Selected Poems & Awards

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
“As If Death Could Be Washed Off of Us” and “Temple Street Night Market,” Salamander, Fall/Winter 2022-2023
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