News & Press
March 2022
Thursday, Mar. 17, at 7 PM in Nashville, TN: Poetry and fiction reading with author Claire Jimenez as part of Vanderbilt University’s Gertrude & Harold Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series.
February 2022
Thursday, Feb. 24, at 3:15 PM at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900: I’ll be reading on the panel, “Entanglements in the Poetic Landscape: Ecofeminism and Environmentalism,” with moderator, Dr. Aditi Machado, and the panelists Nicholas Molbert, Andy Sia, and Paige Webb.
Saturday, Feb. 26, at 3:45 PM at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900: I’ll be reading on the panel, “Addressing the Absence,” alongside Eleanor Boudreau and Dominika Wrozynski.
December 2021
Dec. 12, 2021: My poem, “What You Missed,” was published in the beautiful virtual pages of The Atlantic.
March 2021
March 5, AWP Virtual Conference: Moderating the panel, “Loss, Memory, Transformation: Women Poets and the Elegy” at the AWP Conference, alongside the poets, Janine Joseph, Yalie Kamara, Allison Adair, and Melissa Cundieff.
I’m sincerely grateful to be awarded the University of Cincinnati’s University Research Council Award for my research project, “‘The Common Dark in All the Earth’: Modernist Romanticism and the Environmental Sublime in Lorine Niedecker,” conducted under the guidance of Professor John Drury.
January 2021
I’m deeply grateful to the brilliant poet and essayist, Lisa Low, for her astute and thoughtful review of Exorcism Lessons in the Heartland in The Adroit Journal. Check out her work here!
October 2020
I’m reading virtually with poet Leila Chatti and fiction writer Michael Alessi as part of the UC EGO Reading Series on October 1st at 7 PM EST.
February 2020
February 9, Murfreesboro, TN: I’ll be reading from my collection, Exorcism Lessons in the Heartland, as part of the Poetry in the Boro series (opens at 6:30 PM).
January 2020
Very touched and honored by the incredible creative nonfiction writer, Emma Faesi Hudelson’s, stunning review of Exorcism Lessons in the Heartland in the latest issue of The Rupture.
My poem, “After Arriving Home from Church and Learning Our Dogs Were Shot, Their Bodies in the Fields,” was reprinted in the latest Best New Poets (nominated by Crazyhorse).
December 2019
Thrilled to announce my poem, “Resurrected, a version of my mother dwells in silence (originally published in The Southeast Review), has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Check out the latest issue of The Southeast Review here.
I have 3 new poems out in the new Great River Review. Purchase a copy here!
November 2019
Chris Ketchum has reviewed Exorcism Lessons in the Heartland in the latest issue of Nashville Review! Read his gorgeous review here, or buy a copy of the book here, here, or here.
October 2019
My debut collection, Exorcism Lessons in the Heartland, selected for the 2018 Barrow Street Prize by Ada Limón, arrives October 1st! You can buy it here, here, or here.
Oct. 5, Worcester, Massachusetts: I will be presenting a paper, “‘A Starting Place’: Incorporating the Health Humanities in the Undergraduate Writing Classroom” at this year’s Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers at the College of the Holy Cross.
Oct. 12, 11 AM, Nashville: I am reading from my new book at the Southern Festival of Books alongside the brilliant poet Kate Daniels.
Oct. 23, 7 PM, Indianapolis: I will be reading from my new book as part of the fabulous Poets Attack Reading Series.
September 2019
My interview with Jayme Ringleb of The Southeast Review is out! Read my thoughts on poetry and my debut collection here.
Honored to have my poem, “After Arriving Home from Church and Learning Our Dogs Were Shot, Their Bodies in the Fields,” accepted for Best New Poets 2019 (judge Cate Marvin). Check out the finalists here. I am doubly honored for the wonderful Crazyhorse to have both published and nominated this poem in issue 93.
March 2019
My poem, “Resurrected, a version of my mother dwells in silence” has come out in the latest issue of The Southeast Review.
I will be giving three readings on Friday at AWP in Portland: 1:30, Late Lunch Poems at the Kickstand Comedy Club; 5:30 at the Flash Bonanza series at Lucky Labrador; 6:30 at the Barrow Street Off-Site Reading at the Pacific Northwest College of the Arts.
The new Third Coast is out and features my poem, “After Euthanizing the Wild Horses of the West” in its pages. I’m honored to have had this poem chosen by Sarah Kay as the Runner-Up for the 2018 Third Coast Poetry Prize.
February 2019
The stunning new issue of Harvard Review, featuring my poem, “Hymeneal,” has arrived. Check it out!
November 2018
Ada Limón selected my full-length poetry collection, Exorcism Lessons in the Heartland, as the winner of the 2018 Barrow Street Book Prize, coming out October 2019! To read more about Barrow Street Press’s publications, click here.
October 2018
Beloit Poetry Journal’s dazzling new issue features my poem, “To the Supreme Associate Judges.”
I will be reading as part of the EGO Reading Series at Landlocked Social House, Oct. 30th, at 6:30 PM.
September 2018
The gorgeous The Adroit Journal published my review, “To Love, Despite Collapse: A Review of Brenda Hillman’s Extra Hidden Life, among the Days.” Read about Hillman’s vital new collection here. Buy the collection from Wesleyan University Press here.
August 2018
My full-length manuscript, "Exorcism Lessons in the Heartland," was selected as a semifinalist for the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize.
The Adroit Journal published my review of Lee Conell's gorgeous short story collection, Subcortical. Read it here.
July 2018
Poetry Daily featured "To the Next Supreme Justice," as their poem for July 19. Originally published in Gulf Coast, you can check out the poem here.
May 2018
My poem, "After Euthanizing the Wild Horses of the West," has been selected by Sarah Kay as the runner-up for the 2018 Third Coast Poetry Prize. Click here for more info about the winners and finalists.
The Adroit Journal published my review of Melissa Cundieff's stunning first poetry collection, Darling Nova (Autumn House, 2018).
April 2018
Crazyhorse published my poem, “After Arriving Home from Church and Learning Our Dogs Were Shot, Their Bodies in the Fields” in their Spring 2018 Issue. Read the issue here.
Vanderbilt News featured my work in a recent article about Nashville Public Radio's Versify podcast and the Poetry on Demand program.
Fisk and Vanderbilt Creative Writing students read together at the inaugural undergraduate reading series at the Bishop Johnson Black Cultural Center.
January 2018
The Ohio State University Press named my manuscript, "Vigil with Dimming Figure," a semifinalist for The Journal/ Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize.
Black Lawrence Press named my manuscript, "Exorcism Lessons in the Heartland," as a finalist in the 2018 St. Lawrence Book Award.
Gulf Coast published my poem, "To the Next Supreme Justice," in their Winter/Spring 2018 Issue. Check out the issue here.
November 2017
Persea Books listed my manuscript, "Vigil with Dimming Figure," as a semifinalist for the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize.
The University of Wisconsin press selected my manuscript, "Exorcism Lessons in the Heartland," as a semifinalist for the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and the Felix Pollak Prize.