Awards & Recognition

3rd Place in Quiz & Quill Poetry Prize Contest (May 2008, Otterbein University)

1st place in Quiz & Quill Playwriting Award Contest (June 2010, Otterbein University)

3rd & 4th Annual Derick Burleson Poetry Contests (2022-2023, 2023-2024)

E. L. Bartlett Contest for Literary Criticism (2022-2023)

Farthest North Fiction Contest Short Story or Single Chapter (2022-2023)

Recipient of the George W. McDaniel Writing Fund Scholarship (2022-2023)

Recipient of the Frank Soos Creative Writing Scholarship (2023-2024)

Nominated for the AWP Intro Journals Award Project (2023, 2024, 2025)

Honorable Mention in Action, Spectacle’s Open Reading Period
(2024)

Participant in the DISQUIET International Literary Program
(2025)

A Light Rain Quiz & Quill Chapbook, Otterbein University

“Time-Machinin’”
Carolina Muse Literary & Arts Magazine

“recipe for a brown sugar salad, prepared as a tribute” WayWords Literary Journal

“Kyrie” Apricity Magazine, Dream Noir Magazine

“water cooler talk no. 12”
Dream Noir Magazine

“lack(tone)”
Superstition Review

“You, the bodies who come to surround me,”
Superstition Review

“Pirouette” Midway Journal

“dailiness” Carolina Muse Literary & Arts Magazine

“gnash”
The Bicoastal Review

“Boy in the bookstore lingering over Brokeback Mountain”
Either/Or Magazine (forthcoming)