BOOK PUBLICATION
The Whole by Contemplation of a Single Bone: Poems (Fordham University Press, 2015, Poets Out Loud Prize), NYC, publication April 2016.
 
Two Minutes of Light: Poems (Perugia Press: 2008 Poetry Prize). Florence, MA, August 2008.
  • Winner of the 2009 L.L. Winship/ PEN New England Award
  • 9th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards, “Must Read Book” 2009
  • Lambda Literary Award finalist

​SELECTED JOURNAL PUBLICATION


"The Birthing Room" in Mississippi Review. Summer 2017
QUEERY, an interview with The Washington Blade, 2017   
 “Molasses” in Oxford American, Spring 2016
Interview with Dawn Lundy Martin, Split This Rock, Washington, D.C., February 2016.
 “Aphasia” and “Hardwoods.” Alaska Quarterly Review. Spring 2014.
“Starling.” Provincetown Arts Magazine. Spring 2014
“Lullaby,” “Abrams Creek,” and “Blackberries” Crab Orchard Review, Fall 2011.
“Bird in Space.” Spoon River Poetry Review, Summer 2011.
“Calls.” Sonora Review, Spring 2011.
“Selene’s Horse.” Sycamore Review, Winter 2011.
“Shift.” Reprinted Oberon Poetry Magazine, Fall 2010.
“It Was a Swell Fiesta,” “Left for Dead,” “Shift,” “Waiver,” “Eulogy,” and “Typeface Elegy.” Tusculum Review, Vol 6, Spring, 2010.
“Black Water” and “Opening Day.” Hunger Mountain, Spring 2010.
“Prairies.” Anderbo, February 2010.
“Believer.” Gulf Coast, Winter 2010.
“Cinderella.” Madison Review, Fall 2009.
Provincetown Arts Magazine, book review, July 2009.
 “My Namesake is Dying.” Southern Indiana Review, Spring 2009.
“Elsewhere.” Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Winter 2009.
“Thought Thinking Itself.” The Cimarron Review, Spring 2008.
“To the High School Prom Queen.” Hayden’s Ferry Review, Winter 2008.
“Thanks for a Great Season See You in the Spring.” The Black Warrior Review, Winter 2007.
“From the Motel By The Hour.” The Iowa Review, December. 2007.
 “Silver Bimbo Mud Flap Song” and “Jesus Bugs.” Margie, Fall 2006.
“Half-way to Hell.” Whiskey Island Review, Fall 2006.
"Song for the Scars” and “ Sea Horses.” The Adirondack Review, Summer 2006.
“Jewelweed.” Folio, Winter 2005.
“Hiking the AT: Day 23.” Phoebe, Spring 2004.
"Uncertainty Principle.” Kalliope, Fall 2003.
“Fingernail Clippers.” Brick and Mortar Review, Fall 2003.
 
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION

"At the Root There is Assurance” in Miracle Monocle: Queer, Rural and American (University of Louisville, November 2019)
 
“I'll Listen to the Lady, But We're Going To Bring This To a Close" in Show Us Your Papers (Main Street Rag, forthcoming Spring 2019)
 
“Lullaby” in Method and Mystery. Ed. Tresha Faye Haefner (Poetry Salon Press, March 2019).

“Brazos Bend” in Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. Ed. Melissa Tuckey (University of Georgia Press, Fall 2017).
 
“From the Motel by the Hour” in Ordinary Genius, A Guide for The Poet Within by Kim Addonizio (Norton, 2009).
 
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Readings for Perugia Press and Fordham University Press, AWP, Portland, OR 2019.

​Reading at West Chester University with Yolanda Wisher, 2018

Volunteer Coordinator and Editorial Staff, Split This Rock Poetry Festival, Washington, D.C. 2017.

Book Interviews, Poets Out Loud, AWP, Los Angeles, CA 2016.

Panelist, “Memory  & Identity” (with David MacLean, Jameelah Lang, and Peter Turchi). Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX February 2015.

Panelist, “Beg, Borrow and Steal: Redefining Influence.” 2011 Massachusetts Poetry Festival at Salem State University in Salem, MA. May 2011.
 
Panelist, “Ugly Truths: A Poetry Craft Panel Discussion on Poems That Make Art from Shocking or Risky Material.” 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Lowell, MA. October 2009.
 
Reader, featured event at the Fall for the Book Festival at George Mason University, Fairfax VA, Sept. 2009.
 
Reader, featured event at The Key West Writing Conference, Key West, FL, January 2008.
 
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2016 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize finalist
2015 Poets Out Loud Prize, Fordham University Press
2014-2015 Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry
2013-2014 Inprint Marion Barthelme $10,000 Prize in Creative Writing
2012 University of Houston Teaching Fellowship
2012 Pushcart Prize Nomination
2011 Wabash Poetry Prize, Sycamore Review
2010 Sonora Review Poetry Prize
2010 Spoon River Poetry Review Editors’ Prize
2010 Tusculum Review Poetry Prize
2010 Anderbo Poetry Award
2010 Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist Grant  
2009 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award
9th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards, “Must Read Book” 2009
Lambda Literary Award, book finalist
2008 Dorothy Sargent Memorial Award
2008 Astraea Writers Fund, Grant
2008 Key West Literary Seminar, Scotti Merrill Scholarship
2008 Pushcart Prize Nominee
2008 Cultural Center of Cape Cod Poetry Prize
2007-2008 Fine Arts Work Center, Second Year Fellowship, Provincetown, MA
2006-2007 Fine Arts Work Center, Seven-Month Fellowship, Provincetown, MA
2006 Whiskey Island Review Poetry Prize
2005 Pushcart Prize Nomination
2005 Graduate Thesis Completion Fellowship Award, George Mason, Fairfax, VA
 
SELECTED COMMITEES, JURIES, INTERVIEWS AND READINGS
  • “Split This Rock Poetry Festival,” Washington, D.C., Planning, current, (2018 reading)
  • Poetry Jury Member, Perugia Press, Northampton, MA 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, current
  • Poetry Jury Committee 2016, Fordham University Press, NYC current
  • Kaboom Books, Gulf Coast, Brazos Book Store,  Poison Pen readings, Houston, TX 2012-2015
  • Board Member, “Public Poetry Reading Series,” Houston, TX 2012-2013
  • Forbes Library Reading Series, Northampton, April 2011
  • Massachusetts Cultural Council Reading Series, Northampton, April 2011
  • “Fall for the Book,” guest poet, George Mason University 2010
  • Poetry Jury Member, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown 2009, 2010
  • “The Collected Poets Series,” Shelburne Falls, MA, January 2010
  • Cultural Center of Cape Cod, reading, Harwich, MA September 2009
  • Provincetown Poetry Festival, reading, MA April 2009
  • Rock Point Books, reading, Chattanooga, TN, April 2009
  • Lambda Literary Awards Reading, NYC, April 2009
  • Mount Wachusett Community College, reading, Gardner, MA, March 2009
  • Four Way Books “Readings on the Bowery,” NYC, January 2009
  • “Living Writers,” radio interview, WCBN, Ann Arbor, MI, December 2008
  • San Francisco Library Reading Series, San Francisco, October 2008
 
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