Arts

Poetry

[Forthcoming] “At the Sea-Coast” in Heron Tree

[Forthcoming] “Dream Definitions” in Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag

“fishhook” in West Trestle Review

“Ode to the Crow River” in Agates, 2025

“Discord’s Golden Apple” in Club Plum Literary Journal, vol. 6, issue 3

“wheatfield with crows” in Pictura Journal, Issue 4

“Chesapeake” in RHINO, 2019

“Sweet Old Jan Gifts Us a Blanket” in Third Wednesday Magazine

“Anthurium” in Bird’s Thumb, vol. 4, issue 1

“commute” and “commute (tonight)” in Wild Roof Journal, issue 7

“Braid” in Burningword Literary Journal, issue 69

“TFMR* Fairytale” and “Another Memory” in Agates, 2023

“Grid” in Cracked Walnut Anthology Rewilding Hope

“april” in Fearsome Critters, The Quaranzine

“Nausicaa at Sixty” in Hartskill Review, vol. 4, issue 1

“IT’S BETTER THIS WAY” and “I, too, saw the whale” in Right Hand Pointing, issue 114: future words

“Pastoral” in Unlost Journal, issue 10

Awards

Midwest Writing Center’s Iron Pen Contest (2025), Honorable Mention (Fiction), “Lamentation”

John Rezmerski Memorial Manuscript Competition (2024), 3rd Honorable Mention (Poetry Collection), “The Witch’s Mouth”

John & Helen Pappas Memorial Award (2024), 2nd Place (Poetry), “Voice of Z.”

Southern Minnesota Poets Society Award (2021), Honorable Mention (Poetry), “Jan”

Steinography Award (2021), Honorable Mention (Poetry), “Ekphrastic Universe”

Faricy Award for Poetry (2011), First Place co-winner, “Thetis”

Faricy Award for Poetry (2011), Third Place, “Ode to the Crow River”

Edwin L. Shuman Best Honors Thesis in Writing (2011), co-winner, “Origins”

Edwin L. Shuman Prize for Fiction (2010), Second Place, “Tarragona”

Goings-on / Readings

[Upcoming] Agates IndyBookStore Tour, Milkweed Books, Minneapolis, MN (November 2, 2025 at 1:00PM)

[Upcoming] Agates IndyBookStore Tour, Hearthside Books, Watertown, MN (October 25, 2025 at 12:00PM)

[Upcoming] Agates IndyBookStore Tour, The Book Nook, Delano, MN (October 4, 2025 at 4:30PM)

Writer’s Night Out at OMNI Brewing, Maple Grove, MN (April 2025)

Midwest Writing Center’s Iron Pen Awards Reading, Rock Island, IL (March 2025)

Poets & Pints, Minneapolis, MN (July 2024)

Penned Poets, Online (January 2024)

Cracked Walnut Literary Festival Reading with League of MN Poets – Great River Chapter (October 2023)

Literary Bridges, St. Paul, MN (October 2023)

Reader and representative for Northwestern University at the 12th Annual Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival, Chicago, IL (2011)

Positions

League of Minnesota Poets Website Guru (2025-present)

Cracked Walnut (Twin Cities Chapter of the League of Minnesota Poets) Board Member and Website Guru (2023-present)

Nonfiction Editor at Great Lakes Review (2020-present)

Art

“January Woods I” in Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, issue 9