poet // author of Strange Flesh
I’m a poet living in Fayetteville, Arkansas with my husband & son. I’m the author of the chapbook Strange Flesh (Quarterly West, 2018) and have some poems in Nashville Review, Ninth Letter, RHINO, The Journal, The Blueshift Journal, and others. My work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets.
author photo credit: Lauren Ethridge
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“Strange Flesh is a truly gorgeous poetry collection that gives us so much atmosphere and energy. I found myself wanting to read each poem again and again. Christ-haunted, lyrically brilliant, Strange Flesh is one of those rare collections I want to read aloud to myself at night.” —Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased
forthcoming
Tinderbox Poetry Journal, “How to Make a Gunbox Hymnal,” “Ars Poetica,” “Speaking in Tongues,” & “Upon Being Asked if I Have Baby Fever”
The Boiler, “Augury”
2018
Radar Poetry, “Smokewood Apiary”
Dirty Paws Poetry Review, “The Congregation Sings ‘How Great Thou Art’”
Duende, “An Unnamed Stage of Grief”
RHINO, “Something in the Air” (print)
No Tokens, “The Hypnotist Loses Concentration” (print)
2017
The Journal, “Love Poem in Which My Mother Does Not Appear”
The Blueshift Journal, “Don’t quench the spirit,”
DIALOGIST, “Poem to My Son as T-Rex” (nominated for the Pushcart Prize)
Nashville Review, “Ishmael in the Wilderness”
Ninth Letter, “Church Camp” (nominated for Best New Poets)
Glass: A Journal of Poetry, “The Language of Birds” (nominated for Best New Poets)
Noble / Gas Qtrly, “Decalogue”
Storyscape, “1994”
Zone 3, “Communion” (print)
2016
[PANK], “Charismata“
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