Writing Experience:
2016-Current
Education:
New York University, M.F.A in Poetry, 2020, post MFA study in Non-Fiction
Stanford University, B.A. in English Literature, 1980
Books:
· Tic Tic Tic (forthcoming September 2025 from Cornerstone Press)
· Marilyn: Essays & Poems, Collector’s Edition of An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe ([PANK] Books, 2022)
· An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe ([PANK] Books, 2021) full-length collection
[PANK] Book Award for Poetry
· Give a Girl Chaos {see what she can do} (C&R Press, 2019) full-length collection
Wheelbarrow Prize, Eric Hoffler Award Finalist, Cod Hill Prize semi-finalist
· Bite Marks (Comstock Press, 2021) chapbook, Comstock 2020 Chapbook Prize
· Once a Diva (dancing girl press, 2021) chapbook
· Finding My Way Home (Finishing Line Press, 2018), chapbook
· Body Politic (Mount Analogue Press, 2017), chapbook/political pamphlet
For Consideration:
· Artifacts: full-length collection (finalist, diode Editions Prize, Possession Sound Series Prize and Hillary Gravendyk Prize, Jacar Poetry Prize, River River Poetry Series; semi-finalist, Vassar Millar Prize in Poetry, and Wheeler Prize in Poetry)
· Brush Fire chapbook (finalist, Bull City Press, Glass Chapbook Series, Iron Horse Review Chapbook Prize, Jacar Press Chapbook Prize, Bateau Press Boom Chapbook Prize, Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Prize, semi-finalist: Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize, Bunny/Fonograf Press, Adrift Chapbook Prize)
Awards/Honors:
· New Letters Editor’s Prize, finalist 2024
· Bull City Press finalist, 2023, 2024
· Glass Chapbook Series finalist, 2024
· diode Editions Prize finalist, 2024
· Jacar Poetry Prize finalist, 2024
· Possession Sound Series Book Prize finalist, 2024
· The Hillary Gravendyk Book Prize finalist, 2024
· Wheeler Book Prize in Poetry finalist, 2024
· Jacar Press Chapbook Prize finalist, 2024
· Frontier Poetry Ekphrastic Prize finalist, 2024
· Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry semi-finalist, 2023
· Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Prize finalist, 2023
· Bateau Press Boom Chapbook Prize finalist, 2023
· Iron Horse Review Chapbook Prize finalist, 2023
· Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize semi-finalist, 2023
· The Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors Prize winner, 2022
· Red Wheelbarrow finalist, 2022
· Pushcart Prize nominee, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
· Best of Net nominee, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024
· Best Spiritual Literature nominee, 2022, 2023
· Iron Horse Review contest finalist, 2021
· Frontier Open finalist, 2021
· [PANK] Book Award for Poetry winner, 2020
· Comstock Chapbook Prize winner, 2020
· White Pine Press Prize runner up, 2020
· SWWIM poetry prize finalist, 2020
· Eric Hoffer Award, finalist, 2020
· The Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors Prize, finalist, 2020
· Best New Poets nominee, 2018
· Atlanta Review International Poetry Prize finalist, 2019
· Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize winner, 2018
· International Literary Awards Rita Dove Award in Poetry finalist, 2018
· Mississippi Review Prize for Poetry finalist, 2018
· Wheelbarrow Books Prize for Poetry winner finalist, 2018
· New Millennium Award for Poetry finalist, 2018
· Knightville Poetry Prize finalist, 2018
· Frontier New Voices Fellowship finalist, 2018
· Patricia Dobler Poetry Award finalist, 2017
· Lauren K. Alleyne Difficult Fruit Poetry Prize finalist, 2017
· Cultural Center of Cape Cod National Poetry Competition finalist, 2016
· Red Wheelbarrow Prize semi-finalist, 2019
· Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry semi-finalist, 2017
· Knightville Poetry Prize semi-finalist, 2017
· Codhill Press Poetry Award (book) semi-finalist, 2017
· Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award semi-finalist, 2018
· C&R Press Summer Tidepool Chapbook Award, semi-finalist, 2018
· Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition, semi-finalist, 2018
· Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award for Poetry semi-finalist, 2017, 2020
· Earl Weaver Baseball Prize, Cobalt Review, semi-finalist, 2019
· Parks & Points National Poetry Competition, 2018
Journals and Magazines:
3Elements Review: “Stung” 2016 “Mother Mary Comes to Me” 2022
Agni: “Balancing Act” 2024
Angry Old Man Magazine: “Egyptian Erasure” “After/Math” “Antarctica” “Eclipse Erasure” 2018
American Journal of Poetry: “Mani Pedi Sestina” 2017 “L/Anguish” “Crash” 2019 “All I Ever Wanted” “Following the Script” 2020
American Poetry Journal: “Snapping a Selfie” 2020
Atlanta Review: “What White Lies Beneath” Atlanta Review International Poetry Prize Finalist 2019
Barren: “In Marilyn’s Shadow” 2020
Blackbird: “Los Angeles in Conversation with David Hockney” “At the Prado”
Bear Review :“After Viewing Helen Frankenthaler’s ‘Flirt’” “Love,” 2023
Bloodtree Literature: “That Fall in 1996 When You Dined with Divas” 2018
Bracken: “Get Out” 2019 “In the Diseased Light” “Then I Slept” 2020 “Fish Story” 2024
Beloit Poetry Journal: “Divine Marilyn in Paris” selection 2021
Caesura: “The Square House—94 Shaker Road, Harvard, Massachusetts” 2017
Carbon Culture Review: “#TED2016”, nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2017; “While Liam Neeson Slept” “Every Woman Must Have” “The Famous Poet is Late” “When I Call Out His Name” 2019
Construction: “Beyond” “Crossing the Dead Sea” 2018
Claudius Speaks: “How to Run Away” 2017
Copper Nickel: “In the Mirror” 2021
Crab Creek Review: “In Menopause I Lose My Sense of Direction”, “The Perishable Nature of the French Breakfast Radish” 2020 “I Road Trip to Palm Springs to See My Ex” 2024
The Daily Drunk: “Late Night TV” 2021
december: “Dia de los Muertos”, “I’m in Conversation with the Sea” 2019 “Aubade Before a Blue Moon” “Weaving a Narrative” “Two Years After the Getty Fire in LA, Twenty Years After We Moved” 2022
diode Poetry Journal: “<data>”, “Upon seeing an elephant seal on the Sound in front of my house in West Seattle” 2021
Driftwood Review: “What I Know of Strangulation” 2021
Drunk Monkeys: “The Life I Never Lived” 2019, “When the Stars Align” 2020
EcoTheo Review: “Barometer of Want” 2022 Orison Spiritual Lit nomination
Ekphrastic Review: “Nightview, New York, 1932” “Impressions of WH Auden” “A Photograph of Two Girls in the Country” 2016
Feral: “An Ekphrastic of Before & After Cervical Spine Disc Replacement Surgery X-Rays” 2020
Financial Times of London “Then I Slept” 2021
Fjords: “After the Honeymoon” “How to Throw a Communist Party” “Refusing to Bow” “Take That Bow Then Slag Off” “There Was No Honeymoon”
The Flexible Persona: “Dissident” 2018
Flypaper: “At the End of Our Marriage, You contract Congestive Heart Failure” 2018 “Under the Bed” 2020
Freshwater Magazine: “Ode to the Athlete” “Shore Leave” 2017
Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review: “How to Hold a Heart” “Separation” “In Memoriam” 2016
Frontier: “my sister/mi hermana” 2019 “Zuihitsu Catalogue of Hungers and Hopes” 2021 Frontier Open finalist
Glass: A Poetry Journal: “Letter to My Children Regarding Their Childhood Home While the Getty Fire Rages” 2019
Gold Man Review: “Thanksgiving 2015” 2016
Gone Lawn: “Beyond”, “Weather” “Hypothermia Survival Guide” “What We Hold on To” “When We Write About the Weather” 2018
Gravel Magazine: “Submission Guidelines” nominated for a Best of Net 2017, Pushcart Prize Nomination 2018
Greensboro Review, “Earthbound” 2020
The Harpoon Review: “Stilled Life” 2018
The Heartland Review: “What I Knew” 2018 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize winner
The Ilanot Review: “noon+midnight” 2022
Image Journal: “Unending” 2024
Into the Void: “Small Deaths” 2016
Iron Horse Review, “Zuihitsu of Georgia O’Keeffe in Dialogue with Mark Rothko’s Number 10”, finalist, 2021
Ithaca Lit: “After the Battles” finalist for the Lauren K. Alleyne Difficult Fruit Poetry Prize 2017, Pushcart Prize nomination, 2020
L’Éphémère Review: “How the Light Gets In” 2018
Lines + Stars: “A Small Act” 2018
The Marrow: “Split Second” 2024
The Matador Review: “Afterward” 2018, Best of Net Nomination 2019
Mississippi Review: “Tuesday” finalist for Mississippi Review Poetry Prize 2018 “On the Anniversary of Dad’s Death” 2024
The Missouri Review: “What It’s Like to Fall in Love”, “Elegies for the Living and the Dead” 2019 “newborn” 2022 “Bastille Day in Paris, 2022” “Blue Notes” “Even After All These Years” “House Hunting” “Perhaps This is a Prayer” 2023
MORIA: “tea leaves” 2017, nominated for Best New Poets, Best of Net 2018; “Before and After” “Freshman Year” “How it Ends” “I Knew I Had Travelled Far Enough” “Immolation” “Waiting in Arrivals” 2019 “Fractions” “Selfie with Marilyn” 2020 “Forced Fruit” “Time & Space” 2022
Mother Egg Review: “Searching for Signs of Life, a Zuihitsu” “The Weather Letters” 2022 “Geographies” 2023
Museum of Americana: “In Search of Color” Best of Net nomination “Truth & Lies” “Zuihitsu Count Down”
Museum of Northwest Arts: “Saint Lulu of the Vagina” 2018
The New Guard: “Weather” semi-finalist for Knightville Poetry Prize 2017, “This America’s Life” finalist for Knightville Poetry Prize 2018
New Letters: “The Obit” finalist for the Editor’s Prize, 2025
Nimrod International Journal of Poetry and Prose: “Family Secrets” semi-finalist for Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize 2017, “On the Occasion of an Outfielder’s Wedding”, 2020
Northwest Review “Buried Memory:” 2023
Oberon Poetry Magazine: “Keepsakes” 2017
On the Seawall: “Ars Poetica” “Selfie After a Bad Week” 2020 “In Search of Eden at the New York Botanical Garden” “Objective Correlative” 2023
One: “Lookout” 2024, Best of Net Nomination, 2024
ONE ART: “On Turning Sixty” “Pleaides” “Spatial Continuum”2021 “Yellowing” “Seduction” “Like Wolves” “When Seeking Forgiveness” “The Spider Has Her Say” 2022 “Years Ago in Morocco” 2023 “I’ve Been Thinking About Love” “On the September Day I Help Move My Mother into Senior Living” 2024
The Opiate: “A Clean Kitchen” 2019
The Oxonian Review: “Living Color” 2024
Pacifica Review: “Sorry to Bug You, I’ve Got Something to Say” 2021
[PANK] Magazine: “After the Miscarriage” “Letter to Art” “In a Hole/In that Hole” 2022
Parentheses Journal: “Reading Ulysses” 2021
Paris Lit Up: “It Now Being Wednesday” 2020
Parks & Points: “The Poetry Workshop” 2018 Poetry Competition
Pedestal Magazine: “Burning the Evidence of Our Existence” 2020 “C is for Cruelty” 2023
Penn Review: “Cleave” 2018 “At Twenty” 2022
Pinch: “Fishing” 2024
Plant Human Quarterly: “Dendrochronology” 2022
Plath Profiles: “Dear Sylvia” “When I Lose My Mind” 2020
Pleiades: “At Thirty” 2022
Plume: “Pentimento” 2023
Poetry Northwest: “Most Evenings” 2023
Poets Reading the News: “An Anonymous Act” “Open Season” 2018 “What’s Lost in the Time Zone” “An Extension Cord” “To Be a Survivor” 2019 “RESOLUTION”, “Fraying at the Seams” “In Quarantine, it’s Either a Game of Chance or a Singles Dance” 2020 “Work it Like a Woman” “Hey” 2021 “Forty-Two Days until the Election” 2024
Pontoon Poetry: “Stop Motion” 2019
Psaltry & Lyre: “If Only” 2022 “When We Lived Like International Spies” 2023
Radar Poetry: “The Suburb” 2022
Raven Chronicles: “Single Handed” 2017
Red Wheelbarrow: “Forced Fruit” 2022
Rockvale Review: “Instagram” 2018
Rust + Moth: “Once I drove off the cliff” 2021
San Pedro River Review: “We thought we’d gone on holiday to fix our marriage” 2021
Santa Clara Review: “She opened like a wound” 2018
Seattle Poetic Grid: “Grace” 2017
Seattle Poetry on Buses: “Off Alki” excerpt from “But How Could We Forget?” 2017-18
The Shore: “After Life, the Carnival Begins” “For my first marriage” 2021
Sliprock Review: “Dendrochronology” “Our Neighbors Requested a Tree Removal” 2021 “Of King Tides” 2023
Songs of Eretz Poetry Review: “Âme en Peine á Paris” “With the Maasai” 2018
Sundress Publications, The Wardrobe: “Give a Girl Chaos” 2019
SWWIM Poem of the Day: “I Call You Uterus” 2019, Pushcart Nomination, Best of Net Nomination 2020 “O Breasts” “Lost Angeles” finalists SWWIM contests 2021 “Tezzelenghe” 2022
Tar River: “Housework” 2019
Terrain: “Continuum” 2024
Timberline Review: “A Drift of Fishermen” 2018
Tinderbox Poetry Journal: “Silicon Valley Sonnets” 2021
Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal: “Wandering Seeds” 2018
Verse Daily: “Balancing Act” 2024
Vine Leaves Journal: “When We Fight” 2016
The Voices Project: “Break this Sentence Down: She is Caught in a Loveless Marriage” “The Walk” 2016
Washington Post Book Club “All I Ever Wanted” 2021
West Trade Review: “Finding My Way Home” “Hypothermia Survival Guide” 2017
Windfall, A Journal of Poetry and Place: “But How Could We Forget?” 2016
Yemasee Journal: “ESC.OPTION.DELETE” “In Praise of Pink” 2018 “Crested Bone” 2020
Multi-Media:
Visible Poetry Project: “Selfie with Marilyn” film produced and directed by Sarah Tremlett, starring Hattie Rees 2020, selected for the Zebra Film Festival, Berlin and FOTOGENIA, Mexico City
The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith, American Public Media, “What it’s Like to Fall in Love” 2020
The Slowdown with Major Jackson, American Public Media, “Visible Light” 2024
The Write Question, Montana Public Radio, “Then I Slept” 2020
Essays:
Best American Poetry: “Marilyn Monroe, Poet” “Marilyn Monroe’s Love of Poetry” “Poets Love Marilyn Monroe” “At the Ritz: Plath, Sexton & Monroe” “Selfie with Marilyn Monroe: Writing in Persona” 2021 “Pacific Northwest Poets: Plentiful & Powerful” “The Poetry of Bonnie & Clyde” A” Delicious Deciduous Debut” “A Modern Take on “Marriage”” “Over the Moon and Back Again” 2019
Brevity: “Writing in Persona, Language, Lipstick and a Mirror” May 2021
Financial Times of London, “Writing a Second Act” May 2021
Hobart: “Eventually Everyone Leaves LA” July 2021
The Hunger: “The Illusion of Sleep” a lyric essay, June 2021
LitHub: “How I Kicked Insomnia & Addiction with the Help of Marilyn Monroe” June 2021
On the Seawall: “Art of Revision/Act of War” March 2022
Authored Reviews/Interviews:
Interview with Catherin Barnett on Solutions to the Problem of Bodies in Space, The Adroit Journal September 2024
“Fall 2024 Book Recommendations” The Adroit Journal, September 2024
Lyric comparative review of four collections: “Poets Painting with the Agnes Martin Brush”, The Adroit Journal, April 2024
Review of “Blonde” film, LitHub, October 2022
Interview with Lynn Melnick on I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton, The Adroit Journal, August 2022
Interview with Jill Bialosky on Asylum, The Adroit Journal, December 2021
Lyric Review, Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies, The Adroit Journal, October 2021
Editor’s Letter, The Adroit Journal, Issue 38, August 2021
Review, Veronica Golos Girl, On the Seawall, May 2021
Editor’s Letter, The Adroit Journal, Issue 37, April 2021
Interview with Jenny Molberg on domestic violence, The Adroit Journal, October 2020
Interview with John Murillo on poetry and race, The Adroit Journal, June 2020
Micro review of Jen Levitt’s The Off-Season, New Pages, June 2020
Interview with Matthew Rohrer + Review of The Sky Contains the Plans, The Adroit Journal, Issue 32, 2020
Interview with Victoria Chang + Review of Obit, The Adroit Journal Issue 31, 2020
Editor’s Letter, The Adroit Journal Issue 29, 2019, Issue 30 2019
Review of Take Me with You, Wherever You are Going by Jessica Jacobs, The Adroit Journal, 2019
Guest Editor, Best American Poetry Blog, 2019
Interview with Deborah Landau, The Adroit Journal, 2019
Review of Barbie Chang by Victoria Chang, The Adroit Journal, 2018
Editor's Letter, The Adroit Journal Issue 26, 2018
Interview with Lauren Camp for The Adroit Journal, 2018
Review of Turquoise Door by Lauren Camp, Entropy, 2018
Interview with Catherine Barnett, The Adroit Journal, 2018
Anthologies:
· “Even After All These Years” Best Spiritual Literature, 2024 Orison Books.
· “F is for Fear” Unsinkable: Poetry Inspired by the Titanic, 2024 Salmon Poetry Press (Edited by Sandy Yannone, Susana Case, Margot Taft Stever).
· “Good Morning” Serotonin, anthology 2024 Serotonin Press (Edited by Sean W. Lynch).
· “Split Second” This Machine is Made for Earth, 2024 The Madrona Project (Edited by Michael Daley), published by Empty Bowl Press.
· “In Praise of Small Creatures on the Fourth Largest Island in America” “Ode to Whidbey Island” Writing the Land: Foodways and Social Justice (Edited by Lis McLoughlin, Nature Culture, 2022).
· “In Praise of Pink” Family (Edited by Robin Barratt, THE POET, 2022).
· “noon+midnight” Footprints, An Anthology of New Ecopoetry (Edited by Arron Kent and Charlie Baylis, Broken Sleep Books, 2022).
· “An Ekphrastic of Before & After Cervical Spine Disc Replacement Surgery X-Rays” “In Menopause I Lost My Sense of Direction” From the Waist Down: the body in healthcare (Edited by Lynne Ellis, Papeachu Press, 2022.)
· "Four Days at Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, 1961.” I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU: Poems on Marilyn Monroe (edited by Susana H. Case & Margo Taft Stever, Milk and Cake Press, 2022).
· “Housework” Moonstone Anthology of Featured Poets, (edited by Larry Robing, Moonstone Press, 2022).
· “Drafting a Flight Plan” and “Weather” Once and For Always (edited by Judith Skillman, Exposition Books, 2021).
· “How to Hold a Heart” The Inspired Poet (edited by Susan Landgraf, Two Sylvias Press, 2019)
· “A Writer’s Winter” Coffee Poems (edited by Lorraine Healy, World Enough Writers, 2018)
· “How to Run Away” “Submission Guidelines” and “Earthquake” Absoloose Vol.2 Anthology (Loose Moose Publishing, 2018)
· “The Ferry Line” Ice Cream Poems (edited by Patricia Fargnoli, World Enough Writers, 2017)
· “What We Hold on To” Washington 129 Anthology (edited by Washington Poet Laureate Tod Marshall, Sage Hill Press, 2017)
· “November 2016” Who Want the World Like It Is” (Birds Piled Loosely Press, 2017)
· “Travel Advisory for Turkey” Flying South Anthology (edited by Steve Lindahl, Winston-Salem Writers 2016)
Fellowships, Conferences & Residencies:
· Bread Loaf Writers Conference, 2023
· Community of Writers, 2022
· Fellowship, SWWIM Residency, 2021
Fellowship, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, 2021
Other:
Executive Editor, The Adroit Journal, 2020-current
Instructor, Hugo House, 2022-current
Host, Adroit Reading Series 2020-current
Editorial Director, The Adroit Journal, 2019-2020
Board Advisor, Tupelo Press, 2019-2021
Poetry Editor, The Adroit Journal, 2018-2019
Poetry Reader, The Adroit Journal, 2017-2018
Poetry Reader, Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, 2018
Featured Poet Readings:
SpokenWord, Paris 1/19
AWP, 3/19, 3/20, 3/22, 3/23
First Poetry Series, Los Angeles 4/19
Hugo House, Seattle 5/19
NYU Books Series, NYC 6/19
Paris LitUp, Paris 7/19, 7/22
Elliott Bay Books, 8/19, 6/21, 2/22, 3/23
Open Books, 2/20
Strand Books, 6/21
Logos Collective with Diane Seuss, 6/21
Skylight Books, 6/21
Island Books, 6/18, 9/19, 3/22
NY Poetry Festival, 7/21
Hudson Valley Creative Writing Center, 8/21
KGB Monday Night Poetry, 9/21
Chevalier’s Books, 11/21
White Whale Books, 2/22
Diesel Books, 8/22
Verbatim Books, 6/24
Third Place books, 8/24
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