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Selected Publications
"Trust a Woman with Many Jars" - Still: The Journal
"Field Study of Melancholy" - Poetry Ireland Review (Issue 136)
"On the Day I Bury the River" - Blood Orange Review
"On Being From Nobody" and "Jeff St. Baptist Community at Liberty" - storySouth
"3 Truths & a Lie [ Louisville, Kentucky ]" - TAUNT
"Song from the Color Red" - Broadsided Press
"Biography of a [ ] Girl" - Hobart
"My Mother Had Hands Before She Had Children" & "My City Saw the First Black Athlete Millionaire, Jockey Isaac Murphy, And Afterward the Winning Jockeys Were White"
- Up the Staircase Quarterly
"How a Temper Grows Up" - Vinyl
Selected Prizes & Awards
2024 Disquiet International Literary Prize Finalist
2022 Corson-Browning Poetry Prize - Cornell University
2021 Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Prize, 2nd Place - Cornell University
2021 Scotti Merrill Award for Poetry Finalist - Key West Literary Seminar
2020 St. Lawrence Book Award Finalist - Black Lawrence Press
2017 Ron Wallace Poetry Prize Winner - University of Wisconsin - Madison
Press
"Louisville poet pays homage to the 'Slack Tongue City' in debut poetry book" - The Courier-Journal
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