Journal Publications
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"Haunted House Sestina" forthcoming in Tampa Review
“Midcentury Modern Pantoum” forthcoming in Calyx
“I Never Get What I Want,” Ecotone no. 34 Spring/Summer 2023 (Print)
“What Mothers Do” South Carolina Review vol. 56.1, Fall 2023 (Print)
“Dirge” Chautauqua, Winter 2023 (Print)
“Even Her Hair Was a Mask” New South issue 15.1, 2023
“Ohio’s Other Annie Oakley” and “When Everything Seemed Possible” Smartish Pace, 2023 (Print)
“I’ll Wear This Crown for the Ruined World,” Still: The Journal , 2023
“Self Portrait as Two Annies,” Bayou, 2023
“How I Teach My Daughter Heaven,” in Gulf Coast (2023, print)
“Inheritance” and “Me Time” South Florida Poetry Journal, May 2023
“Self Portrait as Buffalo Bill’s Best Horse” Moon City Review (March 2023, print)
“Vacation,” Poetry South (2023, print, featured on Verse Daily here)
"Annie Oakley: Truest in Heart and Aim" and "On Choice" Cherry Tree (Spring 2023, print)
'Portrait of the Christ,' 'Full Circle,' 'We're Doing it Alright,' and 'When My Father is Ash' forthcoming in South Dakota Review
"My Mother as Moses" and "The Way we Stand in Relation" the fall 2022 "Want" issue of the Ilanot Review
“At the Annie Oakley Festival, There Are So Many Trump 2024 Banners,” Sweet
“How I Teach My Daughter Solitude,” Seneca Review
“Winter’s Carol” Ruminate Magazine
“How We Know Each Other Now,” The Pinch
"My Familiar in the Shape of a Dollar Store Barbie,” the Barbie issue of Limp Wrist. “On Finding a Therapist for My Son,” fall 2022 issue of Limp Wrist
“Thanksgiving” Moist
“Something Like It” Iron Horse Literary Review
“How Not to Be a Proverbs Wife,” Meridian
“Tween” Cimarron Review
“Leave Me Be, Lord,” Jabberwock Review, Spring 2022 (Print)
“Daughter’s Call and Response,” Little Patuxent Review, Spring 2022 (Print)
"Closer to It" Atticus Review, Jan 2022
“Short Sermon on Waiting,” Permafrost 2022 (Print)
“Pinterest Wedding,” Barrow Street, Spring 2022 (Print)
“Housewife as Rumpelstiltskin” and “Visitation Schedule” (Reprints) forthcoming in The American Poetry Journal’s Gods and Monsters anthology (2021)
"American Birthright" and "Britney Spears Pantoum" Lunch Break Zine, December 2021
“Annie Oakley as a First God”, The Night Heron Barks, Fall 2021
“Annie Oakley’s Bullet Inventory” Jet Fuel Review, November 2021
“Not Abraham” B O D Y, October 2021
"Why Annie Oakley and Dolly Parton Had No Children" Contrary, Summer 2021
"Sleep Training," "Epidural," and "Some Nights My Daughter Sings the Lullabies Too,” Autofocus Lit, July 2021
“On Subversion” Yemassee , Summer 2021 (Print)
“The Absurd World” and “Self Portrait as Thetis on the Lap of Zeus” The Hunger, Spring 2021
“On Decay,” Slippery Elm (Print)
“Whitewashing Frank Butler,” Bending Genres, April 2021
“The Internet Asks me What Do You Want to Be” and “Parental Responsibility” Superstition Review, issue 27
"Contradictory Images in the Same Composition" and "Resurrection of Mother and Child,” Salamander (Print)
“How to Survive It” Rhino Poetry (Print)
“On Cutting Him Off” and “Nursery Rhyme” Third Coast (Print)
“Slain in the Spirit,” Boxcar Poetry, issue 41
"Make America Great Again," "Hardwired," and "May it Be a Blessing" Kestrel, 2021 (Print)
“Invasive Species,” The Normal School, 2020
"If I Won't Pass This Down" and "Self Portrait as Judas" The Rupture, December 2020
“Anti-Pastoral,” Sixth Finch, Winter 2021
“Pre-Heroin” Birdcoat Quarterly, issue 4
“Puberty Subjunctive;” “Because God Demands the Silence;” and “Mother with a Split Tongue” in Sequestrum (Print)
“Heroin as Women’s Work,” The Florida Review, Fall 2020 (Print)
“Suburban Housewife Vote,” perhappened Mag, November 2020
“After Walden,” forthcoming in the 2020 Montreal International Poetry Prize Anthology (finalist)
“Dream Girl,” “How I am a Whale Shark,” and “On Being Named the Top Community to Live in Ohio by Money Magazine” Hobart’s HAD, October 2020
“Legend Says,” River Mouth, October 2020
“On Dread,” Cumberland River Review, October 2020
“Anti-Aging Serum,” Beloit Poetry Journal, Fall 2020 (Print)
"Regular Magic" and "Girl as a Deer Shedding the Velvet" The Inflectionist Review, Fall 2020
"American Anesthetic" Spillway, Fall 2020 (Print)
“Natural Beauty Secrets,” Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, 2020
“Gross Negligence;” “How Could She Have Known;” “What My Mother Saw;” and “Self Portrait as Anne Boleyn,” Prism Review (Print)
“How to Keep the Flies Away for Good,” Poet Lore (Print)
“Difference,” New Ohio Review (finalist for the 2020 NORward Poetry Prize)
“Fatal Girl Archetype” and “When My Husband Asks” forthcoming in Saranac Review, Fall 2020
“Passing It On,” “Protective Services, “Narcan Metamorphosis,” and “In the End, We Are All Daughters,” Waxwing, June 2020
“Invasive Spotted Lanternfly Close to Ohio Border,” “Tableau Vivant,” and “Yarn”, Boudin (Online home of The McNeese Review), June 2020
“Girlhood Schism” forthcoming in Anomaly Literary Journal, 2020
“On Letting Go” , The Shore, issue 6 (June, 2020)
“Letting Myself Go,” Qu, January 2020
“Ball and Chain,” Quiddity, January 2020
“Defiant,” The Penn Review, January 2020
“Heroin Ghazal,” EcoTheo Review, 2020 (PRINT)
“Jonah Complex” and “As Christ in the Wilderness” Psaltery and Lyre, 2019
“On Intimacy,” The Comstock Review, 2020 (PRINT)
"Prayer to My Seasonal Depression," December 2019, SWWIM Every Day
“Because a Sharp Girl Must Be a Changeling” Fairy Tale Review (digital), 2019
“I Don’t Know Anything About You,” “What Women Learn About Blood,” and “After Another Mass Shooting” Up the Staircase Quarterly, 2019 (Best New Poets Nomination)
“Captivity Narrative,” Nimrod, 2019 (Print)
“Getting My Body Back,” The Evansville Review, 2019 (also a finalist for the 2018 Fairy Tale Review Award) (Print)
“Dynamics,” Stirring 20th Anniversary Issue, 2019
“Damselfly Nymph” and “Because I Think with You, Maybe I Can,” Lammergeier, Fall 2019 (Issue also includes an interview)
“Dead Wife” Nightjar Review, 2019
“Closer to Home,” Poets Reading the News, August 2019
“May We All Learn to See,” River Heron Review, 2019
“Like I Won’t Take Something from You,” The Cincinnati Review MiCRo series, 2019
“Licentious,” Barren Magazine, 2019
“Pending Charges” and “Halcyon Days” (Print) Harpur Palate, issue 18.2
“Girlhood Landscape” and “Hillbilly Madonnas” (Print) Tar River Poetry, 2019 (PUSHCART NOMINATION)
“Negative Mass,” Inscape 2019 (Print)
“Scheduled Induction” and “Origin Story,” Juke Joint Magazine, 2019
“Because the Little Mermaid Wanted Something Else, Too" and "Moth Muse: A Sapphic,” Heron Tree, 2019
"This Is Where the Irritation Starts," Western Humanities Review (Print)
“On Everything They Left Out,” Glass: A Journal of Poetry, May 2019
"Misconceptions of the Slenderman" in Mansion, Anthology from Dancing Girl Press
“Purity Test,” Barnhouse’s Ohio Loves You Feature, April 2019
"Adulting," Pretty Owl Poetry, April 2019
“A Study On Cracking” Rogue Agent, April 2019 (BEST OF THE NET NOMINATION)
"It Must Be So Exhausting;" and "What He Tears Down Cannot Be Rebuilt,” Mom Egg Review, April 2019
“Visitation Schedule,” Bone Bouquet, Winter 2019
“On the First Day of School,” Ovenbird Poetry, January 2019
“Semipermeable,” Anti-Heroin Chic, January 2019
“The First Time,” Noble/ Gas Quarterly, Winter 2018
"To Annie Von Behren: Shot in the Head Onstage—Cincinnati, 1882," Thimble Literary Magazine, Winter 2018 (PUSHCART NOMINATION)
“Disaster Insurance or Suicide,” Zoetic Press’s Alphanumeric Podcast, and The NonBinary Review
"Blood from a Turnip." Cider Press Review, October 2018
“Lineage or Lullaby” and “Swamp Sparrow as Housewife," Santa Ana River Review, August 2018
"Witch's Mark," forthcoming in Phantom Drift, 2018
"Old Wives Tale," Ghost City Review, August 2018
"Deadbeat," Rivet, July 2018
"I Am That Farmer's Daughter," IDK Magazine, June 2018
"Housewife as Anastasia Romanov;" "Marriage Organisms;" "Housewife as Archetype;" and "First Anniversary Sonnet," Gasher Journal, June 2018
"Mass Shooting Fallout," Whale Road Review, May 2018
"Housewife as Rumpelstiltskin," SWWIM Everyday, April 2018
"If You Can't Love Me," Cheat River Review, April 2018
"Penelope Complex," Glass: A Journal of Poetry, March 2018
"A Waking Image, as Gretel," "Plucky," and "Venus Complex," isacoustic, February 2018
"How to Cope After a Tragedy," The Tishman Review, January 2018 (Finalist for the Edna St Vincent Millay Prize)
"Domestic Pantoum" and "Keep Silent and Let Me Speak," Midway Journal, January 2018 (Best of the Net Nomination)
"Investigating the Shudder," Stirring, January 2018
"Birth Story" Gulf Stream, December 2017
"Schismatic," Stirring Special Issue: Respond Loud/Soft judged by Chen Chen, 2017
“Vow Exchange,” Gigantic Sequins, Fall 2017
“Gertrude Complex,” Alyss April 2017
“Postpartum I” and “Postpartum III” Lingerpost , 2017
“Sometimes, the Right Light” IDK Magazine , Winter, 2016
“Psyche Complex” Timeless Tales, May 2016
“Self Inflicted Gunshot Wound…” and “Try This Stillness” Reservoir, January 2016
“I Have No Love for Images” The Wide Shore, January 2016
“Shared Parental Agreement” Muddy River Poetry Review, Fall 2015
“After the Burial” The Pittsburgh Poetry Review, November 2015
“Autoimmune Anemia: Transfusion” Fox Cry Review, 2014
“Imagine this Bed is its Own Island,” “Full Grown Mammoth Under the Ice in Suberia,” and “It’s the Only Thing We Have to Wear,” For a Better World (Anthology), 2014
“Coffin” and “Explaining Origins and Ending” : Arsenic Lobster, Winter 2014. Pushcart Nomination.
“A Mark on the World” and “I Imagine What That Story Was Like”: Pacific Review “Strangely Ever After” special 2014 edition
“Reborn in the Body as Anne Askew” Rappahannock Review, issue 1. Interview here.
The Rose Red Review, Fall 2013 (Halloween themed)
Illuminations, Issue 29 (Greek themed)
The San Pedro River Review , Fall, 2013
Vine Leaves, Issue 7: Poem “Imaginary Bodies” included in The Best of Vine Leaves Anthology, 2013
The Yellow Medicine Review, Summer 2013
A Few Good Words. The Cincinnati Writers Project Anthology
Feedback on my work from an Amazon reviewer Julie G: “You may want to consider as you start to read, this book is a bit more edgy than one expects from an anthology of poets and writers. You may be surprised. It is a lot to plow through at one sitting, so I have been reading it bit by bit. I take it places. Right now I am haunted by a poem about a grandfather who shoots himself. The poet’s eye sees us as fishes, or birds, maybe. As if the air and the water were one in the same, clearly saying we cannot live one without the other, or find the answer as to how we can live after such a loss. Is the absent Father the answer? I am still reading.”