poet // author of Strange Flesh
I’m a poet living in the Ozarks with my husband & son. I’m the author of the chapbook Strange Flesh (Quarterly West, 2018) and have poems in The Adroit Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Nashville Review, RHINO, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and others. My work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets and was a semi-finalist for the 2019 Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize.
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
Shenandoah, “Invasive Species,” “Poem to My Son as Darth Vader,” & “Dead Languages”
Ruminate, “The Two-Body Problem”
2019
Beloit Poetry Journal, “Anointed” & “Mud” (print)
The Adroit Journal, “Jesus Bug“
Foundry, “Skinner’s Analysis of Verbal Behavior: Listener Discriminations“
Cream City Review, “The Book of Revelation” (print)
The Lonely Crowd, “In Whom We Live & Move & Have Our Being” & “Asked to Be a Sperm Donor, I List the Pros & Cons” (print)
Parentheses Journal, “& Delilah” (nominated for Best New Poets)
2018
Tinderbox Poetry Journal, “Upon Being Asked if I Have Baby Fever,” “Speaking in Tongues,” “Ars Poetica,” & “How to Make a Gunbox Hymnal“
Radar Poetry, “Smokewood Apiary“
Dirty Paws Poetry Review, “The Congregation Sings ‘How Great Thou Art’“
The Boiler, “Augury“
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” (also in print)
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