Optional Saint

Bench Editions, March 2025
- Finalist for the 2023 Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, judged by Shane McCrae (under the title Antiphon)

Rare Earth

The Volta, Issue #49: "As We Speak, So to Speak” and “Heritage”
Burnside Review 2020: “Field, Book-name, Cinquefoil”
Bennington Review #6: “I Am at a Pain to Represent the Following Array”
The Literary Review: “Good for You,” “What Not”
Court Green 14: “Cow Sense,” “Make Believe”
The Journal 41.3: “A Long, Narrow Mark on a Surface”
Guesthouse: “All My Default Images” and “Off-Century” (with original pinhole camera photographs “The Dump,” “The Barn,” and “The Yard”)
The Iowa Review: “This is the Horse Poem I’ve Been Trying to Write”
Columbia Poetry Review: “Be Wilder”
The Bridge 39.1: “Danish Midsummer” (poems and personal essay in the journal of the Danish American Heritage Society)
Des Moines Register (poems in a feature on the Iowa Writers’ Workshop): “Rare Earth” “The Most Noticeable Distance”
New Delta Review: “My Lean-to”
Prelude: “Our Mythologies”
Matter Journal: “Beef Cut Diagram”
Newfound Journal: “The Most Beautiful Country”
Cimarron Review: “Falling, He Pointed to the Sky”

Finalist, the Burnside Review Press Book Award for Rare Earth
Finalist, the Tupelo Press 2019 Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize for Rare Earth
Finalist, the Black Lawrence Press 2018 Black River Chapbook Competition for Rare Earth
Semi-finalist, the 2018 University of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series Brittingham and Felix Pollax Prize for Poetry for Rare Earth
Semi-finalist, the 2018 Black Lawrence Press Hudson Prize for Rare Earth
Finalist, The Black Warrior Review 2017 Poetry Contest (Rachel McKibbens, judge)
Semi-finalist, 2017 Discovery/Boston Review Contest (Timothy Donnelly and francine j. harris, judges)
Finalist, Black Warrior Review 2016 Poetry Contest (Hoa Nguyen, judge)
Finalist, Sonora Review Poetry Contest (Mathias Svalina, judge)