Awards & Nominations
"For the Love of Hot Mustard" was nominated for Best of the Net by Dishsoap Quarterly
"We Built a Porch" was nominated for Best of the Net by Orange Rose Literary Magazine
“You Can Rehome a Cat but Not a Kid” was the runner-up for Hippocampus Magazine’s We Love Short Shorts Summer Contest (2026).
“Sunshine Daydream” was longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50 (2025) after being named a finalist in Defenestrationism’s Flash Suite Contest.
“Excerpts from My Zombie Diary” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by the editor of Trash Cat Lit
“Adrift” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by the editor of Flash the Court
“We are a family of stuffed animals…” was named a finalist in the WOW Contest after publication in Masque & Spectacle (9/25).
“Snails are People Too” was nominated for Best Microfiction by the editor of Fictive Dream
“I Should Write the Letter” was nominated for Best of the Net by the editor of Raw Lit
“Not Finished Yet” (memoir) was named a finalist for the BookLife Prize for Nonfiction (2025).
“The View from the Window in Mauthausen” was a finalist in Apple in the Dark’s Flash Contest
Fiction
"The Hush", Reckon Review (coming soon)
"Safe Enough", Cowboy Jamboree
"If Mother's Grief Had Been a Dog", Thin Skin Magazine
“I Met God in a Bookstore”, Blood + Honey
“The Bear Who Loved Me”, Doric Lit
“Unerasable”, Flash Flood
“When We Were Giants”, Waffle Fried
“Home is Not a Place”, Root Smoke
“Divorce in a Minor Key”, Literary Garage
“How to Manage Anger in Four Drafts”, SoFloPoJo
“Ghost Writer”, Sky Island
“My Bridesmaids Wear Pink”, Written Tales Mag
“The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever Died Today”, Underbelly Press
“You are Here”, Frazzled Lit
Creative Nonfiction
"The Wrong Song", Sweet Lit (coming soon)
"Oh the Places I'll Virtually Go", Emerge Literary Journal
“I tell My Therapist It’s Nothing It’s Ancient History But I Remember Every Detail”, Bulb Region
“How to Make Peace with Your Dead Cousin When Sorry Isn’t Enough”, Hollow and Sky
“Beast of Burden”, Pithead Chapel
“For the Love of Hot Mustard”, Dishsoap Quarterly
"We Don't Talk", Cleaver Magazine and SugarSugarSalt
"Counting to Eight and Other Childhood Games", Anti-Heroin Chic
"Charles My Hero, I Hope I Never See Your Face Again", The Ravens Perch
"My Jellyfish Journey Through Mental Illness”, The Shallot (print 2025) and online in Rind and Root
“All My Love Monitored and Recorded”, Mom Egg Review
“We Had Tea”, January House
“Saving Christmas”, Eunoia Review 1/24 and Mythic Picnic
“Goodbyes are Often Hard to Swallow”, Argyle Lit
“The Drift from Good to Bye”, 149 Review
“If You Can Tell It, You Can Write It”, Brevity Blog
Poetry & Hybrid
“The Space Between Us: An Introvert’s Words to the World”, Cool Beans Lit
“Rebirth”, Bright Flash Literary
“When the Sun Stops Posting Pics”, La Rotonde DISSOLUTION Anthology
"Wonder Lust”, Coalitionist
“Nine Perfect Days I Hope You Remember Too”, Wildscape
“It’s More Than Cats and Rainbows and Waning Moons”, The Leafline Magazine