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 Ladies’ Abecedary

from Harbor Editions (Small Harbor Publishing)

Finalist: 2020 Kallisto Gaia Contemporary Chapbook Contest and 2019 Cow Creek Chapbook Contest

Semi-Finalist: 2020 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest and 2018 CutBank Chapbook Contest

 

 Journal and Magazine Publications (Since January 2015, [F] = “Forthcoming”):

·      Barrow Street, Summer 2021 Issue: “Some Measure of Comfort”

·      Rogue Agent, Issue 74 – May 2021: “Bearing”

·      Cagibi, Issue 13 – Spring 2021: “[In Berlin:]”, [In Paris:]”, “[In Philadelphia:]”, “[In Santa Fe:]”

·      SWWIM Every Day, Daily Feature, March 31, 2021: “Pantoum [Procedure]”

·      Epiphany Magazine, Online Feature Added to Digital Journal in March 2021: “Far Gone”, X-Ray”

·      Zone 3, Vol. 35, Number 2 – Fall 2020: “The tall one”

·      Cream City Review, Issue 44.1 – Spring / Summer 2020: “The poor thing”, “The birthday girl”

·      Underwater New York, 10th Anniversary Issue, 2019: “guarding/Life” (Three Poem Series)

·      Harvard Review, Issue 53 – 2019: “Today I sift through my dad’s worldly possessions.”

·      Indiana Review, Issue 41.1 – Summer 2019: “Little she”

·      The Lifted Brow, Issue 41 – Spring 2019: “Gifts”

·      Cagibi, Issue 3 – July 2018: “The First Sunday After Thanksgiving” (Nominee: Best of the Net)

·      The Offing, Featured Poem for May 2018: “Remaining Evidence”

·      No, Dear, Issue 21 – Spring 2018: “(Hyper)cycling”

·      Permafrost Magazine, Issue 40.1 – Winter 2018: “At My Therapist”

·      River Styx, Issue 99 – Fall 2017: “Breasts”

·      Spillway, Issue 25 – Summer 2017: “Missing the Mark”

·      Little Patuxent Review, Summer 2017 Issue: “Prospect Park in 10 Speeds”

·      REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters, Spring / Summer 2017 Issue: “Unsettle / Dissolve”

·      Sycamore Review, Issue 28.2 – Spring 2017: “Upon Re-Entry”

·      Washington Square Review, Issue 39 – Spring 2017: “Healer”

·      RHINO Poetry, RHINO 2017 (Published Spring 2017): “Cake”

·      Barrow Street, Winter 2016-2017 Issue: “On One Shoulder”

·      The Missouri Review, Poem of the Week – December 12-19, 2016: “Middle”

·      Prelude, Issue 3 – 2017 (Published Fall 2016): “Again, Winter”

·      The Carolina Quarterly, Issue 66.1 – Fall 2016: “Today I will clean out his damn car.”

·      Bone Bouquet, Issue 7.2 – Fall 2016: “Caught it just right”, “The last time on this trail”

·      American Life in Poetry (A Project of The Poetry Foundation) – Featured Poem, Week of May 30, 2016 (Column 584): “Offering” (Selected by Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser)

·      AMP (Literary Magazine of Hofstra University), Inaugural Issue – Spring 2016: “Funeral Guests”

·      Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Volume 2, Issue 3 – Fall 2015: “Two Girls”

·      Sixth Finch, Fall 2015: “Fortune”

·      The Delmarva Review, Vol. 8 – 2015: “To Anxiety”, “Wake”, “The Relative Valence of Language”

·      Free State Review, Issue 6 – Summer / Fall 2015: “Dis-ease”, “Kitchen Counter Prelude, 10:00 p.m.”, “Observation Inversion”

·      Elemental Poetry for the Masses (Anthology, Published June 2015 by Parrish Picnic in Conjunction with Emotive Fruition and WNYC’s Radiolab): “Robert Oppenheimer Goes on a College Date”

·      AGNI Online, Featured Poem for June 2015: “Offering”

·      Underwater New York, Online Feature Added to Digital Journal in June 2015: “Cages”

·      Rattle, Issue 48 – Summer 2015: “Miss Jacklyn Analyzes Love”

·      Bodega Magazine, Issue 29 – January 2015: “Eulogy Following A Triple Homicide”

Anthologies:

Dead of Winter (Forthcoming 2021, Milk & Cake Press): “The tall one”

2019 Brownstone Poets Anthology (2019, Brownstone Poets): “Wake”

Live Readings (Since January 2015):

·      Underwater New York 10th Anniversary Event (Sponsored by Poets & Writers and the New York Foundation for the Arts): Featured Reader, 11/2019 – Magick City, Brooklyn NY

·      Bloom Readings (Sponsored by Poets & Writers): Invited Reader, 4/2019 – Hudson View Gardens, New York, NY

·      Brownstone Poets: Invited Reader, 9/2018 – Park Plaza Restaurant, Brooklyn NY

·      Why There Are Words (NYC Edition): Selected Reader, 7/2018 – Bowery Poetry, New York NY

·      No, Dear Issue 21 Launch: Featured Reader, 5/2018 – La Sala, Brooklyn NY

·      Epiphany Readers Read: Curator, MC, Featured Reader, 4/2018 – Matt Torrey’s, Brooklyn NY

·      Garden Variety Poetry Series: Invited Reader, 7/2017 – 6&B Garden, New York NY

·      New York City Poetry Festival: Curator and MC for Epiphany, 7/2017 – Governors Island, NY

·      RHINO Reads! AWP Conference Event: Selected Reader, 3/2017 – Sixth Engine, Washington DC

·      RHINO Poetry’s 40 Readings in 40 Cities, NYC Edition: Guest Curator, MC, Featured Reader, 11/2016 – KGB, New York NY

·      Prelude Issue 3 Launch: Featured Reader, 11/2016 – Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Brooklyn NY

·      The Delmarva Review Vol. 8 Launch: Featured Reader, 1/2016 – The Writer’s Center, Bethesda MD

·      Lamprophonic Emerging Writers Series: Selected Reader, 11/2015 – Bar Thalia, New York NY

·      No, Dear – “Poets Who Love Poets” 3: Invited Reader, 9/2015 – Over the Eight, Brooklyn NY

·      Sang for Nothing: Selected Reader, 7/2015 – Legion, Brooklyn NY

·      New York City Poetry Festival: Invited Reader for Bodega Magazine, 7/2015 – Governors Island, NY

·      Rattle Issue 48 Event – “Tribute to New Yorkers”: Featured Reader, 7/2015 – KGB, New York NY

·      Rattle Reading Series: Featured Reader, 6/2015 – La Canada Flintridge Bookstore, Los Angeles CA

·      Shangri-La Art Show: Invited Reader, 6/2015 – The Factory, Long Island City (Queens) NY

·      The Disagreement, a Curated Reading Series: Selected Reader, 6/2015 – HiFi, New York NY

Other Work and Special Events:

Emotive Fruition: Poems Selected for Theatrical Performance

·      Let Lightning Set Us on Fire (Valentine’s Day Special), 2/2020 – Caveat, New York NY: “Breasts” (Performed by Jennifer Sanchez)

·      Heartbreaker / Verse Maker (Valentine’s Day Special), 2/2019 – Caveat, New York NY: “Armistice” and “Remaining Evidence” (Performed by Michael Crane and Teresa Avia Lim)

·      Elemental Poetry for the Masses (in Partnership with WNYC's Radiolab), 6/2015 – Botanic Lab, New York NY and The Bell House, Brooklyn NY: "Robert Oppenheimer Goes on a College Date" (Performed by Lameece Issaq)

·      National Poetry Month Special, 4/2015 – Botanic Lab, New York NY: "Kitchen Counter Prelude, 10:00 p.m.", "Offering", "X-Ray" (Performed by Pearl Sun and Helene York)

·      Letters to the Hearts I've Broken (Valentine’s Day Special), 2/2015 – Botanic Lab, New York NY: "Missing the Mark" (Performed by Joniece Abbott-Pratt)

 

Epiphany Magazine

Forthcoming in Epiphany Magazine’s Online Feature Column Music For Desks: “I’ll Lay Down the Highway: (Virtual) Travels with Joni”

 

Under a Warm Green Linden

Online Feature Added to Digital Journal in April 2021: Book Review – A Brief History of Burning by Cait O’Kane (Belladonna* Collaborative, 2020)

 

Tinderbox Poetry Journal

Volume 6, Issue 5 – Fall 2020: “Catching Up with Arden Levine” (Author Profile and Micro-Reviews)

 

Bodega Magazine

Issue 80 – April 2019: Guest Editor for National Poetry Month Special Issue

 

The Adirondack Review

Winter 2018: Interview with Thomas Dooley, Author of Trespass (HarperCollins, 2014)

Manuscripts:

Full-Length Manuscript

In Halves, In Quarters (Sought Publication from Spring 2016 through 2017)

·      Semi-Finalist: 2017 Word Works Open Reading Period

·      Finalist: 2016 1913 Prize for First Books, 1913 Press

·      Semi-Finalist: 2016 Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry, Austin Peay State University

 

Chapbook Manuscript

Stacked Up Around This Vacancy (Seeking Publication as of Winter 2019)

·      Semi-Finalist: 2020 and 2019 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest

·      Semi-Finalist: 2020 Verse / Tomaz Salamun Prize

·      Finalist: 2020 Kallisto Gaia Contemporary Chapbook Contest

·      Finalist: 2019 Yemassee Chapbook Contest

·      Semi-Finalist: 2019 Frost Place Chapbook Competition, Bull City Press

Master Classes:

The Unterberg Center at 92Y – Emily Fragos

Poets House – Edward Hirsch, Heather McHugh, Robert Pinksy; Philip Schultz; Susan Wheeler

Service:

Beloit Poetry Journal: Foundation Board Member: July 2019 to Present

Epiphany, A Literary Journal:

·      Advisory Editor: January 2018 to January 2019

·      Assistant Editor – Poetry: January 2017 to January 2018

·      Poetry Reader and Chapbook Reader: March 2015 to January 2017

 

Brooklyn Eagles (Members Advisory Board of the Brooklyn Public Library):

·      Chair of Communications Committee, January 2015 to January 2017

·      General Member, January 2014 to January 2015, January 2017 to Present

Education:

New York University Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service: New York, NY

Master of Public Administration: Public and Nonprofit Management

(Public Service Scholarship Recipient in 2003-04 and 2004-05; Rudin Family Foundation Scholarship Recipient in 2005-06; Robert Berne Leadership Award Recipient at Graduation)

 

Connecticut College: New London, CT

Bachelor of Arts: Sociology / Gender Studies

(Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Recipient of Department Awards in Both Majors)