NEWs
“Longing” wins the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest
November 15, 2024
It was announced today that I’m the winner of the 2024 Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest along with Billy Lezra (nonfiction) and Susan Bartolme (fiction). Thank you to Ploughshares for honoring my poem “Longing.”
Judge Porsha Olayiwola writes, “‘Longing’ manages to instill within its reader the same essence that the poem itself is after. That is, we read this poem overwhelmed in a sense of longing. The ellipses, ending or starting every line, offer a continuation and anticipation, which mirrors the content of the poem. Because of this, the poem is boundless, the writer offers us an infinite number of possibilities in our reading and understanding of want, longing and loss.”
“Longing” will be published in the upcoming issue of Ploughshares along with an interview. Doesn’t feel real!
Fellowship at the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy
April 18, 2024
From March 19 to April 18, I was a fellow-in-residence at the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy. I’m so grateful to the Foundation and the staff for their care, kindness, and support of my work. Much love also to the other fellows—I continue to be inspired by their art.
While I was there, the Foundation commissioned the incredible Laura Bianchi to take photos of the fellows. Check out her work on her website and Instagram.
New England Review Award for Emerging Writers
February 26, 2024
I was honored to be named a finalist for the New England Review’s 2024 Award for Emerging Writers for my poems “Bathers with a Turtle” and “Self-Portrait as Mural of the American Frontier” from Volume 44.1. Congrats to Annie Wenstrup for winning—her poem “Ghost Pixels” in Volume 44.4 is heat.
You can see the full list of finalists here.
“Where I Am White” wins a 2024 Pushcart Prize
November 6, 2023
Utterly floored that “Where I Am White” was not only nominated by Ploughshares for a Pushcart Prize but won! 😱😱😱
Check out Pushcart Prize XLVIII: Best of the Small Presses, 2024 here.
I became best friends with Blair
August 20, 2012
…without whom this website would not exist.