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Collected Publications

Faded Shapes

ESSAYS

Bodies, Lakes, and Other Uninhabitable Places – Electric Literature

Ghost Boys: A Bricolage – Black Warrior Review

I Know My Body Tried to Save Me – Brevity

Piercing: A Schematic – Great River Review
Transcendence – Thrive125
The Becoming – Sink Hollow Contest Edition (2021)
A Re-established Poetic Dictionary of the Voiceless – Sink Hollow Contest Edition (2020)
Gracious Ruin – South 85 Literary Journal
Craving – Mangrove Literary Journal

SHORT STORIES

Dessert Sushi – New Delta Review
Alchemic-like: 16 Ways to Look at Transformation – 15 Bytes
An Easy 10-Step Guide to Painting Addiction – Sink Hollow Contest Edition (2020)
Infectious – Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal
Just a Little Broken – Tinge Magazine

POETRY

Alchemy: An Abridged Biography – Missouri Review, Poem of the Week (2024)
i don't know how to be poz – Michigan Quarterly Review, Mixtape Series: Rage (2024)
For the Boy at the Parade – Sink Hollow Contest Edition (2021)
In Spring, After She Calls Me – Sink Hollow Contest Edition (2021)
Let Go – Sink Hollow Contest Edition (2021)
Whiskey-dick – Beyond Words: Beyond Queer Words Poetry Anthology
3a.m. Considerations – Sink Hollow Contest Edition (2020)
I Like to Sweep – Sink Hollow Contest Edition (2020)
When He Asks: How are You? – Sink Hollow Contest Edition (2020)
Another Unending – Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal
Funeral Prayer – Peculiar: A Queer Literary Journal
Painting a One-Night – Sink Hollow Contest Edition (2017)
The Pulp on Which We Write – Sink Hollow Contest Edition (2017)
Release – Sink Hollow Contest Edition (2017)

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Awards, Grants, & Fellowships

Citino Poetry Award: Second Place (2024)

"HIV: The Abridged Biography," Selected by Genevieve Betts

Presidential Fellowship, The Ohio State University (2023-2024)

Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant for Local Artists (2023)

Black Warrior Review Creative Nonfiction Writing Contest, Finalist (2023)

Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest, Finalist (2023)

Vandewater Prize in Poetry, (2022)

"Alchemy: An Abridged Biography," Selected by Raina Shirali

CRAFT Hybrid Writing Contest, Finalist (2022)

First Prize: Creative Nonfiction Book, Utah Original Writing Competition (2021)

Wolf Act, Selected by Nicole Walker

University Graduate Fellowship, The Ohio State University (2021-2022)

Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest, Finalist (2021)

Wolf Act

Diversity Award, Utah State University (2020-21)

Utah State University Graduate Creative Writing Contest (2021)

First Prize: Creative Nonfiction, "The Becoming"
First Prize: Fiction, "Alchemic-Like: 16 Ways to Look at Transformation"
First Prize: Poetry, "For the Boy at the Parade," "In Spring, After She Calls Me," & "Let Go"
First Prize: Art

Honorable Mention: Creative Nonfiction Essay, Utah Original Writing Competition (2020)

"Piercing: A Schematic," Selected by Steven Church

Kenneth W. Brewer Creative Writing Award (2020)

Ty and Nan Booth Endowment (2020)

Utah State University Graduate Creative Writing Contest (2020)

First Prize: Creative Nonfiction, "A Re-established Poetic Dictionary of the Voiceless"
Second Prize: Fiction, "An Easy 10-Step Guide to Painting Addiction"
Third Prize: Poetry, "3a.m. Considerations," "I Like to Sweep," & "When He Asks: How are You"
First Prize: Art

Second Prize: Creative Nonfiction Essay, Utah Original Writing Competition (2017)

"Marquinn Intake Form," Selected by Michael Martine

First Prize: Poetry, Utah State University Graduate Creative Writing Contest (2017)

"Painting a One-Night," "Release," & "The Pulp on Which We Write,"

Ralph Jennings Smith Creative Writing Endowment (2017)

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