Education
M.F.A., Creative Writing (Poetry), Purdue University
B.A., English, Lewis & Clark College
Publications
Book
Swale. New Issues Poetry & Prose (November 2020).
Poems
“Ellsworth Schist.” Gulf Coast 36.2 (Summer/Fall 2024)
“Cobble.” Southern Humanities Review 57.1 (Spring 2024)
“Is Wrack, Is Rak, Is Wreckage.” Southern Humanities Review 57.1 (Spring 2024)
“Though from Here I Can’t Smell the Smoke.” Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day (May 6, 2023).
“As Lamb in Field.” Reprint. American Poets 60 (Spring/Summer 2021).
“The Lapis Lazuli in which She Dreamed.” The Gettysburg Review 33.1 (Summer 2020).
“The Mermaids at Weeki Wachee.” The Gettysburg Review 33.1 (Summer 2020).
“On This One Acre of the World.” Poetry Northwest XV.I (Summer and Fall 2020).
“Forest Rising from Its Name.” Cimarron Review 210 (Winter 2020).
“When Living in Bear Country.” Cimarron Review 210 (Winter 2020).
“Ghost Forest.” The Missouri Review 42.2 (Summer 2019).
“‘I Have Written Myself into a Tropical Glow.’” The Missouri Review 42.2 (Summer 2019).
“Scurvy.” The Missouri Review 42.2 (Summer 2019).
“Swale.” The Missouri Review 42.2 (Summer 2019).
“You Like to Think the Whales Are Listening.” The Missouri Review 42.2 (Summer 2019).
“Steller and the Sea Cow.” The Southern Review 55.3 (Summer 2019).
“So I Try to Picture the Priests.” Five Points 19.2 (Summer 2019).
“A Small Gift.” Image 101 (Summer 2019).
“Reliquary.” Image 101 (Summer 2019).
“Alice in the Cloisters.” Western Humanities Review 73.1 (Spring 2019).
“Calenture.” Boulevard 34.2&3 (Spring 2019).
—, reprinted online at Verse Daily (June 10, 2019).
“Alice in Millefleurs.” Third Coast 46 (Fall/Winter 2018).
“Among the Graves.” The Gettysburg Review 31.3 (Autumn 2018).
“Swampland. Bog. Mare aux Songes. ‘Sea of Dreams.’” Kenyon Review 37.3 (May/June 2015).
“Out the Birds, Out.” Kenyon Review 37.3 (May/June 2015).
“Seeds, or the Collapsed Bodies.” Kenyon Review 37.3 (May/June 2015).
“So Legged, So Footed, and Who’s Left to Care.” Kenyon Review 37.3 (May/June 2015);
—, reprinted online at Poetry Daily (May 12, 2015).
“Oh, Dodo. You Can’t.” The Kenyon Review 36.3 (Summer 2014).
“Dodo, Duodo, Sluggard.” The Kenyon Review 36.3 (Summer 2014).
“You, Again.” The Kenyon Review 36.3 (Summer 2014).
“To Insomnia, Without Curtain or Shade.” West Branch (Winter 2014).
“From an Age of Sail.” Barrow Street (Winter 2013/14).
“Flock or Herd, They Came to Me.” Barrow Street (Winter 2013/14).
“In Sleep We Outlast.” American Letters & Commentary 24 (Summer 2013).
“Self-Portrait as Knock-Kneed.” The Cincinnati Review 9.2 (Winter 2013).
“Self-Portrait as Twin Horses.” The Cincinnati Review 9.2 (Winter 2013).
“Self-Portrait as Foxhound.” Crazyhorse 82 (Fall 2012).
“Self-Portrait as Lamb and Ear.” Crazyhorse 82 (Fall 2012).
“Lampshade Cue Stick Acrobat Dust.” Beloit Poetry Journal 63.1 (Fall 2012).
Residencies, Grants, and Awards
Finalist, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment 2022 Book Award, Environmental Creative Writing
Artist-in-Residence, Acadia National Park
Editor’s Choice, New Issues Poetry & Prose
Artist Residency, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology
Artist Fellowship, North Carolina Arts Council
Artist Residency, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences
Regional Artist Project Grant, North Carolina Arts & Science Council
Hillary Gravendyk Memorial Scholarship, Community of Writers
Scholarship, Key West Literary Seminars
Scholarship, Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop
Areas of Interest
Poetry
Creative Writing
Documentary / Investigative Poetics
Ecopoetry
The Long Poem
Translation
Courses Taught
ENGL 6073 Documentary Poetry
ENGL 5202 Writing Poetry
ENGL 4750 English Honors Seminar: Writing the Earth
ENGL 4202 Advanced Poetry Writing
ENGL 3202 Intermediate Fiction Writing
ENGL 3201 Intermediate Poetry Writing
ENGL 2128 Introduction to Fiction Writing
ENGL 2127 Introduction to Poetry Writing
ENGL 2126 Introduction to Creative Writing