Poetry Publications

SELECTION of POEMS IN PRINT

Lucid Moose, Like A Girl: Perspectives on Feminine Identity: War for Dinner
Hysteria Anthology: womb walker
Paper Swans Press, The Chronicles of Eve: Superstition
Unrequited: An Anthology of Love Poems about Inanimate Objects: Ode to Cigarettes and The Patio
White Stag, Neogoddesses: Home Lament, Things I Don’t Tell My Shrink, and Down By The Wate
Come As You Are (ELJ Publications, 90s anthology): Thelma & Louise & Me
A Shadow Map Anthology (Civil Coping Mechanisms): Boys, What Have You Done to Me and My Value as a Teenage Girl
They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing, Black Lawrence Press, co-authored with Jennifer MacBain-Stephens
Written in Arlington anthology: Ode to Fairlington and My Son Tells Me About Lockdown Drills at Abingdon Elementary

First Place in the Bettendorf Public Library’s "Mysteries of the Ordinary Poetry Prize" judged by Robert Pinsky (2000)
Finalist in the 2006 Arlington Reads Poetry Contest
Two poems nominated for Best of the Net 2015 by Red Savina Review
Nominated for 2016 Pushcart Prize by Black Cat Moon Press
Semi-finalist in Black Lawrence Press’s 2017 St. Lawrence Book Award
Wigleaf Long List for “Becoming” in Gone Lawn, Summer 2018
Best of the Net nomination by Rockvale Review for “Eulogy in the Dark,” Fall 2018
Best of the Net nomination by Arcturus for “The One Where Wifey Understands,” Fall 2020
Semi-finalist for “Dirty Words” manuscript for Sundress Publications, 2020

I once had a poem on the menu for a restaurant called The Blue Cat in Rock Island, IL
Rogue Agent: I Feel Empowered When I Wear
Rogue Agent: Where I Create
Lament for the Dead Project: Jonathan Sanders
Tupelo Press 30/30 February 2020 Participant
Judged student creative writing contest for Northwestern State University, March 2021

Under The Sign Of The Bear Reading Series, September 26, 2015 with Lesley Mcilroy, Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, and Sarah Winn in Pittsburgh, PA
Unrequited Love Book Release, June 17, 2016 at Upshur Books in Washington, DC
Reading for Northwestern State University (upcoming April 15, 2021)