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Poetry
“In Which Telemachus Dreams of Funerals” | Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology
2023 Penrose Poetry Prize (LGBTQIA+ Writers)
2022 F(r)iction Spring Poetry Contest finalist
“The Train's Last Night to Paris, Two Hours Delayed” | Twyckenham Notes, Issue 16
“Ekphora (or, Telemachus Dreams of Funerals)”
Winner of the 2022 F(r)iction Spring Poetry Contest
“In Which Telemachus Realizes the More He Thinks About a Life Without His Father, the Less of his Life Without a Father He Lives"
2022 F(r)iction Spring Poetry Contest finalist
“Sing, Achilles”
2022 F(r)iction Spring Poetry Contest finalist
“Oranges & Lemons”
2022 F(r)iction Spring Poetry Contest finalist
Palette 2021 Love & Eros Prize Long List
“There's Nothing Like a Florida Sunset”
Palette 2022 Love & Eros Prize Long List
Palette Poetry 2021 Emerging Poet Long List
“In Which Telemachus, Arriving in Sparta with His Boyfriend, Drunk Cries Himself to Sleep”
Palette 2021 Love & Eros Prize Long List
Palette Poetry 2021 Emerging Poet Long List
“In Sicily the Gods Bring Figs in July”
Palette Poetry 2021 Emerging Poet Long List
“Patroclus Comes Home”
Palette 2021 Love & Eros Prize Long List
The 2020 Frontier OPEN Long List
“Sappho 26”
The 2020 Frontier OPEN Long List
“The Excavation of Telemachus”
The 2020 Frontier OPEN Long List
“Persephone: Spring Comes”
Winner of the 2020 Bettye, Esther, and Dorothy Newman Poetry Award
“Boys From the Exclusion Zone” | Post Journal Online
“Paper Birds”
Winner of the Estelle J. Zbar Poetry Prize 2019
“Hylophobia” | Thread Literary Journal Vol. 10, F(r)iction Series Vol. 10
Pushcart Prize nominee
“Persephone Before the Underworld” | Thread Literary Journal Vol. 11, Obsidian 43.2
Winner of the 2017 Bettye Newman Poetry Award
43rd New Millennium Writings finalist
“N 36th & Fremont Ave” | CatheXis Northwest Press
“Hansel & Gretel On a Day Trip” | Thread Literary Journal Vol. 10, F(r)iction Series Vol. 10
“In No Particular Order, a Series of Sleepless Nights” | Thread Literary Journal Vol. 10, F(r)iction Series Vol. 10
“New Jersey, 1999” | Thread Literary Journal Vol. 11
Prose
“Reprise: Persephone Before the Underworld”
Winner of the 2022 F(r)iction Spring Creative Nonfiction Contest
Columbia Journal Spring Contest 2021 prize
“In the Pines” YA Novel
2020 First Pages Prize Short List
“The Mourning Club” | F(r)iction Series
Winner of the Anspaugh Fiction Award 2019
Best American Short Stories 2020 Nominee
“Death on Vacation”
Thread Literary Journal Vol. 11
Fellowships & Workshops
“Tag Yourself: Pathetic Aesthetics & Writing Image”
2021 Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference | Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing Arizona State University