Supposed to Feel Loss Over The Body I Had, But My Body Never Felt Like Mine” (Reprint) Open Minds Quarterly, January 2023
- “The Scary Man” Brimstone & Venus, January 2023
- “Leave Her Bee” Brimstone & Venus, January 2023
- “The Noisy Parts Removed” Paddler Press, January 2023
- “Accident, Maryland” JAKE, January 2023
- “Peer Pressure” JAKE, January 2023
- “All That Will Remain” Trash to Treasure Lit, January 2023
- “I Want to Be an Acadia Tree” Trash to Treasure Lit, January 2023
- “Washing Away Your Past” Martello Journal, January 2023
- “Becoming One” Gone Lawn, December 2022
- “Am I Worthy?” Moria Literary Magazine, December 2022
- “I’m Supposed to Feel Loss Over the Body I Had, But My Body Never Felt Like Mine“ Moria Literary Magazine, December 2022
- “Autumn Is…” Hearth & Coffin, November 2022
- “Suffering the Joy of Rendering” Aurora Journal, November 2022
- “Things I’ve Burned” Hand Picked Poetry, November 2022
- “Definition: The color between green and orange” Harpy Hybrid, November 2022
- “Please Let My Child Be Normal” Neologism Poetry Journal, November 2022
- “I Wish I Could Teach You Locomotion” Brave Voices Magazine, October, 2022 [Magazine Defunct]
- “Aerial Yoga“ HeartBalm Lit, September, 2022
- “Don’t Tongue the Royal Croaker” Terror House Magazine, August 2022
- “Making Friends as an Adult is Hard” Terror House Magazine, August 2022
- “YouTube Videos Dad Sent Me (2020-2022) Turned Into Poetry”The Disappointed Housewife, July 2022
- “Beautiful Death” Awake Our Hearts, February 2022
Nonfiction
- “To the Wendy’s Cashier Whose Husband Is Dying” JAKE Mag, May 2025
- “My Son Asks About Death, a Diptych” Lost Balloon Mag, April 2025
- “I Remember the Lack, But Also Abundance” River Teeth’s “Beautiful Things,” April 2025
- “How I Got an Acceptance from My ‘Dream’ Journal and You Can Too” Lit Mag News, November 2024
- “When the Scheduler Calls and Refers to My Upcoming Procedure as an ‘Emergency Colonoscopy’” Brevity, September 2024
- “I Become My Younger Self” Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, May 2024
- “Creatures, Curiosities, and Cruelties” The Palisades Review, April 2024
- “Guilt-Worm as Seen in a Female Specimen” Afterimages by Thirty West Publishing, February 2024
- “Cultivating Contentment in Your Writing Life” Lit Mag News, February 2024
- “Motherhood” Five Minute Lit, December 2023
- “Mommy, What is a Gun?” Variety Pack, December 2023
- “Launch Your Writing Career with the Snowball Strategy” Lit Mag News, October 2023
- “Open Hands” Five Minute Lit, August 2023
- “First Night in City Apartment” Underscore Magazine, May 2023
- “Intersections” Inscape Journal, April 2023
- “Spoon Necklace” Five Minute Lit, March 2023
- “On Collecting” Identity Theory, December 2022
- “Emails to the Otherside” Pyre Magazine, November 2022
- “Lion’s Tooth in the Wind” Harpy Hybrid, November 2022
- “Nocturnal Ruminations” Sweet Literary, November 2022
“17 Steps to Accelerate Your Writing Life” Brevity blog, November 2022 - “Wading in the Water” Heart of Flesh Journal, November 2022
- “Heliocentric” Scribes*MICRO*Fiction, September, 2022
- “One Day is as a Thousand Years” , Soft Star Magazine, September 2022
- “To Feed, or Not To Feed”, Bubble Magazine, September 2022
- “Cords” Gastropoda, August 2022
- “Don’t Be a Platypus” Chill Subs, August 2022
- “Roots” Flyover Country Magazine, August 2022
- “Among the Beads” Bright Flash, August 2022
- “How to Get Published in Literary Magazines” Women On Writing, July 2022
- “Advice for a Pregnant Insomniac” Substantially Unlimited, June 2022 [Magazine Defunct]
- “Cloudy” The Citron Review, June 2022
- “Let’s Get Messy: On Mixing Writing and Life” Brevity Blog, June 2022
- “Literary & Literal Gestation” Allium: A Journal of Poetry & Prose, May 2022
- “Fundamentally Flawed” Rougarou Journal, May 2022
- “My Echo” Scribes*MICRO*Fiction, February 2022
- “When Life Gets Busy Write Anyway” Women On Writing,January 2022
- “I’ll Never Be a Perfect Mom, But I’ll Be a Loving One” Her View From Home, January 2022
- “My Constant Companion” Scribes*MICRO*Fiction, January 2022
- “The Pause Button” Sky Island Journal, January 2022
- “Never Stop Learning” Women On Writing, January 2022
- “You Won’t Remember Me” Literary Mama, May 2021
- “Little Caterpillar” Scribes*MICRO*Fiction, March 2021
Fiction
- “Genetic Engineering Demonstration Gone Wrong” Heavy Feather Review, July 2024
- “Runaway” Gooseberry Pie, July 2024
- “Cooking as Therapy” Ruby Literary Magazine, August 2023
- “Something Different” BULL Magazine, July 2023
- “On the Anniversary of Steven’s Death” Your Impossible Voice, July 2023
- “Youth of America” National Flash Flood, June 2023
- “How Were You to Know?” Ghost Parachute, June 2023
- “Lost or Found in the McDonald’s PlayPlace” Does It Have Pockets, June 2023
- “Baby Doll” Does It Have Pockets, June 2023
- “Musical Remains” Flash Boulevard, May 2023
- “After She Cheated” Flash Boulevard, May 2023
- “How to Feed a Polar Bear Family” Flash Boulevard, May 2023
- “Freak Accident, Reports Say” South Florida Poetry Journal, May 2023
- “A Bedtime Story for the Sun’s Children” Full Mood Mag, March 2023
- “A Dolphin” Ellipsis Zine, March 2023
- “Toward the Edge of the Earth” Unstamatic, March 2023
- “After She Left” Paragraph Planet, February 2023
- “The Lion” Emerge Literary Journal, January 2023
- “Dear Humans” CREATION Magazine, December 2022
- “How to Make an Origami Mouse” Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, November 2022
- “Here I Am Again” Suddenly and Without Warning, September 2022
- “Granny’s Last Day” 50 Give or Take, May 2022
