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CONTEST WINNERS & FINALISTS
- After I think I’m done, 2025 Bicoastal Review Contest, Finalist; also made into a poetry reed diffuser, pictured on the right.
- After Divorce, Sunspot Lit, 2025 Geminga Contest Winner
- Jute, Iron Horse Literary Review, 2024 PhotoFinish Contest Winner
- When Winter Storm “Ember” Blows into Town on the Eve of My Third Marriage, Off Topic Publishing, Contest Winner, Best of Net Nominee
- Firing, Shortlisted, The Letter Review Poetry Prize 2024
- Dis/satisfaction of Birds, Best of Net Nominee and Editor’s Choice, Quartet Journal Winter 2023
- And Above Me, Laughter, Finalist, Breakwater Review, The Peseroff Prize Poetry Contest 2023
- Landscape with Mallards and Mirror, Pushcart Prize Nominee 2023, Border Crossing
- Landscape with Silt and Self, Semifinalist, Crab Creek Review Annual Poetry Prize 2022
- Yet No Less Happy, Finalist, Sweet: A Literary Confection Contest 2022
- Self-Portrait as Flame, Honorable Mention, The Common Ground Review Poetry Contest 2021
- “The Consolatory Pleasures of Jigsaws When the World Is in Bits,” Semi-Finalist, Nimrod Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry 2021
- Daydreaming, Winner, The Ekphrastic Review Cat Contest 2022
- The Myth of Keeping Busy After Loss, Finalist, The Ekphrastic Review Bird Watching Contest 2021
- This Coming Home to the Absences, longlisted, 2021 Frontier Open Prize
POEMS
- Burying, Psaltery & Lyre, forthcoming
- There Is Nothing New Until There Is, The MacGuffin, forthcoming
- My Neighbor, This Heatwave, We Argue, He Waters the Grass, SWWIM
- Entire Lives, Cottonmouth Journal
- At Nolde Forest after Leaving Church, Pine Row Press
- Disinherited: A Lament, Poets Reading the News
- Falling, Not Like Petals or Snow, Variant Lit
- Wonderwork, Lessons on Nothing, Achilles Heel, Wanhope, Cutleaf Journal
- Hypothesis-Or Why Steal Dorothy’s $3.5 Million Ruby Slippers Instead of Stars, Okay Donkey
- Sunrise Pond after Sunset, Ballast Journal plus a conversation about the poem by Sarah Etlinger
- I’d like to believe it means something, Allegro Poetry Magazine
- not / holding, Self-Portrait as Seed, Plow, Prophecy, Anti-Heroin Chic
- Self-Portrait at 15 as an Ecstatic, Sheila-Na-Gig
- When I Resign from My Faith Community My Therapist Gives Me a Quartz Healing Bowl and Tells Me It’s Tuned to the Heart Chakra, Gyroscope
- Desk//work, Empty Sky, and Your Body Knows You’re Burned Out, The Shore
- Antares in Winter Sky, Witness
- Landscape with Moth and Kierkegaard, River Heron Review
- Landscape with Russian Olive Trees and Ashram: SWWIM
- Self-Portrait as Forgetting, Orange Blossom Review
- Self-Portrait as Container: Harbor Review
- Halving a Peach After Our Argument: Bindweed Magazine
- It Isn’t About the Flowers: Dodging the Rain
- My Body’s Blue Marsh: Sky Island Journal
- Silence Braiding: Poets Reading the News (online)
- Imago Dei: COUNTERCLOCK
- Reminded of Bigfoot: Sweet Tree Review
- The Arc Horses Make: Touch: A Journal of Healing
- Scent of Brown Sugar and Fig and One Sock, Never Two: Broad! (a gentleperson’s magazine)
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