FICTION
Blue Suitcase (Excerpted from The Impossible Why) — Sad Girl Diaries, An Online Literary Magazine (2020)
The Winning Way — The Abstract Elephant Magazine (2020)
Radiation — Haunted Waters Press — From the Depths, Issue 18 (2020)
Zebras on the Stairs — Meat for Tea: The Valley Review — Volume 14, Issue 4, Spill (2020)
Arrows — The Write Launch (2021)
Mija — Eunoia Review (2021)
Disfellowshipped — Wrongdoing Magazine, Pushcart Prize Nominee — Issue 2 (fall 2021)
At the Top — Broad River Review, Rash Award in Fiction Finalist — Volume 53 (fall 2021)
I Don’t See a Cat — Passengers Journal, with audio — Volume 3, Issue 1 (spring 2022)
Schoolhouse — The Ear Literary Magazine — Volume 25, Issue 25 — (summer 2022)
How We Begin — The Sandy River Review — Volume 42 — (summer 2022)
Violets (Excerpted from The Impossible Why) — Barzakh Magazine - Issue #15 — (summer 2022)
Carpet Cleaner's Daughter — StoryQuarterly , 2nd Runner Up Ninth Annual Fiction Prize — Issue 54 — (fall 2022)
Skate Night — the Texas Review — Volume 41 — (summer 2022)
Grandparent’s Day — JAKE — (summer 2023)
The Dangers of Dishwashing — Sequoia Speaks — (summer 2023)
The Orb Weaver — White Wall Review — (winter 2023)
(I Won’t Know, Until Later) — Moon City Review — (2024)
He is Mine — Bryant Literary Review — Volume 25, Page 86 — (2024)
Convention — Etched Onyx Magazine, 1st Place Prose Contest — (spring 2024)
Teams — Stonecoast Review — Issue 22 — (2025)
NONFICTION/ESSAYS
Marked — Reckon Review —(fall 2024)
Rhubarb Pie Day (flash) — The Bluebird Word — (fall 2024)
A Little Slice of the Moon — New Letters, Winner of the Conger Beasley Jr. Award in Nonfiction — Volume 90 nos. 1&2 (winter/spring 2024)
Bizarre, A Life — Tahoma Literary Review — Issue 26 (spring 2024)
Jennifer — Volney Road Review — Issue #6 (winter 2024)
Lessons in Healing From the Aisles of Target — Feminine Collective — (winter 2024)
Third Time’s a Charm — Fauxmoir Lit Mag — Issue #11 (fall 2023)
My Fears Attack — Unleash Lit — (summer 2023)
What Does it Mean to Be Hungry — The Coachella Review — (summer 2023)
Pulling Away (flash) — Longridge Review, Pushcart Prize Nominee — Issue #26 (spring 2023)
Estranged — Sonora Review — Special Issue: Extinction (spring 2023)
Iowa Blues, and Greens — The Good Life Review, Best of the Net 2023 Nominee — Issue #10 (spring 2023)
In the Meadow — Cagibi — Issue #15 (2022)
The Poison House — Causeway Lit, Winter Nonfiction Contest Winner — (2021)
Back Roads — Sunspot Literary Journal — Volume 3 Issue #1 (2021)
Back Roads: A Love Story —The Missouri Review, Miller Audio Prize Finalist —Episode 52 (2021)
Cottonmouths and Cypress Knees: An Elegy — The Dillydoun Review (2020)
EDITOR
2017 - 2018
Awards & Contests
2024 Onyx Short Story Contest, Winner for “Convention” — August 2024 — Etched Onyx Magazine
2023 Pushcart Prize Nomination for “Pulling Away” — Spring 2023 — Longridge Review
2023 Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction, Winner for “A Little Slice of the Moon” — October 2023 — New Letters
2023 Best of the Net Nomination for “Iowa Blues, and Greens” — September 2023 — Good Life Review
2023 Long Story Competition, Runner-Up for “(I Won’t Know, Until Later)” —Winter 2023 — Iron Horse Literary Review
2022 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize Contest, Finalist for “The Several Sins of Heidi Spencer” — Fall 2022 — Missouri Review
2022 Volume XI Contest, Longlisted for “The Dangers of Dishwashing”— July 2022 —The Master’s Review
2022 Nimrod Literary Awards: Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, Semi-finalist for “The Dangers of Dishwashing” — May 2022 — Nimrod International Journal
2021 StoryQuarterly Ninth Annual Fiction Prize, Second Runner-Up for “Carpet Cleaner’s Daughter” — Fall 2022 — StoryQuarterly
2021 Missouri Review Miller Audio Prize, Finalist for “Back Roads: A Love Story” —March 2022 — Missouri Review Miller Aud-cast Episode 52
2021 Pushcart Prize Nomination for “Disfellowshipped” — October 2021 — Wrongdoing Magazine
2021 Rash Awards in Fiction, Finalist for “At the Top” — June 2021 — Broad River Review
2021 Winter Short Story Award, Longlisted for “At the Top” — May 2021 — The Master’s Review
2021 Winter Nonfiction Contest, Winner for “The Poison House” — February 2021 — Causeway Lit
The Kathy Rugoff Scholarship in English Honors — August 2020 — UNCW Department of English
Robert H. Byington Award — April 2018 — The Department of Creative Writing University of North Carolina Wilmington
