| poetry |

  • “Ars Poetica with Morel Mushrooms,” “Elegy” — like a field

  • “On Discovering My Ex-Partner’s Porn Collection” — Salt Hill

  • “At the informal participants’ reading I am drawn to the way language lights” — The Missouri Review Poem of the Week

  • “Makahiya,” “The Babaylan Takes My Brother’s Blood” — They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets (Blue Oak Press, 2022)

  • “From the Inventory of Images I Cannot Unsee” — Passages North

  • “Inheritance” — Guesthouse

  • “Elegizing” — Poets.Org

  • “Suppose the Aswang,” “Papasyal” — VIDA Review

  • “I want a myth about a queer, brown Helen” — The Pinch

  • “Domino’s Pizza and Rice,” “Portrait of an Addict with Two Spoons” — Cave Wall

  • “Self-Portrait as Hammer,” “Maria Labó Addresses Her Husband” — Pleiades

  • “Ars Poetica,” “Amor Fati” — Hayden’s Ferry Review

  • “Reunion with Rain and Radio” — Sycamore Review

  • “Psalm for Photos on Zoë Kravitz’s Instagram and the Busted-Up Watermelon Between Her Legs that Brought Me Closer to God” — Tin House Online

  • “Clean” — Four Way Review & Bull City Press Broadsides

  • “Pinning Up the Dead” — Salamander

  • “With Nothing to Bury” — The Collagist

| prose |

  • “Guiding Us through Grief: With Gratitude for Edward Hirsch and His Expansive Body of Work” — Chapter 16

  • “Alien Miss: Poems by Carlina Duan” — Nashville Review

  • “Reaching for Joy: Interview with Toi Derricotte” — Chapter 16

  • “Mythmaker” — Hyphen Magazine

  • “Call Your Body Home: Interview with Nickole Brown” — Nashville Review

  • “A Fortune for Your Disaster: Poems by Hanif Abdurraqib” — Nashville Review

  • “Appointed Rounds: Essays by Michael McFee” — Nashville Review

| features |

| pleasant surprises |

  • 2023 Unbound Book Festival Emerging Poet Award

  • Finalist, 2022-2023 Jake Adam York Prize

  • Recipient, 2022 Summer Residency, Storyknife Writers Retreat

  • 2021 Kathryn Sedberry Poetry Prize, Vanderbilt University

  • Scholarship Recipient, 2021 Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices

  • 2021 Academy of American Poets Prize, Vanderbilt University (“Elegizing,” selected by Tiana Clark)

  • 2021 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Poetry Contest (“Meditations on the Barely Spoken,” selected by Paisley Rekdal)

    • Watch the recorded reading here

  • Scholarship Recipient, 2020 Tin House Virtual Craft Intensive Workshop

  • 2020 Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award, Center for Woman Writers (“From the River,” selected by Alison Stine)

  • Scholarship Recipient, 2019 Summer Residency, Sundress Academy for the Arts

  • 2013 Ann Burrus/Academy of American Poets Prize, UNC-Chapel Hill

  • 2012 Blanche Armfield Prize for Poetry, UNC-Chapel Hill

  • 2009 Thomas Wolfe Scholarship Recipient, UNC-Chapel Hill