Education
B.A. Political Science, B.A. International Studies, College of Charleston, 2016, Magna Cum Laude, William Aiken Fellow, International Scholar
Books
Grief Slut: Poems, Sundress Publications, 2024
Heathens and Liars of Lickskillet County: Novel, PRA, 2016
Chapbooks
Buggery: Poems, Bateau Press (BOOM Chapbook Prize), 2020
Glitter Husk: Poems, 2019
Skinny Dipping with Strangers: Poems, 2014
Awards
National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, 2023
Linda Veldheer Memorial Poetry Prize, Poetry Society of South Carolina, 2022
BOOM Chapbook Prize, Bateau Press 2019-2020
Broad River Prize for Prose, 2019
KAKALAK Poetry Award, 2018
Emrys Press Poetry Prize, 2018
The Patricia & Emmett Robinson Poetry Prize, Poetry Society of South Carolina, 2018
McCray Nickens Poetry Fellowship Finalist, 2020
Gigantic Sequins Poetry Contest Finalist, 2018
Black River Chapbook Competition Finalist, 2018
V Press Chapbook Contest Finalist, 2018
Emrys Press Chapbook Prize Finalist, 2018
Select Publications
Short Fiction
“Home Party,” Fall Lines, 2024
“The Mermaid Riot,” Petigru Review, 2023
“Sasquatch,” Fall Lines, Broad River Prize for Prose, 2019
“Bait for the Dammed,” The Inkling, 2011
Poetry
“In the backyard, i slip,” “summer of the push power,” Day Job Journal, 2023
“Coronation,” Drunk Monkeys, 2023
“Easy worship,” Horns Volume 3, 2023
“The trans archive self-immolates,” South Carolina Review, 2023
“With spoiled fruit,” Fall Lines, 2023
“yes, i’ve seen the future & i promise i’m still alive,” Fatal Flaw Lit Magazine, 2022
“how to banish a ghost,” Gasher, 2022
“the joy of a biscuit,” Local Life Magazine, 2022
“Love in the year of the tiger balm,” Dr. Linda Veldheer Memorial Prize, PSSC Yearbook, 2022
“The first time my nipples,” Powders Press, 2022
“Southern apocrypha smeared with duke’s mayonnaise, 1974,” Identity Theory, 2022
“David holding goliath’s head,” Litro Magazine, 2022
“Impossible ecology,” “in praise of the takeout egg drop soup container,” Jasper Writes, 2022
“Ecology of queers,” Susurrus Magazine, 2022
“southern apocrypha with rumor of rodeo clown,” Anti-Heroin Chic, 2022
“In praise of Swamp Soil,” Cypress Gardens Poetry, 2022
“getting slobber is east if you loose your teeth,” petrichor, 2021
“what you mean when you say regret,” Sledgehammer Lit, 2021
“radish spirit visits the bathhouse,” Impossible Archetype, 2021
“nest,” “genderfluent,” “delirium in c sharp minor,” Jasper Writes, 2021
“a bacchanal,” Carolina Muse, 2021
“Ritual superstition,” Fall Lines, 2021
“chandelier,” beestung, 2021
“southern ecology,” “still,” Sandhills, 2020
“fruit archive,” Zingara Poetry Journal, 2020
“Aubade in Omelas,” “BLACK OUT,” “Grief Habit,” ANMLY, 2020
“iva,” Underblong, 2020
“i know about joy,” “still life with diving duck,” Jet Fuel Review, 2019
“brothers,” Raleigh Review, 2019
“still life with escaped [lamb],” Beloit Poetry Journal, 2019
“mothman fucks me from behind,” Longleaf Review, 2019
“musk eater,” Running with Water Anthology, 2019
“county fair,” Lackadaisy, 2019
“aubade with baja blast spiked with gin,” Taco Bell Quarterly, 2019
“dressed in drag in a small town bar,” Yemassee, 2019
“funeral speech,” Emrys Journal, 2019
“after the divorce, icarus tries again,” The Broken Plate, 2019
“below the graniteville mill,” Barely South Review, 2019
“sloppy magician,” “homesickness,” The Blue Mountain Review, 2019
“a man says faggot, but you mishear him, ask forget what?” Impossible Archetypes, 2019
“loneliness is a language written in bright slobber,” 8 Poems, 2019
“annotations for [redacted] elegy,” Gigantic Sequins, 2019
“what we mean when we say holy,” “January,” 2018
“lotus eater,” BOAAT Journal, 2018
“listening to an audio recording of an ivory-billed woodpecker in a walmart parking lot,” Animal: A Beast of a Literary Journal, 2018
“android boy abstains,” “android boy visits the arcade,” Landfill, 2018
“<android boy builds a body>” Split Rock Review, 2018
“magpie lullaby,” Open Minds Quarterly, 2018
“potluck,” museum of americana, 2018
“ecology of queers,” Fall Lines, 2018
“on being hungover,” “mandala for a rotten liver,” Pidgeonholes, 2018
“holy, holy, holy,” Poetry on the Comet, 2018
“good ghost,” “Saturn eating his son,” armarolla, 2018
“elegy for whoever you were supposed to be tomorrow,” K’in, 2018
“the incredulity of saint Thomas,” “on affection,” Glint Journal
“not another teen ghost story: libretto for film remake,” PSSC, 2018
“triptych for my father,” Rabid Oak, 2018
Book Reviews
“Orchid Alpha Dares Us to Know Kimberly Ann Southwick,” Review of Orchid Alpha by Kimberly Ann Southwick, Free State Review 2023
“In A Pooka in Arkansas, Poet Ed Madden Reclaims the Role of Outcast,” Review of A Pooka in Arkansas by Ed Madden, Jasper Magazine, 2023
Review of Nevada by Imogen Binnie, Gigantic Sequins, 2022
“The Violence Almanac Centers An American Obsession with Brutality,” Review of The Violence Almanac by Miah Jeffra, Free State Review, 2021
“Eric Trans Maps Identity Through Pop Culture, Then Erases the Map Through Grief,” Review of Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer by Eric Tran, Free State Review, 2020
“Sleepovers Gets the Rural South Not Just Right, But Realistic,” Review of Sleepovers by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, Free State Review, 2020
“Embracing Nonsense,” Review of many appetites by Jason Gordon, Free State Review, 2020
“A Prayer Against Rising Tides,” Review of Drowning in the Floating World by Meg Eden, Free State Review, 2020
“Escaping Every Danger Except the Past,” Review of Orders of Protection by Jenn Hollmeyer, Free State Review, 2019
“A Realistic Portrait of Gay Rural Life,” Review of Texas Crude by Thomas Kearnes, Free State Review, 2019
Non-fiction Opinion
“How Reading Queer Books Changed My Life,” Free Times, October 2023
Select Performances
Wild, Precious Life, Online Reading Series, 2024
Grief Slut Release Party, One Columbia, 2024
Park Circle Pride Festival North Charleston, SC, 2021 - 2023
Perspective Poetry, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, 2023
Pride Poetry Night, All Good Books, 2023
Writers in the Ring, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, 2023
A Spring Celebration, Columbia Museum of Art, 2023
Trans Poetry Celebration, Mind Gravy, Columbia, SC, 2023
Dope Spit & Open Mic, Ikonz Sports Bar and Grill, Augusta, GA, 2023
WordShed NYC, New York City, NY, 2022
Annual Crescendo Celebration of the Arts, Hilton Head, SC, 2022
Poetry Society of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 2022
Pride Show, Pexcho’s Dime Museum, Augusta, GA, 2022
Art Meets Life, Fayetteville, NC, 2022
Le Chat Noir, Augusta, GA, 2021
Augusta Pride Festival, The Book Tavern, Augusta, GA 2021
Orangeburg County Arts Center, Orangeburg, SC, 2021
Tuesday Duets, Zoom Reading, 2021
Free Verse Poetry Festival, Charleston, SC, 2017-2020
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, 2019
Poetry Society of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 2019
Jailbreak! Arts Festival, 2015-2018
Peace Center, Greenville, SC 2018
University of South Carolina—Aiken, Aiken, SC, 2018
Gailliard Performing Arts Center, Charleston, SC 2018
Arts in the Heart Festival, Augusta, GA, 2011-2019
Goetry, Athens, GA, 2018
Firestorm Books, Asheville, NC, 2018
Common House, North Charleston, SC, 2019, 2021
Augusta University Writer’s Weekend, Augusta, GA, 2018
SC Statehouse, Enjoy SC, Columbia, SC, 2018
Berry Fleming Book Festival, Augusta, GA, 2017
College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 2013-2016
Decatur Book Festival, Decatur, GA 2016
Southern Fried Poetry Festival, Greenville, SC 2015
Mics Wide Open, Wilmington, NC, 2014
Community Service & Literary Curation
Book Reviewer, Free State Review, 2019-2024
Secretary, Augusta Authors, 2021
Board Member, Poetry Society of South Carolina, 2017-2018, 2020-2021
Board Member, Free Verse Festival, 2017-2021
President & Co-founder, The Unspoken Word, literary nonprofit, 2013-2017
Co-Founder & Curator, Carolina Poets Reading Series, “Poetry Goes Viral,” 2020
Contribute Your Verse Podcast Host & Co-Creator, 2017-2021
Speakeasy Poetry Series, Curator & Host, 2016-2019
Short Fiction Reader, IDK Magazine, 2017
Holy City Poetry Slam, Slam Master & Host, 2015-2016
Editing Experience
Senior Poetry Editor, Free Verse Press, 2020-2021
Poetry Editor, Emrys Journal, 2020
Freelance Editor & Creative Consultant, Contribute Your Verse, 2019-2021
Editor, Good Juju Review: Charleston Poetry Anthology, 2017=
Teaching Experience
“Ten Lessons from a Creative Career,” Keynote Speaker, Ink Student Writer Conference at University of South Carolina, 2023
“Publishing Strategy,” Workshop, All Good Books, 2023
“Queer Form,” Workshop, All Good Books, 2023
“Poetry Roundtable,” South Carolina Writers Association Virtual Conference, 2022
“Tarot-Dactyls: A Free Zine Workshop,” Sarabande Books, 2022
“Deep Roots: Generational Connections to the Past, North Carolina Humanities and South Carolina Center for the Book, 2021
“Poetry As Superpower,” Workshop, Pat Conroy Literary Festival, 2021
“Poetry Meets Art” High School Workshop Series, Poets in Schools, 2021
“Docu-Poetry: Where Poetry Meets Journalism,” High School Workshop Series, Poets in Schools, 2021
Writer-In-Residence at East Aiken School of the Arts, 2018-2019
Free Verse Poetry Youth Workshops, 2017-2019
The Peace Center, Peace Poets Poetry Workshop Series Leader: Greenville, SC 2018
“The Ecstatic Tradition” Workshop, SCWA Lowcountry Writing Conference, Charleston, SC 2017
“Storytelling Off the Page,” Panel Discussion, Deckle Edge Literary Festival, 2018
“Poetry & Social Media,” Panel Discussion, Augusta University Writer’s Weekend, 2018
Whiskey Writers Writing Workshop Series, 2017-2019
“Building Literary Communities & Careers,” Cre8 Conference, 2018
Lyrics & Songwriting Instructor, SMAART Camp, 2016
Holy City Youth Poetry Slam, Slam Instructor, 2014-2016