I’m not great with regularly posting updates to my site. Consequently, I procrastinate getting all the good news down; the list grows, which then feels like a huge undertaking, and I arrive here: a massive update to celebrate the community I’ve been fortunate to be a part of these past few months. So, bear with me as I go through the essential thank you’s…

This Friday, I’ll be giving a fifteen-minute poetry reading at the Tecumseh location of Indigo. Joining me are several local poets sharing work, including Emily Roe, Vanessa Shields, and many more. This free evening of spoken word will begin at 5:30 p.m. and wrap up by 7 p.m. Please come out and support this community of writers! My chapbook, Mayflies, will also be available for sale.

I have several new pieces that have been published in journals and an anthology…

Geeked to share that Last Resort Literary Review has taken a poem of mine that I’ve been trying to publish for a couple years now, a piece called “Plan B.”

The poem, in essence, captures the saying “life happens when you’re busy making other plans.”

In mid- to late-October, Atticus Review will be publishing a sixth poem from my graduate MFA thesis titled “Spotlights & Shadows.”

The piece is a longer narrative that relays an unnerving and haunting event that happened in my high school when I was a junior there...

I’m honored to share that a third poem from my thesis has been given an honorable mention in the Poetry Society of Michigan’s (PSM) annual contest. The piece, “New Buffalo,” was submitted for the Founder’s Prize, a category for poems about Michigan, and it will be published alongside the other contest winners in a fall edition of Peninsula Poets…

I just received word that another poem from my thesis has been named a finalist in Coastal Shelf’s inaugural FuPo Poetry Contest. The contest was designed for poems that are both funny and poignant (hence FuPo), and my work “Now That We Use TV-Tray Tables…

I’ve recently received word that another poem from my MFA thesis has been accepted for publication by Into the Void Magazine. “Portrait of My Sister after Drinking Transmission Fluid” will appear…

I’m elated that a recent poem from my thesis titled “Pandemic Haircuts” was awarded publication as part of the AWP Intro Journals Project. Reed Magazine, San José State University’s literary journal and California’s oldest lit mag, has selected the poem for an upcoming issue. The piece is about love, loss, and preservation in the time of coronavirus…

I’m thrilled to share that one of the poems from my MFA thesis has recently been accepted for publication by The Windsor Review. “Blue July” will appear…