2023

• Nomination, Best of Net 2023, nominated by Another Chicago Magazine (2023)

• Semi-Finalist, Antivenom Poetry Award (2023)

• Longlisted, The Sappho Prize for Women Poets (2023)

• Finalist, Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards(2023)

• Finalist, Willow Springs Books’ Emma Howell Rising Poet Prize (2023)

• Recipient, Stories Matter Foundation Masters Award (2023)

Past Awards

• Longlisted, the tiny journal, climate change contest (2022)

• Winner, The Lawson Prize, from the Illinois Poet Laureate (2022)

• Nomination, The Best New Poets 2022, nominated by Northwestern University’s MFA In Prose and Poetry (2022)

• Recipient, Scholarship to attend the New York State Summer Writers Institute (2022)

• Longlist, the tiny journal, climate change contest (2022)

• Winner, The Lawson Prize, from the Illinois Poet Laureate (2022)

• Nomination, The Best New Poets 2022, nominated by Northwestern University’s MFA In Prose and Poetry (2022)

• Recipient, Scholarship to attend the New York State Summer Writers Institute (2022)

• Nomination, AWP Intro Awards, nominated by Northwestern University’s MFA In Prose and Poetry (2021)

• Longlist, Frontier Poetry 2021 Award for New Poets (2021)

• Winner, Kentucky Writer’s Fellowship, Baltic Writers (2021)

• Finalist, Cow Creek Chapbook Prize (2021)

• Nomination, Best Microfiction Anthology 2020, nomination by Jet Fuel (2020)

• Finalist, Autumn House Press 2020 Chapbook Contest (2020)

• Nomination, The Best New Poets 2020, nominated by Northwestern University’s MFA In Prose and Poetry (2020)

• Participant, 2019 Hadley Creative Class, The Community Foundation of Louisville and Creative Capital (2018)

• Finalist, Kentucky Writer’s Fellowship, Baltic Writers (2017 and 2018)

• Recipient, Hopscotch House Retreat from the Kentucky Foundation for Women (2017)

• Nomination, Pushcart Prize (2016)

• Honorable Mention, James Hearst Poetry Prize (2013)

• Recipient, Emerging Artist Award from the Kentucky Arts Council (2012)

• Finalist, Sarabande Books Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature (2012)

• Recipient, Toyota Alumni Grant, Kentucky Center Governor’s School for the Arts (2011)

• Recipient, Next Generation Leadership Grant, National Nonprofit Alliance (2010)

• Recipient, Fuse the Muse Artist Grant, Rowan County Arts Center (2010)

• Second Place, Sarabande Books Flo Gault Poetry Prize (2009)

• First Place, Sarabande Books Flo Gault Poetry Prize (2008)

• Honorable Mention, Sarabande Books Flo Gault Poetry Prize (2008)

• Finalist, Jim Wayne Miller Creative Nonfiction Contest (2008)

Past Performances, Commissions and Public Readings

• Featured Reader: One Book One Northwestern Climate Change-Themed MFA Reading (2022)

• Featured Artist: LOCUS: VIII, gallery show featuring visual + literary artist pairings (2021)

• Featured Reader, “Dis/Comfort Zones: a journey into the sensations and politics of being”, Actors Theatre of Louisville (2019)

• Featured Reader, Louisville Bespoke Fashion Show (2019)

• Produced Play, “Catcall 2024: Or Why Men Now Cry in Public”, produced by the GRIOT PROJECT, Louisville, KY (2018)

• Featured Reader, featured reader alongside Ada Limon at the 2017 Kentucky Center Governor’s School for the Arts program (2017)

• Commission, Kentucky Center Governor’s School for the Arts. My poem “Insomnia” was choreographed and performed (2016)

• Featured Reader, Spalding at 21c Reading Series (2016)

• Commission, Commemorative occasional poem for Leadership Kentucky program (2015)

• Featured Reader, Spalding at 21c Reading Series (2016)

• Featured Reader, Flying Out Loud Reading Series (2015)

• Featured Reader, Spalding at the Speed Reading Series (2015)

• Featured Reader, INKY Reading Series (2014)