publications

forthcoming

two poems // Poetry Northwest

two poems // MAYDAY Magazine

2024

two poems // Cincinnati Review

two poems // diode poetry journal

“When your mother loses another apartment” // Copper Nickel

2023

full-length collection: It’s not over once you figure it out // Black Ocean

“To Narrate a Life as a Measure of Its Own Living: On Reading Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes” // Annulet

“We all hear prophecy from the canopy” // Sundog Lit

“Imperfections & other promises” // Brevity

2022

“we are more than mere endurance” // Poetry Daily

two poems // Prolit 7

two poems // Crazyhorse 101

“it’s not over once you figure it out” // Denver Quarterly 56.1

“Every person I imagine becomes fabric” // Passages North

2021

chapbook: everything saved will be last // Black Lawrence Press

“the slave who discovered new mexico” // Autofocus Lit

three poems // ANMLY 31

“what happens to the mountains you forget” // Oversound 7

“why i buy my corn in the freezer aisle” // Perhappened 11

2020

“what words won’t put me in the ground” // Protean Magazine

“My mother had to tell me” // Sixth Finch

“We are more than mere endurance” // Crazyhorse 97

“the stories (that) aren’t told” // Fence 36

four poems // SocialText Journal

2019

“You Only Trust Safe Senders” // Black Warrior Review

“uncommissioned elegy for the children of children” // Sixth Finch

“the future was better before” // Pleiades 39.1

“for their tongues” // Cotton Xenomorph

three poems // Puerto del Sol Black Voices Series

2018

“octoroon” // Ninth Letter 14.2

“Another Truish Story” // The Journal 42.3

“red gentry” // Cimarron Review 204

2017

“quadroon” // The Missouri Review Online

“today” // Hobart

distance decay review // Rain Taxi

Recognition

Finalist // 2023 Noemi Press Book Contest

Finalist // 2021 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize

Finalist // 2021 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize

Finalist // 2020 Autumn House Chapbook Contest

Runner-up // 2019 Black River Chapbook Competition

Finalist // 2019 Autumn House Chapbook Contest

Finalist // 2019 St. Lawrence Book Award

Finalist // 2019 The Hudson Prize