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)