Selected poems

“Mend” - Poetry Northwest, selected by Kwame Dawes to be reprinted in American Life in Poetry

“Shoes” - International 2022 Rattle Poetry Prize winner, selected by editors as a Pushcart Prize nomination

“Exodus, Gilliam Coal Camp, West Virginia, 1949” - International 2021 Rattle Poetry Prize Finalist

“Genealogical Trip to Pulaski, Virginia” - Tin House Online

“Some Nights We Have the Moon” - New Limestone Review

“H. macrophylla” - International 2023 Poetry London Prize, third place winner, selected by Rachel Long

“Gone” and “Fish Fry” - Appalachian Review. “Gone” won the 2020 Denny C. Plattner Award selected by Jeremy Paden, and “Fish Fry” was selected by editors as a Best New Poets nomination

“Fish Fry” (reprint) - Sheila-Na-Gig online, selected by editors as a Pushcart Prize nomination

“Ghazal: Hog Killing Time” - Southern Humanities Review

“sweets” - the minnesota review

“the bone carrier,” “The Unmapped Place,” and “Tradition” - PLUCK! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture and New Limestone Review, Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize, second place winner

“Why Family is a Fraught Term” - Water~Stone Review. Vol. 24

“Embodiment” - Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. Issue 47.1

“Ars Poetica: As Archaeologist” - HeartWood, Poetry Prize, semi- finalist

“damaged goods” - Poet Lore. Volume 115. No 1/2

“Ode to Plantmomdom” - Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment

“Exodus, Chatham, VA, 1901,” “Revision,” and “Ode to my Mama’s Bathrobe” - Still: The Journal

“2 Legit” - I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing, Ohio’s Appalachian Voices. Anthology (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2022)

“A Ride in Brooklyn,” “Becoming,” and “Rewombing at the Bottom of the Atlantic” - The Fire Inside, Volume II. Zora’s Den Anthology (ZD Press, 2022)