POEMS IN PRINT
Denver Quarterly: Into the ruins
Court Green: America Takes A Seat
Marlboro Review: Revelation
The Avalon Literary Review: April Heat Wave
Heartlands: Art
Indefinite Space: keeping the window open and We are the crazies
VIMFIRE Magazine: Aaron/Erin and Folly
West Trade Review: The Table and Ghost Baby
San Pedro River Review: Memory
Poems For All: The Heart Factory
Five 2 One Magazine: An Ordinary Girl Meets a Man Living in a Tree
Prick of the Spindle: How People Fall Off the Earth
WomenArts Quarterly Journal: Meditation While Peeling Oranges
Dying Dahlia Review: Banshee Woman
Boulevard: Dirty Words
POEMS ONLINE
BlazeVOX: Within, Thirst, and Always the Ocean
Pulse Literary Journal: C-H-A-R-L-E-S
Combatives (with Erin M. Bertram) Vol.1, #3
Blue Lake Review: The Garden Memory
Ishaan Literary Review: Battlefield, Tide and Leda’s Repression
Poetry Super Highway: You Can’t Call The Dead and Triglycerides
The Lake: Distorted Memory and The Week After Your Death
Burningword Literary Journal: To the Panhandlers of Northern Virginia
Red Savina Review: No Oasis for Victims, Monsters, and Bipolar for Couples
Thirteen Myna Birds: The Moment and XX
Silver Birch Press, Me as a Child Series: The Red Slide
Tinderbox Poetry Journal: Code 296.40 and Better For Storms
The Bleeding Lion: Cooking In The Night
Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal: Abortion Lament
Yellow Chair Review: You Can’t Paint the Moon
Hermeneutic Chaos: Strange Domesticity
Moss Trill: womb walker, Holes, and Women
Thank You For Swallowing: [ ] Culture
Melancholy Hyperbole: Egyptian Sorrow and Marriage on a Bad Day
The Riveter Review: To My Rapist
If and Only If: Documentation (forthcoming)
The Fem: A Party Girl Meets the Elephant
Flapperhouse: A Fan Girl Meets David Bowie
Drunk Monkeys: He Kills Butterflies
Fourth & Sycamore: PTSD and Visitation
Narrative Northeast: A Hurricane We Rarely See
Sheila Na Gig: We Were Birds and The Warmest Christmas
Wherewithal: Underwater Reversal
The Basil O’Flaherty: A 25 Year Old Girl Meets a Cat-Calling Man
Window Cat Press: A Girl Raids Her Wardrobe and A Lonely Wife Discovers A Trashy Girl
Killjoy: What Didn’t Make It Back Into the Woods
Rag Queen Periodical: Wendy Cuts a Melon, Wendy Risks Becoming An End Table, Don’t Let the Patriarchy Get You Down, Wet, The One Where I Change the End
Silver Birch Press, Me, at 17 Series: Strange Relationship
Riot Felice: When Larry Couldn’t Climb the Tree
District Lit, disability special: The One Where He Tells Me He’s Retiring
Construction Lit Mag: The Years Stack Against Us
Cheat River Review: April’s Burial
Crab Fat Magazine: Bear Violence
Rabid Oak: Disco Nap Dream, Embers In My Mind Steal All Away, and The Dissection
Bad Pony: I Feel Stupid and Contagious
Ovenbird Poetry: Trying To Find a Marriage Counselor
The Poeming Pigeon: Who Is Safe When The Gun Goes Off
Blanket Sea Magazine: Doctor Dream, 1720
Pithead Chapel: Temporary in a Dark Purple Subaru
Gone Lawn: Becoming, Hearing Pearl Jam’s Ten for the 115th Time, Zen Happens
Sorority Mansion: Knees at Large
Bold + Italic: Tibetan Prayer Flags
GASHER Journal: Traffic Girl Starts To Suspect
Birds Piled Loosely: Elliott Smith Stops for Cigarettes Along the Beach
Bone & Ink Press: Traffic Girl Laments
Rockvale Review: Eulogy in the Dark
Voices of Eve: Soft Voices and Memory Watches (forthcoming)
Arcturus: The One Where Wifey Understands
Pink Plastic House: Plastic Soul Done Right (forthcoming)
The Fabulist: They Speak (forthcoming)
Call Me [Brackets]: Pounding the Hammer Against What May Live and West Point (forthcoming)
HOOT: Through Thin Walls (forthcoming)
Biscuit Road Drive: When Place is What You Once Held Loose and American Mother
Ghost Bible: Church Bones and Haunting Me
South Broadway Ghost Society: The Hands That Caught Me
Across the Social Distances: Outbreak or Breakout
Can we have our ball back? (with Jennifer MacBain-Stephens): Here’s a Lesson for Little Girls
Arlington Public Library Quaranzine, Issue #3: Mask or No Mask
Blood Tree Literature: Ode to Hole’s Live Through This (forthcoming)
CHAPBOOKS
Here, Hunger (with Erin M. Bertram) (NeoPepper Press, 2007)
What Becomes Within (ELJ Publications, 2014)
The Heart Factory (Black Cat Moon Press, 2016)
GIRL (Dancing Girl Press, 2017)
Thirsty Bones (Blood Pudding Press, 2017)
Traffic Girl Micro-Chapbook (Ghost City Press, 2020) (forthcoming)
ANTHOLOGIES
Crack the Spine Winter 2014 Anthology
Wood Becomes Bone Collection: A Mental Health Awareness Series
Lucid Moose, Like A Girl: Perspectives on Feminine Identity: War for Dinner
Hysteria Anthology: womb walker (forthcoming)
Paper Swans Press, The Chronicles of Eve: Superstition
Unrequited: An Anthology of Love Poems about Inanimate Objects: Ode to Cigarettes and The Patio
White Stag, Neogoddesses: Home Lament, Things I Don’t Tell My Shrink, and Down By The Water
Dead Cat Anthology: Sapphire, April Gone
Come As You Are (ELJ Publications, 90s anthology): Thelma & Louise & Me
Written in Arlington anthology: Ode to Fairlington and My Son Tells Me About Lockdown Drills at Abingdon Elementary
REVIEWS
MadHat Drive-By Book Reviews: Lynn Strongin’s The Burn Poems
The Jewish Chronicle: Judith Robinson reviews my poem, Old Gold
Gazing Grain Press: Sarah Marcus-Donelly reviews my chapbook, GIRL
Agape Editions: Jennifer Mac-Bain Stephens reviews my chapbook, GIRL
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
First Place in the Bettendorf Public Library’s Mysteries of the Ordinary Poetry Prize judged by Robert Pinsky (2000)
Finalist in the 2006 Arlington Reads Poetry Contest: At the Holiday Inn
Two poems nominated for Best of the Net 2015 by Red Savina Review
Tied with others for 5th place in Poetry Super Highway’s 2015 contest: At the Holiday Inn
Finalist in Dirty Chai’s 2016 Chapbook Contest
Nominated for 2016 Pushcart Prize by Black Cat Moon Press
Tied with others for 6th place in Poetry Super Highway’s 2016 contest: Old Gold
Finalist in Eggtooth Edition’s 2017 Poetry Chapbook Contest
Honorable mention in Arlington, VA’s 2017 Moving Words Contest
Semi-finalist in Black Lawrence Press’s 2017 St. Lawrence Book Award
Wigleaf Long List for “Becoming” in Gone Lawn, Summer 2018
Best of the Net nomination by Rockvale Review for “Eulogy in the Dark,” Fall 2018
OTHER
I once had a poem on the Blue Cat menu in Rock Island, IL
Rogue Agent: I Feel Empowered When I Wear
Lament for the Dead Project: Jonathan Sanders
Tupelo Press 30/30 February 2020 Participant
READINGS
Under The Sign Of The Bear Reading Series, September 26, 2015 with Lesley Mcilroy, Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, and Sarah Winn in Pittsburgh, PA
Unrequited Love Book Release, June 17, 2016 at Upshur Books in Washington, DC
EDITOR READING JOBS
So To Speak–Reader during 2006 for one semester of GMU MFA program
ELJ Publications–Assistant editor during some of 2014, all of 2015