Publications

Books

• Book of Non. Co-authored with Carol Guess. Broadstone Books, 2023. Poetry/Hybrid.
• The J Girls: A Reality Show. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022. Poetry.
• In Which I Play the Runaway. New York: Barrow Street Press, 2016. Poetry.
• The Rusted City: A Novel in Poems. Buffalo: White Pine Press, 2014.

Creative Publications

• “Bharti Kher – Confess” and two other poems. Poetry (June 2025): 244-247.

• “Alice Neel – Andy Warhol,” and two others. The Southern Review 61.1 (Winter 2025): 160-163. 
• “Maria Berrio – The Dream of Flight,” and four other poems. The Georgia Review 78.4 (Winter 2024): 829-833. Poetry.
• “Cecilia Vicuña – The Story of the Red Thread in Athens.” Adroit Journal 45. Poetry/CNF/Hybrid.
• “Carrie Mae Weems – Woman Standing Alone.” Pleiades 43.2 (Fall 2023): 218. Poetry.
• “Maria Nepomuceno – Out the window 3.” AGNI  98: 121-22. Poetry. 
• “Hilma af Klint – The Swan.” Ninth Letter 20.1 (Spring/Summer 2023): 43. Poetry.

• “Mary Cassatt – The Letter” and “Jay DeFeo – The Rose.” Southeast Review 41.1 (Spring/Summer 2023): 111-112. Poetry.

• “Georgia O’Keeffe – Black Iris,” and two other poems. The Kenyon Review vol. XLIV no. 5 (Sept/Oct 2022): 30-32. Poetry.

• “Meret Oppenheim – Object (1936).” Gulf Coast 34.2 (Summer/Fall 2022): 236. Poetry.
• “Nonfiction.” Co-authored with Carol Guess. Iowa Review 51.1: 1-9. Creative Nonfiction. 
• “Some People Love War Like a Song” and “Some People Love War Like a House.”  Poetry Magazine 217:8 (May 2021): 118-119. Poetry.
• “Terror Mirror.” Hayden’s Ferry Review 67 (Fall/Winter 2020): 27-41. Nonfiction.
• “Thigh High,” “My Apologies,” “Prayer for Containment." Bennington Review (Spring 2020). Poetry.
• "Mall Haunts." Michigan Quarterly Review (Winter 2020). Poetry.
• "Lifespans.” Prairie Schooner (Fall 2019): 76-81. Nonfiction. 
• “Demolition Derby Queens, 1996.” Cream City Review 42.2 (Spring 2019). Poetry.
• “The Art Collector.” Southern Indiana Review (Fall 2018): 62-74. Mary C. Mohr Prize Finalist. Nonfiction.
  
• “Car Ode, 1999.” Third Coast 45 (Spring/Summer 2018): 95. Poetry.
• “Zombieland.” Ninth Letter 15.1 (Spring/Summer 2018): 83-98. Nominated for Pushcart Prize. Nonfiction.
  
• “Avon Grotesque.” Diode Poetry 11 (Spring 2018). Poetry/Hybrid.
• “Documentary.” Hayden’s Ferry Review 60 (Summer 2017): 108. Poetry.
  
• “The Birth of Anger at the Roller Skating Rink.” Pleiades 37.2 (Summer 2017): 140. Poetry. 
  
• “Adoration of the J Girls.” Indiana Review 39.1 (Summer 2017): 102-103. Poetry/Hybrid.
  
• “Ponytail Ode.” North American Review 302.2 (Spring 2017): 13. Finalist for James Hearst Prize. Poetry.
• “Teenage Pastoral.” Hotel Amerika 15 (Winter 2017): 102-103. Hybrid. 
  
• “Shame Story VI (Proper Name).” DIAGRAM 17.1 (February 2017). Poetry.
  
• “Wifebeaters.” The Awl: January 12, 2017. Poetry.
• “Three Defenses” and “Specters.” South Dakota Review 53.1 (Fall/Winter 2017): 14-17. Poetry.
  
• “Weeknight.” Greensboro Review 100 (Fall 2016): 22. Poetry.
  
• “Selfward.” Bat City Review 12 (Spring 2016): 77. Poetry.
• “Kaleidoscope.” Phoebe 45.2 (Spring 2016). Winner of Greg Grummer Prize. Poetry.
  
• “I Could Eat You Up.” New South 9.1 (Spring 2016): 131. Poetry.
  
• “There is No Patron Saint for Lost Girls.” Southern Indiana Review (Spring 2016): 15. Poetry.
• “An entrance, an exit, an entrance.” Black Warrior Review 42.2 (Spring 2016): 89-102. Nonfiction Prize Finalist.
• “On Adultery.” American Literary Review (Spring 2016). Poetry.
  
• “Blood Loop.” The Collagist 80 (March 2016). Flash Fiction.
  
• “Half-Hearted” and “Apricots.” Midwestern Gothic 21 (Spring 2016): 63. Flash Fiction. 
  
• “Silence is Golden.” 32 Poems 13.2 (Fall 2015): 11. Poetry.
  
• “Fourteen.” Crazyhorse 87 (Spring 2015): 73-74. Poetry.
  
• “Shame Story I: Origins & Outcomes” and two others. Laurel Review 48.1 (Spring 2015): 73-75. Poetry.
• “Pearl.” Quarter After Eight 21 (Spring 2015): 63-67. Poetry.
  
• “Who Taught You That One?” “Can I Call You Shelly?” and “craniotomy.” The Journal 38.4 (Fall 2014). Poetry.
• “The Gold Letters” (four-poem sequence). Crab Orchard Review 19.2 (Fall 2014): 49-52. Poetry.
• “Self-Portrait in Accident, Maryland.” Harpur Palate 14.2 (Fall 2014): 28-29. Poetry.
  
• “Self-Portrait in Aimwell, Alabama,” and three others. PANK Magazine Online 9.6 (June 2014). Poetry.
  
• “No Place (Dorothy Reconsiders),” and four other poems. Fairy Tale Review 10.1 (Spring 2014): 59-63. 
• “In the Century of Fumes.” Mid-American Review 34.1 (Fall 2013): 3. Poetry.
  
• “Poem in Which I Play the Runaway.” Best New Poets 2013: University of Virginia Press, anthol. eds. Jazzy Danziger and Brenda Shaughnessy, 2013: 22-23. Poetry.
• “Bad Luck.” Versal 11 (2013): 112-113. Flash Fiction.
• “Impossible Child.” The Southeast Review 31.1 (Spring 2013): 76-77. Flash Fiction.
  
• “Dirty Girl.” Passages North 34 (Spring 2013): 11. Flash Fiction.
  
• “Diorama of a Funeral” and “Diorama of a Tiny Death.” The Kenyon Review (KROnline) (Fall 2012). Poetry.
• “In Last Chance, California.” Meridian 29 (Spring/Summer 2012): 53-54. Poetry.
  
• “Honey the Sky Ain’t Going.” Columbia Poetry Review 25 (May 2012): 169. Repub on Verse Daily.
• "The Persistence of St. Teresa of Avila” and “The Stove Tender.” Arts & Letters 26 (Spring 2012): 117-8. Poetry.
• “Third Surgery.” Hunger Mountain 16 (Fall 2011): 150. Poetry.
• “Dorothy Tries.” Portland Review 58.1 (Fall 2011, Film & Video Issue): 102. Poetry.
• “Helen’s Confession.” Poetry International 17 (Fall 2011): 107. Poetry.

Awards

2025     Dorset Prize in Poetry (Book Award), Tupelo Press

2025     Recipient of a Teaching Incentive Award, Faculty Excellence, University of Central Florida

2024     Recipient of a Research Incentive Award, Faculty Excellence, University of Central Florida

2022     Winner of Best of the Net Award in Creative Nonfiction

2021     Winner of Blue Light Books Prize from Indiana Review / Indiana University Press

2020     Recipient of a Glenna Luschei Award (for Creative Nonfiction) from Prairie Schooner

2019     Resident in Creative Nonfiction, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences

2017     Recipient of Residency Fellowship from Yaddo

2016     Recipient of Residency Fellowship from Vermont Studio Center

2016     Winner of Greg Grummer Poetry Prize from Phoebe

2015     Winner of Barrow Street Book Prize

2014     Winner of TQ3 Poetry Prize from Tupelo Quarterly

2013     Winner of Richard Peterson Poetry Prize from Crab Orchard Review

2013     Selected for inclusion in Best New Poets anthology series

2012     Recipient of Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize

2011     Recipient of Artist Residency Fellowship from Jentel Foundation

2011     Winner of Ruth Stone Poetry Prize from Hunger Mountain

2011     Winner of Rumi Prize in Poetry from Arts & Letters

2011     Winner of 2010 Poetry International Prize

Courses

• Fall 2025
• Spring 2026