2025 Best New Poets Anthology, “Repair,” forthcoming

“God’s Country,” “I carried you,” and “Visitor,” Bryant Literary Review, forthcoming

“Roadkill,” “Tuscaloosa, Alabama,” and “Buzz,” The Boiler, forthcoming

2025 Pushcart Prize Winner

  • Pushcart Prize XLVIV  Anthology, for Acie,” 2025

“Slapstick,” Indiana Review, forthcoming

Second Naïveté,” Hunger Mountain, July 2025

Amazing Grace,” Hunger Mountain, July 2025

House in Alabama,” North American Review‘s Open Space, June 2025

Baby Talk,” Frontier Poetry, December 2024

  • Finalist for the Frontier OPEN Prize

Repair,” The Adroit Journal, August 2024

The Cardinal,” The Adroit Journal, August 2024

2024 Djanikian Scholars Finalist, The Adroit Journal

Breach,” Pleiades, March 2024

Repentance,” Asheville Poetry Review, February 2024

  • Winner of the 2023 William Matthews Poetry Prize, selected by Diane Seuss

for Acie,” The Iowa Review, February 2024

  • Finalist for The Iowa Review’s 2023 contest 

Brim,” swamp pink, February 2024

Breadth,” swamp pink, February 2024

Televangelist,” swamp pink, February 2024

Brake,” swamp pink, February 2024

“Repair” and other poems 

  • Finalist for The Missouri Review’s 2023 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Poetry Prize 

My Mother Asks Me to Write My Grandma’s Obituary,” Quarterly West, March 2023

  • Finalist for Quarterly West’s 2023 Poetry Prize

Self-Portrait in Window-Light,” The Ekphrastic Review, March 2022

“My Mother Asks Me to Write My Grandma’s Obituary” 

  • 2022 Academy of American Poets College Competition Honorable Mention

Tennessee Home Video”

  • Finalist for Yalobusha Review’s 2022 Yellowwood Poetry Prize