Selected Poems & Awards

Sun over the Bay of Lugano & Monte Brè in Switzerland

Poems

2025

I Want To Be My Mother When I Turn 75,” LEON Literary Review

“Lucas,” New Delta Review, Issue 15.1, Winter 2025

Caro M.,” Philly Poetry Chapbook Review, Winter 2025

2024

“It’s Not the Bullet That Kills You, It’s the Hole” (inspired by “Four Talks” by Laurie Anderson), Seventh Wave Magazine, Summer 2024 Digital Resident Feature

2023

“Premonitions of a Girl at the Witching Hour,” Coffin Bell, Issue 6.4

“Poem With Too Many Endings,” Meridian, Issue 47

2022

Di Sera, Bettolle” and “Tai Ma,” Cider Press Review, October & December 2022

On Finding Zlatni Rat,” Pigeon Pages, September 2022

2018

“An Aria in Two Parts,” Zone 3, Fall 2018

2017

The Gift,” Dialogist, December 2017

On Disbelief And The Wishes Not Included In Prayers,” Crab Orchard Review, December 2017 & Academy of American Poets College Prize, 2016

“In The Morning, Bettolle” and “Longevity Noodles,” The Merrimack Review, Spring 2017

“The Embalmer,” Mass Poetry Poem of the Moment, May 2017 and Bird’s Thumb, February 2017

What To Do When a Weeping Cherry Tree Is Not Thriving,” Art New England, April 2017

2016

“My Father’s Guitar,” Rock & Sling, Winter 2016


Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

Connecticut Artist Fellowship Award 2025

Administrative Staff Scholar, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 2023-2025

Peter Taylor Fellow (w/Victoria Chang), Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, 2023

Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Voices of Color Fellow, 2021

City of Boston Artist Opportunity Fund Grantee, 2021

Lucille Clifton Memorial Scholar, Community of Writers Poetry Workshop, 2020

Academy of American Poets College Prize, 2016