Writing
Poetry
- “The Abduction,” forthcoming, storySouth
- “The Snake,” forthcoming, Memoir (and)
- “Pierced,” Cream City Review
- “It Happened Long Ago,” Tar River Poetry
- “Lineage,” Quarterly West, Issue 69
- “My Girl,” The Pinch, Issue 30.2
- “Love Poem” & “Other Women,” Minnetonka Review
- “Near Taken,” Waccamaw, Issue 5 (Spring 2010)
- “Summer Strike,” The Collagist, Issue 9 (April 2010)
- “Lament for a Frat Boy” & “Lifetime Movies” PANK, Issue 4
- “Lament for a Frat Boy,” “Lifetime Movies,” appeared first at PANK Online, along with “Drunk Sestina for Eddie Money” and “Ode to the King”
Nonfiction
- “Before Adrian Grenier Got Famous,” Barrelhouse, Issue 10
- “Mother Madonna,” Madonna & Me: Women Writers on the Queen of Pop, forthcoming 2012, Soft Skull Press
- “Tell Me If You’re Lying,” fringe, Issue 11
- “Tell Me If You’re Lying,” Best of the Web 2008, Dzanc Books
Awards
Best New Poets, nomination, 2011
Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2011
Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2010
Best New Poets Nomination, 2010
Best New Poets Nomination, 2009
Best New Poets Nomination, 2008
Academy of American Poets Prize, runner-up, judged by Faith Shearin, 2008
Interviews & other miscellaneous
- Interview@ the Collagist
- Interview@ fringe magazine
- My playlist during the making of “Tell Me If You’re Lying,” Largeheartedboy
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