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selected nonfiction

“Let’s Not Be Obsessed with Speed, Okay?” Forthcoming from Porter House Review

“This is How We Scream,” Forthcoming from Two Hawks Quarterly

We’re Still Here,” Wheaton Magazine, Winter 2022

“The Wizard of Asheville,” Forthcoming from Sweet Lit: A Literary Confection

“Recipe,” Capsule Stories, December 2021

Witness and Wanderlust,Wheaton Magazine, Spring 2021

Radical, But Ordinary,” Wheaton Magazine, Spring 2020

“Review: Strangers to Temptation,” The Chattahoochee Review, Spring 2018 Vol. XXXVIII, #1

Poetry

“Advent,” “Advent II,” and “Advent III,” Ekstasis, December 25, 2021

“After Miscarriage,” Literary Mama, July 2021

“Circe Dances,” Hotel Amerika, Spring 2021

“Don’ts for Debutantes,” Hotel Amerika, Spring 2021

“When my husband needs to practice a physical exam,” Autofocus, Winter 2020

The World Is Taboo,” The Quarantine Collection, Spring 2020

“Mater,” Z Publishing House: Florida’s Best Emerging Poets 2019 Anthology

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Awards

Finalist, 2021 Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction

Finalist (Fiction) Best of the Net Anthology 2020

AWP 2018 National Program Directors’ Prize for Design — Kodon Spring 2017 Edition (Editor in Chief)

AWP Intro Journal Award Nomination (Nominated by the University of Central Florida)

Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Family Matters Contest Nov./Dec. 2017

Longlist Finalist, Smokelong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction

Non-Traditional Literacy Engagement Award, University of Central Florida, 2017

First Prize, Emerging Voices, College of DuPage, 2017

First Prize, Lowell-Grabill Creative Writing Contest, 2017

Second Prize, Lowell-Grabill Creative Writing Contest, 2015

Third Prize, Lowell-Grabill Creative Writing Contest, 2016