selected
publications
forthcoming
two poems // diode poetry journal
two poems // Cincinnati Review
2024
“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
two poems // Corporeal Lit
2022
“we are more than mere endurance” // Poetry Daily
two poems // Prolit 7
two poems // Crazyhorse 101
three poems // three fold 7
“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 // 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
