Upcoming Events
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Nominations & Recognition
Pushcart Prize Nomination (2022) for poem "A Burning Ship Carrying Luxury Cars is Adrift in the Atlantic Ocean"
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NCSU Poetry Contest Finalist (2021) for poem "Absence of Memory and a Pile of F Words"
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Best New Poets Nomination (2017) for poem "When Trying to Trick Me, Do"
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Pushcart Prize Nomination (2017) for poem "When Trying to Trick Me, Do"
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Sundress Press Best of the Net Nomination (2016) "The Gift of Forgetting"
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3rd Place, Indy Annual Poetry Contest, 2015
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"After My Great-Grandmother's Funeral" traveled on the R-Line throughout April for the Raleigh Review's Poetry on Buses project, 2015
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Runner Up, Dallas Poets Community Chapbook Contest (for unpublished collection Between the Blue), 2014
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Finalist, NC Humanities Council Linda Flowers Literary Award, 2013
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Nominee, AWP Intro Journals Project, 2013
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Honorable Mention, Andrea Saunders Gereighty Poetry Award, 2012
Residencies
Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro NC
Spring and Summer 2015
Art Farm Nebraska, Marquette NB
Summer 2011
Past Readings, Panels, & Artist Talks
Featured Reader, Aloud Reading Series, New Orleans, LA, Winter 2024
Writers Talk w/ Passengers Press, Virtual, Summer 2021
West End Poetry Festival Reading, Virtual, Fall 2020
Pandemic Poetry Virtual Reading Series, Spring 2020
Featured Performer, The Traumedy Show, Pittsboro, NC, Winter 2019
West End Poetry Festival, Carrboro, NC, Fall 2019
Indy's Poetry Contest Winners' Reading @ So & So Books Raleigh, NC, Spring 2015
Artist Talk @ Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC, Spring 2015
Hands On Literary Fest Reading @ Maison St. Charles, New Orleans, LA, Winter 2014
Featured Reader, Ladyfest, New Orleans, LA, Fall 2014
Panel Discussion “What Are Editors Looking For,” Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Fairhope, AL, Spring 2013
Featured Reader, River Writers Series, Baton Rouge, LA, Fall 2012
Featured Reader, Ladyfest, New Orleans, LA, Fall 2012
Featured Reader, Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Fairhope, AL, Spring 2011, 2012, and 2013
Class reading at the Maple Leaf, New Orleans, LA, Winter 2010, 2011, and 2012
Panel Discussion “When Two Become One: Merging of Identities in New Orleans’ Public Colleges”
Louisiana Association of College Composition
Lafayette, LA, Spring 2011