Awards & Publications
AWARDS AND HONORS:
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Ohio Poet Laureate 2020-2026
Pillars of Prosperity Fellow, Foundation For Appalachian Ohio (2020-present)
Artist-In-Residence, Writing the Land (Bison Hollow Reserve, Hocking Hills, OH) (2022-24)
Artist-In-Residence, Wexner Center for The Arts (2021-23)
Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship 2021
Ohio Poet of the Year 2020
Athens Ohio Poet Laureate 2017-2019
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BOOKS:
Dirt Songs, EastOver Press (January 2024),
-2025 IPPY BRONZE Award for Poetry
-2025 WINNER Feathered Quill Award
-2024 WINNER: POTY Author of the Year Award
-WINNER 2024 STORYTRADE AWARD
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Alone in the House of My Heart, Ohio University Swallow Press, August, 2022
-2024 WINNER: LEGACY AWARD;
-2023 WINNER: ABF BEST BOOK AWARD/NARRATIVE POETRY;
-FINALIST: NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARD/POETRY 2023
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Women Speak, Volumes One - Ten, Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, March 2024
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I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing, Ohio's Appalachian Voices, Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, March 2022
-WINNER: BEST BOOK AWARD/POETRY ANTHOLOGY/AMERICAN BOOK FEST 2023
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A Place So Deep Inside America It Can't Be Seen, Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, April 2020
-WINNER: OHIO POET OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020
CHAPBOOK:
Serving, Revised Edition, (Crisis Chronicles Press 2020)
Serving, Crisis Chronicles Press, (Crisis Chronicles Press 2018)
-RUNNER UP, YELLOW CHAIR REVIEW CHAPBOOK CONTEST
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Pushcart Prize Nominations:
2024 SWIMM, Another Weather Report
2024 One Art, A History of Fireworks
2023 Atticus Review, The Backside of Lonely
2023 Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Vol. 15, Nighthawk
2022 About Place Journal, Inclinations
2021 Aeolian Harp, Vol 7, Hooper Ridge Girl
2020 Sheila-Na-Gig, Trigger Warning
2019 Lascaux Review, Serving
2019 The Boom Project, Everything Tilts
2018 Crisis Chronicles Press, Serving
2016 Gyroscope Review, Middle East Veteran's Wife
2015 A Narrow Fellow, I Knew Bad News Had Come
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Best of the Net Nominations:
2022 Cutleaf, Saving Sgt. Billings
2022 Sky Island Review, Obituary
2021 Cultural Daily, The Weeds In This Garden
2020 Sheila-Na-Gig, Trigger Warning
2020 Infection House, Wash Your Hands Child
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Touchstone Award Nomination:
2022 MacQueen's Quinterly, That Plus Fifty Cents
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2022 New Ohio Review/Moveable Contest:
1st Place
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2021 Lascaux Prize in Poetry:
1st Place​
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2020 Sheila-Na-Gig online Spring Contest:
1st Place
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2018-19 Visible Poetry Project:
Selected Winner
2018 Still: The Journal Poetry Contest:
1st Place
2018 Hocking Hills Poetry Festival:
1st Place
2017 National Federation of State Poetry Societies
BlackBerryPeach Spoken and Heard Competition:
1st Place
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PUBLICATIONS:
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ANTHOLOGIES:
Light Enters the Grove (Kent State University Press 2024)
Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel (Dos Madres Press 2017, 2018, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Anthology of Appalachian Writers, (Shepherd University, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
Spread the Word, A Pandemic Open Mic Anthology, Jacar Press 2021
Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Dorothy Anderson XIV, Shepherd University, 2021
Is it Hot in Here or is it Just Me? Women Over 40 Write on Aging, Beautiful Cadaver Project, 2020
The Boom Project: Voices of a Generation, Butler Books, 2019
Fearless Women, Mountain State Press 2019
All We Can Hold, Sage Hill Press, 2016
To Unsnare Time’s Warp, Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2016
Delirious, Night Ballet Press, 2016
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JOURNALS/PUBLICATIONS:
Verse Daily, Main Street Rag, Rattle, Rise up Review, Crab Orchard Review, LA Times, Stirring, Still: The Journal, Chiron Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Poetry South, Rascal, Poetry24, Gyroscope Review, Poetry City USA, Looking at Appalachia: Call and Response, Pudding House Magazine, Yellow Chair Review, Rock and Sling, Heartland Review, Clover, A Literary Rag, Third Wednesdays, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Red Earth Review, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Stoneboat, Digital Papercut, Infection House, Califragile, Kudzu, New Verse News, Barbaric Yelp, A Narrow Fellow, Poetry X Hunger, US 1 Worksheets, Sheila-Na-Gig online, Thimble, Calyx Journal, Heartwood, Delta Poetry Review, MacQueen's Quinterly, Writers Resist, Moveable, Pirenes Fountain, Lascaux Review, Cultural Weekly, DC Life Magazine, Thimble, Sky Island Journal, ONE ART, Cutleaf, New Ohio Review, Vox Populi, ONE, SWWIM, Atticus Review, About Place Journal, PBS American Portrait, The NY Times, World Literature Today, American Book Review, Katie Couric's Wake-Up Call