Beyond grant writing, I write poems from time to time... I’m currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University. My poetry mentors include Suzanne Underwood Rhodes, Arkansas Poet Laureate; Tracy Rice Weber (Christopher Newport University and Old Dominion University);
Dr. Henry Hart (William & Mary), Virginia Poet Laureate; and Dr. Luisa Igloria (Old Dominion University), Virginia Poet Laureate.
Creative Writing
Publication in literary journals
Framing Our Life Stories, Arkana Magazine, Substack, Nov. 2025
Articles
Recognition
Nominated by Literary Mama for 2026 Best of the Net Anthology, “Menorrhagia”
Poetry Society of Virginia Contest Finalist, “Inversion,” “Disappearing in the Panhandle,” and “Menorrhagia” in 2024; and “Athena” in 2022
Poetry Roundtable of Arkansas Poetry Day Contest Finalist in 2023, “Putting a Child to Bed: An Abecedarian”
Shann Palmer Poetry Contest Finalist, Issued by James River Writers, published in Richmond Magazine, September 2021, “Sonata”
Literary Mama: “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Baby,” forthcoming in Winter 2026/2027 and Menorrhagia, March/April 2025
Tiger Leaping Review: Letter to a Younger Self, Spring 2026
The Bluebird Word: The Farm, Three Months after Dad’s Death, April 2026
Piker's Press: Death and the Maiden: An Elegy, Dec. 2025; The Farm, Nov. 2025; “Summer Night Insomnia, forthcoming in August 2026;
“Lullaby to a Fawn,” forthcoming in Sept. 2026; and “Disappearing in the Panhandle,” forthcoming in Nov. 2026Ekphrastic Review: Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld, January 2026
The Write Launch: Aujargues in Mid-Summer, Summer Evening Walk After Rain & Eros & Philia: A Botany of Love, Nov. 2025
Shot Glass Journal: Vishuddha & Parking Lot Prayer, Sept. 2025
Neologism Poetry Journal: Psalm of the Heart: A Dizain, Sept. 2025
Arkana Magazine: The Farm, Slivers of Memory & A Truthful Obituary, Spring 2025
Ekstasis Magazine: Crucifixus, Winter 2024-2025
Lullwater Review: “I Have Loved You,” in print, Spring 2024
Uppagus: Another Night Song, May 2024
Poetry Society of Virginia 2024 Anthology:“Inversion” in print, Sept. 2024
Richmond magazine: Sonata, Sept. 2021