Poet
Publications & Prizes
The A3 Press Chapbook Prize (2020), Graduate Assistantship at Northern Illinois University (2018-2019), Maude Hammond Fling Fellowship at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2017-2018), English Graduate Student Association Award in Teaching Excellence from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2017), Karen Dunning Creative Activity Award from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2017), Digital Scholarship Incubator Fellowship at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2017), Published finalist in the Tupelo Quarterly Call & Response Poetry Contest, Preparing Future Faculty Fellowship at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2017), Gaffney/Academy of American Poets Prize from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2016), Karen Dunning Creative Activity Award from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2016), National Association for Poetry Therapy Conference Scholarship (2016), Summer Tide Pool Chapbook Prize (2016), Graduate Student Travel Fellowship from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2016), Published finalist in the Talking Writing Hybrid Poetry Contest (2015), Graduate Chancellor's Fellowship at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2014), Graduate Teaching Assistantship at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2014), Published finalist in the Diagram Hybrid Essay Contest (2013), Summer Faculty Research Grant from Augusta College (2013), John Woods Scholarship from Prague Summer Program (2013), Mucke/Roff Scholarship from Split Rock Arts Program (2011), Writing Fellowship at Augustana College (2010), Robin Becker Chapbook Prize (2009), Jr. Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis (2009), Lettre Sauvage Chapbook Prize (2009), Academy of American Poets Prize from Washington University in St. Louis (2008), Frank O’Hara Chapbook Award (2007), Norma Lowry Memorial Fund Prize from Washington University in St. Louis (2007), Selected for Best New Poets by Natasha Trethewey (2007), Graduate Teaching Fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis (2006)