June, 2025
James Smith, editor of the Southern Poetry Review made my day when he called to tell me that my poem, “Forcing Bulbs” had been chosen by Rachel Hadas as winner of the Guy Owen Prize. If you’d like to read the poem, it will appear in SPR Issue 63:1, out in July. You can also read it on the journal’s website: https://www.southernpoetryreview.org/guy-owen-2025.

May 15, 2025
This spring I had the chance to read with two other finalists for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. I read poems from my new manuscript Foreign, and if you missed the reading, but would like to see it, it’s now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5z8obpHjzc.

January 1, 2025
Nice news for the new year:
I was delighted to hear that Stephanie Burt has chosen my poem, Out of Office Reply as winner of the James Hearst Prize for Poetry. If you woul;d like to read more about the prize, here is a link: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DESYjn3sHQ3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

August 29, 2024
My debut poetry collection, Rise Above the River, was selected as a finalist for the Arizona Book Award for Poetry