Publications and Awards

Publications include:

• Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts and Letters (Spring 2010, Volume 1, Issue 1): "An Inch a Year"
• Connecticut Review (Fall 2008, Vol. XXX, No. 2): "Poppy, 1927"
• The Cream City Review (Fall 1998, Vol. 23.1): "Hard Love"
• Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose (Spring 2006): "Antjau, c. 715–525 B.C.E."
• The Fertile Source (April 4, 2011): "Child Who Haunts My Womb"; Interview (June 20, 2011)
• Hey, Listen! (Winter 1998): "Breaking the Established Body," "Expendable," "Lunar Distance"
• The Hopkins Review (Fall 2009, Volume 2, Number 4): "Clippings" sequence (Some Monday Nights, The Morning of My Sister's Wedding, Losses, Years Later My Father Phoned, Hands Trembling Like Music)
• Limestone (2007): "Legacy"
• Miller's Pond (2008, Vol. 11, Issue 1): "Photograph, Summer 1981"
• Mothers and Daughters: A Poetry Celebration (Harmony) (2001): "Consecration"
• New Growth: Recent Kentucky Writings (Jesse Stuart Foundation) (2007): "Relics"
• The New York Quarterly (2008, Number 64): "Running at Daybreak"
• Nimrod International Journal (Spring/Summer 2010, Volume 53, Number 2): "Origins"
• North American Review (September-October 2007, Volume 292, Number 5): "In Search of an Ordinary God"
• Pegasus (2006): "Highway 60, Passing Through Versailles, Kentucky"
• Poemeleon (Summer/Fall 2009, Volume IV, Issue 1): "My Mother's Bras," "St. Joseph's," "To the Men in the Waiting Room of the Breast Diagnostic Center"
• Poet Lore (Fall 2010, Volume 105, Number 3): "Walls/Windows"
• qarrtsiluni (December 9, 2011): "Bandit"
• Southern California Review (Spring 2009): "Certainty"
• Sweet: A Literary Confection (May 2010, Issue 2.3): "Rain Lore"
• Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature (2010, Issue 15): "Darwin's Dog"
• Tilt-a-Whirl: "Under the microscope"
• Wisconsin Academy Review (Spring 2000, Volume 46, Number 2): "The Majestic"
• Wisconsin Poets' Calendar 1997: "We clutched the rounded corners of her"

Awards include:

• Semi-finalist, 2009 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry (Nimrod International Journal), "Origins"
• 2007 Artist Enrichment Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women
• First place, 2006 Kentucky State Poetry Society Grand Prix Contest, "Highway 60, Passing Through Versailles, Kentucky"
• First place, 1998 UWM Women's Studies Research Paper and Project Contest, "Child Who Haunts My Womb"