Publications

Publication Credits:

Essays online you might like:

• "Field Guide to Resisting Temptation," Brevity
• "Going Out of Town," The Mom Egg: VOX MOM Column (forthcoming, June 10, 2013)
• "Use What Yo Daddy Gave You: On Poetry in Church," Antler
• "Realizing Potential: An Ashland Alum Reflects on Her Journey from Student to Administrator to Author," Accent Magazine
• "The Grateful Shrub," Tweet Speak Poetry
• "Grounded: Engaging the Spiritual in Poetry" (essay), Poets Quarterly
• "Those Summers, These Days," Ascent (December 2011) Listed as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2012; featured on Longreads.com

Poems online you might like:

• "Creek Walk," Verse Daily
• "Daylily," r.kv.r.y
• "Cascade Valley," Ascent
• "The Swale," Floorboard Review, #1
• "Honky-Tonk Bride," Rock & Sling
• "The ladies' quilting club is out today," Literary Mama
• "Singing Birds," The New Formalist, Vol. 8, No. 2

Published Poems, Online and In-Print

• "Seasonal Work," appeared in Every Day Poems April 1, 2013.
• "Rappelling," Chautauqua Journal (forthcoming, 2013).
• "Harvest Meal" and "Calling Hours," Rock & Sling (2013).
• "Jesus and the Herd of Pigs," The Common (forthcoming, Fall 2013).
• "Explaining Easter," "Sunbathing," "What Is a Miracle?" Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression (2013).
• "A Christmas Poem," Christianity & Literature (forthcoming).
• "Rumble Strip," The Cresset (Christmas 2012).
• "Picture Book," Puerto del Sol (Winter 2012).
• "Making the Bed," New Ohio Review (Fall 2012).
• "Creek Walk," Verse Daily (August 12, 2012).
• "My Mother's Kitchen," Alimentum, Issue 13 (Winter 2012).
• "Casa Blanca Lily," Poetry East, #71 (Fall 2011).
• "Sifted as Wheat," Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry, Vol. 5:1 (2011).
• "Daylily," r.kv.r.y (April 2011).
• "Cascade Valley," Ascent (January 2011).
• "The Swale," Floorboard Review, #1 (January 2011).
• "Let's Go Fly a Kite," Vending Machine: Poems for Change (November 2010).
• "Stumps," The Fourth River, Issue 7 (Winter 2010).
• "Junction," Poetry for the Masses, Vol. 3, No. 2 (November 2010).
• "Honky-Tonk Bride," Rock & Sling (online October 25, 2010).
• "Interference" and "Rain Dance," Nimrod: International Journal of Prose and Poetry , Awards 32 (Fall/Winter 2010).
• "The ladies' quilting club is out today," Literary Mama (May 2010).
• "Angry," Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature (January 2010).
• "Hymn of Skin," JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association), Vol. 303, No. 9 (March 3, 2010).
• "Dent de Lion," Christianity and Literature (June 2010).
• "The Peony: To the Ant", Common Threads (2009).
• "Singing Birds," The New Formalist, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2009).
• "Pruning Burning Bushes," Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression, Vol. 2, No. 4 (2008).

Articles and Essays, Online and In-Print

• "Field Guide to Resisting Temptation," Brevity (May 15, 2013).
• "Going Out of Town," The Mom Egg: VOX MOM Column (June 10, 2013).
• "Underwater," Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression (2013).
• "Planting Seeds," The Evangelist (Publication of the Brethren Church, January 2013).
• "Use What Yo Daddy Gave You: On Poetry in Church," Antler (September 6, 2012).
• "Realizing Potential: An Ashland Alum Reflects on Her Journey from Student to Administrator to Author," Accent Magazine (Summer 2012).
• "The Grateful Shrub," Tweet Speak Poetry (July 2012).
• "Grounded: Engaging the Spiritual in Poetry," Poets Quarterly (July 2012).
• "Country Boys, City Boys,", River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative (Spring 2012) - available through ProjectMUSE.
• "Those Summers, These Days," Ascent (December 2011) Listed as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2012; featured on Longreads.com October 10, 2012.

Awards and Recognition:

• "Those Summers, These Days" listed as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2012
• Poetry manuscript, Pruning Burning Bushes, one of five finalists for the 2012 T.S. Eliot Prize through Truman State University Press
• Chapbook manuscript, Against the Ground, one of five finalists for the 2010 Wick Poetry Chapbook Open Competition
• Poetry for the Masses nominated "Junction" for a Pushcart Prize in 2010
• Received a scholarship to attend the 2010 West Chester Poetry Conference
• Received a partial scholarship to attend the 2010 Key West Literary Seminar
• "The Angry Gardener" selected as honorable mention in the Akron Art Museum's New Words 2009 Poetry Contest
• Poetry from Acquiesce nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2009
• Nominated for a fellowship to the 2010 Breadloaf Writer's Conference