SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Collections:
Raft of Days, Gunpowder Press, 2017
Instead of Sadness, winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, Gunpowder Press, 2015
All the While, Chapbook, Finishing Line Press, 2006
Journals and Anthologies:
"Woman with Fish in Her Hair," Levan Humanities Review, 2016
"Something to Fill" : The Cresset, 2015
"Our Lady of Betwixt" : Cider Press Review, 2015
"South of Cayucos," "Polaris," "January Villanelle" : Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, 2014
"Anniversary" : String Poet, 2014
"Couch on the Beach," "Beach Bone," "October, Ellensburg" : Tar River Poetry, 2013
"Safe" : originally published in All the While, reprinted in The Heart of All that Is: Reflections on Home, Holy Cow! Press, 2013
"How to Begin" : Oberon, 2012
"Northbound in a Dream" : YARN (Young Adult Review Network), 2012
"An Algebra of Fifty," "Another Country" : The Southern Review, 2009
"Dazzled and Undone" : Canary, 2008
"Guilty of Dust" : Rock and Sling, 2006
"Any Day's Light," "Dear Mr. Yeats," "True and Useful," and "Easy" : The Christian Century, 2006, 2003, 2002
"Stems," "Names," and "Appetite" : Into the Teeth of the Wind, 2001
Raft of Days, Gunpowder Press, 2017
Instead of Sadness, winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, Gunpowder Press, 2015
All the While, Chapbook, Finishing Line Press, 2006
Journals and Anthologies:
"Woman with Fish in Her Hair," Levan Humanities Review, 2016
"Something to Fill" : The Cresset, 2015
"Our Lady of Betwixt" : Cider Press Review, 2015
"South of Cayucos," "Polaris," "January Villanelle" : Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, 2014
"Anniversary" : String Poet, 2014
"Couch on the Beach," "Beach Bone," "October, Ellensburg" : Tar River Poetry, 2013
"Safe" : originally published in All the While, reprinted in The Heart of All that Is: Reflections on Home, Holy Cow! Press, 2013
"How to Begin" : Oberon, 2012
"Northbound in a Dream" : YARN (Young Adult Review Network), 2012
"An Algebra of Fifty," "Another Country" : The Southern Review, 2009
"Dazzled and Undone" : Canary, 2008
"Guilty of Dust" : Rock and Sling, 2006
"Any Day's Light," "Dear Mr. Yeats," "True and Useful," and "Easy" : The Christian Century, 2006, 2003, 2002
"Stems," "Names," and "Appetite" : Into the Teeth of the Wind, 2001
HONORS - Writing and Teaching
Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, Gunpowder Press, for Instead of Sadness (Dan Gerber, judge), 2015
String Poet Contest, Finalist (David Yezzi, judge), 2014
Summer Literary Seminar Unified Contest, Poetry Finalist (Tony Hoagland, judge), 2012
Verse Daily Feature, "An Algebra of Fifty," 2010
Faculty Member of the Year, Porterville College, 2009
New Women's Voices Chapbook Contest, Finishing Line Press, Finalist, 2006
Magazine Merit Award in Fiction, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, 2003
Santa Barbara Arts Fund Individual Artist Award in Poetry, Honorable Mention, 2000
String Poet Contest, Finalist (David Yezzi, judge), 2014
Summer Literary Seminar Unified Contest, Poetry Finalist (Tony Hoagland, judge), 2012
Verse Daily Feature, "An Algebra of Fifty," 2010
Faculty Member of the Year, Porterville College, 2009
New Women's Voices Chapbook Contest, Finishing Line Press, Finalist, 2006
Magazine Merit Award in Fiction, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, 2003
Santa Barbara Arts Fund Individual Artist Award in Poetry, Honorable Mention, 2000
