~ AWARDS ~
2023 CMA National Book Awards - 3rd Place Medal
2019 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize - Finalist
2019 Doris Betts Fiction Prize - Finalist
2018 Fly South Fiction Prize and President’s Favorite - Winner
2016 Penelope Niven Award for Excellence in Writing - Winner
~ PUBLICATIONS ~
“Prairie My Heart” & “In Praise of What is Gone” - poems - Salvation South, Summer 2023
“All the Twilight Country” - poem - Wildroof Journal #20, May, 2023
“Apples / First Snow” - poems - Two Hawks Quarterly, Spring 2023
“July, Georgia” - poem - Eunoia Review
“Sunriser / Cicada / Lightness / Oblivion / Trees - Five Poems” - Sterling Clack Clack
“Don’t Let That Sunshine Fool You” - Short Story - Revolution John Magazine
“Sardines” - poem - Spectra Poets
“Bloodlines” - poem - Pangyrus Magazine
“Good Friday” and “Pastoral” - poems - The Holon Project
“Tongueless” - poem - Kingfisher Poetry
“The Orchard” - Short Story - Underwood Literary Magazine
“Small Planes” - Short Story - Parhelion Literary Magazine
"The Sound of Trees" - Short Story - Empty Sink Magazine
"At an Alternative Bar where Tattoos Speak Louder Than We Do" - poem - Yellow Chair Review
"Waiting" - Short Story - Prime Number Magazine
"It Was a Goldfinch" - Short Story - Flash Fiction Magazine
"Parade" - Short Story - Flash Fiction Magazine
"No One's Ever Missing" - Short Story - Flash Fiction Magazine
"Three Poems" - Belle Reve Review
"Collected Poems" - UnbrokenJournal
“Everything is Dead and Breathing” - Revolution John Magazine
"Two Poems" - Change Seven Magazine
"Convertibles" - Short Story - Face Paint Magazine
"Brain Damage" - Flash Fiction Magazine
"Forgive Me Nashville" - Short Story - Scalawag Magazine
"Gnaw" - Brilliant Flash Fiction
~ I N T E R V I E W S / B O O K R E V I E W S ~
CanvasRebel Magazine - Interview - June 25th, 2023
Review of Hold Fast - Katie Valach, The Lavender Hours, April 2023
Review of Move Over Mountain - North Carolina Literary Review - Winter, 2023, by Sharon E. Colley
Red House w/ Tyler Nail - Podcast - November, 2022
Stokes News - Profile - October 12th, 2022
YesWeekly - Profile - October 5th, 2022.
Voyage Minnesota Magazine - Interview - June 23rd, 2022
Relish / Winston-Salem Journal - Profile - January 9th, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal - November 23rd, 2019
Seamingly Style - August 8th, 2016
Writer's Block - November 26th, 2016
Empty Sink Magazine Q&A - July, 2017
88.5 WFDD - Student Interview, July 2017