Publications

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Fragrant Inferno 2009 Winner of the Anabiosis Press chapbook competition. Available 2010.

Broken Plums on the Sidewalk 2009 Winner of the Midwest Writing Center's Mississippi Valley Chapbook competition. Available 2010.

"Field Trip," "Reading Birds," Bone Bouquet

"Museum," "Love Poem" Cider Press Review

"Apocalypse," Gulf Coast

"Rupture," The Greensboro Review

"November," "Nesting," "Lesson," "10:56," "Dia de los Muertos," Locuspoint:Phoenix

"Garden Wall," Makeout Creek

"Pescadita," Pebble Lake Review

"Trojan Horse," Puerto del Sol

"Mojo Wagon," Red-Headed Stepchild

"Women Like Me," Slipstream

"Sugar Bust," Southern Women's Review

"Lunch Parable," Tar River Poetry

"Samyaza," "Lucifer," and "The language of angels," Thirty First Bird Review

"Champy Takes the Family to Georgia Coast for Winter Vacation," Jekyll Island Beachscapes

      

Awards

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Finalist: Cider Press Review Book Award, 2009

Virginia G. Piper Post-MFA Fellowship, 2008

Virginia G. Piper Center Summer Fellowship, judge Rigoberto Gonzalez. 2007

International Teaching Fellowship, National University of Singapore. 2007

First Place Swarthout Award in Poetry, judge Ron Smith. 2006

Prague Summer Program's John Woods Scholarship and Essay Contest Award. 2005

College of Charleston Summer Research Grant, funded research in the British Museum with Dr. Tim Carens. 2005

Charleston Educational and Cultural Foundation Award, partially funded Prague Summer Program. 2005

Thank you to all of the institutions and generous patrons that have made these awards possible, and who made my research, teaching, and writing career so much richer.