Awards & Prizes

• "Rats" Nominated for Pushcart Prize 2021
• Finalist for the Coniston Prize 2021, Radar Poetry
• "The Mother" Nominated for Pushcart Prize 2019
• Third Prize Winner, Bright Wings Poetry Contest, Makers and Mystics Podcast, 2019
• Tupelo Quarterly Inaugural Poetry Award, chosen by Ilya Kaminsky, 2013, published in TQ1
• Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award, 2011, published in the Los Angeles Review

Misc

• Judge for North Carolina Poetry Society Pinesong Awards 2022 / Alice Osborn Award
• Judge for North Carolina Poetry Society Pinesong Awards 2021 / Bruce Lader Poetry of Witness Award
• Judge for REALM literary magazine contest 2018-current

Poems & Artwork​

• "SHUTTLE" forthcoming in The Last Milkweed, an anthology by Tupelo Press 
• "A History of Chartreuse" Southern Humanities Review, Volume 56.1, Spring 2023 
• "The Aliens Sift Through Stacks of Kid Artwork All Depicting the Same Moon" Chautauqua, Chance Encounters, 20.1, Spring 2023
• "The Aliens Sift Through Stacks of Kid Artwork All Depicting the Same Moon" featured on the radio in the show Post Poet Pop, Louisville's ARTxFM, Sat, Jan. 21, 2023 - LISTEN HERE
• "What the Trees Teach Us" and "Horeb, Mountain of the Lord", SOLUM Journal, Summer 2022 
• "Cause", "In the Days Before", "praxis, too", TRANSOM, Fall 2022
• "what if i remembered how" (broadside), Blue Mesa Review, Issue 45, Spring 2022 
• "Poison" and "Mary Ruefle Told Me", Kansas City Voices, Summer 2022
• "I grabbed things by the dreamful" and "The inventory of me was the fantasy" (broadsides) Kansas City Voices, Summer 2022 
• "O God", "Cast", "On the Eve of Our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary" Many Nice Donkeys, Volume 1, Issue 2, Summer 2022
• "Bad Friday", Rattle, Issue #76, Volume 28. No 2, Summer 2022 - Featured on "Critique of the Week" by Tim Green, July 8, 2022 (starting at minute 39:50)
• "A Sign" Lenten Reader, Year C, Episcopal Charities, Spring 2022 (issue also includes artwork "Altar", "I Must Sleep In my Yet Not Yet")
• "san tto kki", "Rats", "In Front of the Cherry Blossom", "Kimjang", Radar Poetry, Coniston Prize Issue, Oct 2021
• "Witness" Sonora Review, April 2021
• "The Lord Appears to               " is introduction poem to CIVA show, Again & Again, paired with Leticia Huckaby's  photograph Ask, Seek, Knock
• "Resurrection" poem included in CIVA show, Again & Again, collaboration with Keith Barker's photograph "Stone of Help"
• "Elijah on Mt. Carmel" and "I Am" Lenten Reader, Year B, Episcopal Charities, Spring 2021
• "The Children" and "On that Night in March", Sarabande Writing Labs Vol. 18 & 19, TAUNT 
• "Han / 한", The Portland Review, June 2020
• "Obadiah and Elijah" and "Elijah", Lenten Reader, Year A, Episcopal Charities, Spring 2020
• "Elijah and the Widow" and "Elijah Fed by Ravens", Blackbird, Fall 2019, Vol. 18, No. 2
• "Nobody's Mother", Rabbit Catastrophe Review #015, Fall 2019
• "On to Horeb", Free State Review, Summer 2019
• "Vulture," Brights Wings Poetry Contest, Makers and Mystics Podcast, August 2019, Third Prize Winner
• "The Mother of All Mothers", "Memory of the Mother", "Letter from the Mother", "The Mother in the Wild" and "The Mother", Jelly Bucket, Issue Nine, 2019 (featured poet)
• "Portrait: David" and "Landscape: Victoria Park Community Center" Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith, 2019
• "The Aliens Seek to Understand Pain," Booth, July 12, 2019
• "The Aliens Consider the Bright She" and "The Aliens Watch a Mother Dream", Bluestem Magazine, December 2018
• "Elijah Fed by Ravens" and "The Way to Horeb", Yemassee, Issue 25.1, Spring 2018
• "meditation", Writing in Place: McCormick's Creek State Park, 2017
• "Paraclete - The One Who Answers the Cry" Tupelo Quarterly, TQ1, October 2013, winner of Tupelo Quarterly Inaugural Poetry Award
• "Compound - Freetown, Sierra Leone" The Los Angeles Review, Volume 12, Fall 2012, winner of Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award
• "What's Left" Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought, February 2012