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)
