Editing Experience
Managing Editor, Doubleback Review, March 2019-present
Managing Editor, The Wardrobe by Sundress Publications, April 2021-present
Associate Poetry Editor, Stirring: A Literary Collection, March 2016-present
Guest Editor, Poets Resist by Glass Poetry Press, July 2018
Curator, The Wardrobe Best Dressed by Sundress Publications, January 2018
Associate Poetry Editor, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, December 2016-January 2018
Poetry Reader, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, September 2016-December 2016
Associate Poetry Editor, Indiana University South Bend’s Analecta literary journal, 2016
Guest editor, December 2015 issue of Stirring: A Literary Collection
Curator, June 2015 “Poem of the Week” at TheThe Poetry Blog
Associate Editor, Indiana University South Bend Undergraduate Research Journal of History, 2015
Selected Poems
Marriage as a Poem Between Two Skeletons – Crab Fat Magazine
More Noble Truths and The Rules Now – The Humanist
Hush, Child. Let the Forest do its Growing. and Prelude to the Wake – The Indianapolis Review, Issue 3
On the Occasion of a Bombing, I Just Can’t Bring Myself to Endorse Murder – The Hunger, Issue 1
Experimentation by Halves – Pretty Owl Poetry, Fall 2017
Homecoming – Glass: A Journal of Poetry, September 2017
x = Agency – Dream Pop Journal, Issue 1
Fisher of Women – Glass: A Journal of Poetry, July 2017
Made in China – The Humanist (July/August 2017 print magazine, and online)
Dream Man #5 – Rappahannock Review, Issue 4.1
Make America Literal Again and The Privacy Rights of Individuals – Columbia Journal
Porcupine Denies His Vulnerabilities – Whale Road Review, Issue 4
Rebirth in Room 406 – Stirring: A Literary Collection, Issue 17:4
Essays
The ERA’s New Era, The Humanist, February 21, 2020
The Fireband’s New Brand: David Silverman’s Return to Atheist Leadership, The Humanist, November 19, 2019
Snowstorms and Trigger Warnings, cahoodaloodaling, Issue 20
The Broet Problem: A Meditation on the Kelley/Quaint Controversy on The Sundress Blog
Interviews
Zachrilege Cast #206, November 21, 2019
Indiana University South Bend Alumni Interview, April 2018
Voices of Deconversion Podcast #032
Rappahannock Review on “Dream Man #5”
Fill in the Blanks with Krista Cox on Put Words Together, Make Meaning (Donna Vorreyer)
Awards & Nominations
2019
- Finalist for Philip Booth Poetry Prize judged by Mary Ruefle for poem “Dear Son, I’m Sorry for the Fathers I have Brought You.”
- Selected to Michiana Forty Under 40 for professional and community achievements
2018
- Pushcart Prize Nomination by The Indianapolis Review for “Hush, Child. Let the Forest do its Growing.“
- Best of the Net Nomination by The Hunger for “On the Occasion of a Bombing, I Just Can’t Bring Myself to Endorse Murder“
- Nomination for Bettering American Poetry anthology by Dream Pop Press for “x = Agency“
2017
- Pushcart Prize Nomination by Pirene’s Fountain for “A Woman has an Obligation to Keep her Legs Shaven”
- Best of the Net Nomination by Twyckenham Notes for “First Date as Fantasy of Self-Invention“
- Best New Poets Nomination by Whale Road Review for “Porcupine Denies His Vulnerabilities“
2016
- Best of the Net Nomination by cahoodaloodaling for “Snowstorms and Trigger Warnings“
- Indiana University South Bend English Department Excellence Award in Writing, awarded to one graduating English major each year
- Lester M. Wolfson Student Writing Award in Poetry for “On Learning the Jorogumo has a Boyfriend While I Do Not”
- 3rd place in Lester M. Wolfson Student Writing Awards in Poetry for “A Man Rapes a Girl and is Applauded”
2015
- Pushcart Prize Nomination by IDK Magazine for “Negotiating your Absence via Ghostbusters 1 & 2“
- Best of the Net Nomination by cahoodaloodaling for “Amelia Earhart Leaves her Husband“
- Lester M. Wolfson Student Writing Award in Poetry for “Love Song for Recovering Codependent”