Speaking Engagements

Foxcroft School’s Poetry Festival: Key Note Speaker

Awards and Nominations

Pushcart Prize Nomination 2017: By Wild Horses: Women on Fire (ELJ) for “The Body, After”

Pushcart Prize Nomination 2017: By Tinderbox for “Carolina Wrens”

Best of the Net Nomination 2016: By Still: The Journal for ““Bury the Lede”

Pushcart Prize Nomination 2015: By Tar River for “August Incarnate”

Pushcart Prize Nomination 2014: By Switchback for “Topography”

Competitions

jmww Claudia Emerson Chapbook Award 2016: Semifinalist for Visitation

Sundress Chapbook Competition 2016: Semifinalist for Visitation

Grayson Books 2015 Chapbook Competition: Finalist for Bury the Lede

Oregon Poetry Association Competition 2014:  Honorable mention for “Matins for the Poet, Joshua Poteat”

Southern Writers Symposium – Emerging Writers Contest: Finalist for “Lake Cheston”

Conferences

Sewanee Writers’ Conference 2014- MFA/MA/PhD Scholarship

Breadloaf Writers’ Conference 2009- Contributor