Essays and Articles
“Finding My Asexual Identity in My Thirties” in Catapult magazine
Selected Poems
“Mama, I’m in Deep,” “Hysterectomy/Recovery,” and “Beyond Love” at the Academy of American Poets
“After the Anthropocene” in Just Place
“Amber Alert” in The Shallow Ends
“American Beatitudes” in Dusie
“Another Sad Sack of a Spring,” “Fever / Dream,” “To My Younger Self,” “Asexual Ode to Dolly Parton,” and “Girl Lessons” in Limp Wrist
“Beatitudes” in 8 Poems
“The Beautiful and Glorious” in the Southern Indiana Review (along with a note about the writing of the poem)
“Beneath the Highway, Between Two Nights“ in the museum of americana
“Collect of the Evening” and “Saint Yonder” in South Florida Poetry Journal
“Coming of Age” in SWIMM
“Convalescence” in Defunct Magazine
“Directional Points” in the Jet Fuel Review
“The Dog You Feed” in South Writ Large
“Domesticated Animals” in Bear Review
“Elegy” in the Pine Hills Review
“the eleusinian mysteries” in The Plentitudes
“The Exiled Speaks” and “girlblooded” in Interim
“Finishing School” in the Black Warrior Review
“Fire Class” in Cagibi
“glut” and “in america the summer stretches out” in the tiny journal
“God’s Voice Was Not In” in Waxing and Waning
“Hysterectomy/Recovery,” “The Imposition of Ashes,” and “Yes, I Would Like to Imagine the Self” in TriQuarterly
“I’m Building a House,” “Interior Design,” and “A Story about Ashes” in Poetry Is Currency
“In the Springtime of Her Voodoo,” “In America We Have Only the Present Tense,” “Christmas, 2016,” and “Arlington” in Glass: A Journal of Poetry
“Inpatient Procedure” and “Poem Written While Waiting for the Biopsy Results” in Invisible City
“In Deep” in the Breakwater Review
“A Lack of Lustful Inclinations,” “Southern, Belled,” “A Life Constructed Disappears,” and “Sunday Schooled” in Permafrost
“Lateral Cut” in the Nashville Review
“Litany” in Sepia
“The Liturgy of the Hours” in Witness
“Nomenclature” in RockPaperPoem
“Poem for the Self I Was Before the Hysterectomy” in Variant Lit
“Social Media” in Pacifica Literary Review
“Taking the Back Way, Early Evening” in the Split Rock Review
“Theism,” originally published in the Sugar House Review, featured on Verse Daily
“A Theory of Falling” in Pangyrus
“An Unmothered Guide to Grief,” “The Plight Troth,” and “Shower Season” in Nice Cage
“Vernal” in River Mouth Review
“Vespers, Birdsong” in The West Review
“To Winter” and “In Midlife I Feel a New Hunger” in Birdcoat Quarterly
“X” in Waccamaw
Poems have also appeared (or soon will appear) in the following print journals and anthologies:
5×5, 32poems, Adanna Literary Journal, Aesthetica, American Poetry Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Best American Poetry 2015, Billet Doux (Dancing Girl Press’ epistolary book arts anthology), Briar Cliff Review, Broken Bridge Review, Cave Wall, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Columbia Journal, Comstock Review, Conduit, Copper Nickel, Court Green, Crab Orchard Review, Cranky, Crazyhorse, Cream City Review, dANDelion, Eclipse, Fairy Tale Review, Feminist Studies, Found Poetry Review, F(r)iction, Green Mountains Review, The Greensboro Review, Grist: The Journal for Writers, Helen, Hiram Poetry Review, Inch, Indiana Review, Jabberwock Review, James Dickey Review, The Journal, Lilliput Review, Lost Horse Press’ Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse, the minnesota review, the Mississippi Review, narrative (dis)continuities: prose experiments by younger american writers, Nassau Review, the New England Review, New Madrid, Nimrod, Ninth Letter, Noon: Journal of the Short Poem, Passages North, The Pinch, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poet Lore, POOL: A Journal of Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Printer’s Devil Review, Puerto Del Sol, Quarterly West, Quiddity, Rabbit Ears: TV Poems, Red Mountain Review, Redivider, The 2010 Rhysling Anthology, Salamander, the Seneca Review, Shenandoah, Show and Tell: Writers on Writing (Revised and Expanded), So to Speak, Southern Humanities Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Tapestry, Textlandia, Triquarterly, the Vassar Review, VERSE, Volt, Whiskey Island, and the Yalobusha Review.
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