poet
publications
"Mayo Clinic Room 705, My Grandma Takes Communion"
Banyan Review, forthcoming.
"Ode to the Ones Teaching Me Who I Can Be Unabashedly"
All the Lives We Ever Lived: Vol 5, forthcoming with Lighthouse Writers.
"Candy Cigarettes"
LMNL Arts, forthcoming.
"For Once I Pretend I Am Not Afraid of Tenderness"
Peauxdunque Review, forthcoming.
"In Utah the Highway Markers are Beehives" and "The Night Our Parents Meet"
Fever Dreamer Magazine, 2024.
"standing in the green-tiled kitchen of the farmhouse," "LOVE ARC," "second puberty," "what is the going rate for love?" and "can't help myself"
Everybody Press Review, Issue 3, 2023.
"something like a childhood memory"
Spit Poet Publishing, Volume 13, 2023.
"how we hold on to youth" and "Ode to Blue Collar Hands"
Peauxdunque Review, Issue 8, 2022.
"thursday prophecy"
Coffee People, Issue 19 , 2022.
"in autumn i am tender"
Mid-Heaven Magazine, Issue 7, 2022.
untitled visual poetry spread and interview
POLLUX Zine, Issue 9, 2020.
awards
"Candy Cigarettes"
Chosen as one of seven finalists for the 2024 Patty Friedmann Writing Competition, hosted by LMNL Arts and One Book One New Orleans, September 2024
Chosen by Forrest Gander as Finalist in the Poetry Category, March 2024
Selected as one of five finalists from hundreds of applicants. One reviewer praised the "unique voice, style, use of white space, [and] nice sense of pace."
Penrose Poetry Prize for LGBTQIA+ Writers
Chosen by Lip Manegio as an Honorable Mention for the 2023 Penrose Prize with Death Rattle / Oroboro Lit Journal, February 2024
Chosen by Ariel Francisco as Winner in the Poetry Category of the 2023 Patty Friedmann Writing Contest, November 2023
"Ariel writes that the winning poem is 'beautiful in its vulnerability and vivid imagery. You can almost hear the heart beating in each line. I found myself rereading it over and over again. The poem crystalizes that sense of tenderness for us to see, hear, and almost touch with stunning effectiveness.'”
"Memory, On Ice"
Chosen by Ariel Francisco as an Honorable Mention in the Poetry Category of the 2023 Patty Friedmann Writing Contest, November 2023
november (it's only just begun)
3rd Place in the California State Poetry Society's Monthly Contest, January 2023
Chosen by Skye Jackson as Honorable Mentions in the Poetry Category of the 2022 Patty Friedmann Writing Contest, December 2022