Poet
Publications & Prizes
- Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Say/Mirror (JP's debut poetry collection)
- Selected as 2019 author in Lambda Literary's LGBTQ Writers in Schools Program
- Cave Canem Graduate Fellow
- 2017 Split this Rock Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism finalist
- 2016 Lambda Literary Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award Winner
- VONA/Voices Workshop Alum (Poetry, 2014)
- Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging LGBT Voices Fellowship
- Cave Canem Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow in Residence
- Finalist in the poetry category by the Lesbian Writer's Fund of Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
- Soul Mountain Retreat writing residency
- Recipient of Brooklyn Arts Council grants on behalf of Women Writers Bloom Poetry Salon ~ 2014 through 2019