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EDUCATION
MFA in Poetry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Michigan Colby Fellowship Thesis: The Hello Girls, Poems, Laura Kasischke and Marie Howe, Advisors BA in English Literature, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Presidential Scholar, Hope Scholarship Recipient, Honors
TEACHING INTERESTS
Poetry & Prosody, Editing & Publishing, Site-Based Poetry, Public Humanities, Ekphrasis, Creative Nonfiction
BOOKS Paragones - Work in progress, offering poems that consider works of art
by female-identifying artists Select poems: “Agency,” appears in the anthology Braving the Body (Small Harbor Publishing, 2024) | “The Couple,” appears in The Common Issue 20, paired with an interview with TC’s managing editor Emily Everett for the New Books in Literature podcast | “Francesca Woodman (1958-1981),” appears in SWWIM | “Self-lit,” selected by Joseph Legaspi as a Poem-A-Day selection from the Academy of American Poets | “through the pinhole, watching” which was included in Betsy Kenyon’s monograph SLUMBER | “(up to now separately),” Winner, CRAFT 2022 Amelia Gray 2K Contest Editor’s Choice Award; nominated for 2023 Best of the Net
We Call Them Beautiful (Diode Editions, 2019) Winner Diode Editions 2018 Book Prize | AUDIO SELECTIONS | Spanish-language translation of WCTB:
forthcoming from Chilean poet Elisa Montesinos; under contract in 2023 with Cuarto Propio
Finalist 2020 First Horizon Finalist, Eric Hoffer Awards; 2018 Beverly Prize and 2017 Sexton Prize from Eyewear Publishing; 2017; BOAAT Poetry Prize (Dean Young, judge); 2017 Autumn House Poetry Prize; (Kimoko Hahn, judge), 2017 Shelterbelt Poetry Prize (Ada Limón, judge); Vassar Miller Prize (2017, Rosanna Warren, judge; 2016, AE Stallings, judge; 2015, Geoffrey Brock, judge; 2011, Lisa Russ Spaar, judge; 2010, J.D. McClatchy, judge); 2014 Kore Press Open Reading; and 2013 Philip Levine Poetry Book Prize (Philip Levine, judge)
The Hasp Tongue (dancing girl press, 2014), dancing girl press chapbook
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