Artistic Resume

Book Publication:

• Wild Horses, a runner-up for the 2017 Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook Contest, published by Main Street Rag in May 2018

Journal Publications:

• Tar River Poetry, Vol. 57, No. 2, Spring 2018: “Learned At Last Night’s Lecture On Dementia”
• Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 21, No. 1 and 2, 2017: “What Passes Through This World Cries”

• Cold Mountain Review, Vol. 45, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2017: “Twenty-First Century Pastoral” and “When I Look at Radiance”

• San Pedro River Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 2017: “To a Friend, with Gratitude”
• Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Vol. 60, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2017: “Days Like These” and “First Birthday Alone”
• The Greensboro Review, No. 100, Fall 2016: “Summer Vacation”
• Atlanta Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2016: “Break on Through—Ray Manzarek Speaks”
• Tar River Poetry, Vol. 55, No. 2, Spring 2016: “Even Now” and “Truckload of Jesuses”
• Kentucky Review, on-line, January 2015: “Are They Boulders,” “At Stouchsburg Cemetery,” “Country Man,” “Driving My Aunt Back from the Nursing Home Where We Visited Her Sister,” “Photograph: Burlap #2,” and “Visiting Her Sister at the Nursing Home”
• San Pedro River Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2015: “What to Do with a Father”
• The Sow’s Ear, Vol. 22, No. 4, Winter 2013: “Hunger”
• Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, Summer/Fall 2012: “Rehrersburg, Pennsylvania, 1857”
• Atlanta Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2012: “A Love Poem for My Muse” and “Joy”

Anthology Publications:

• Kakalak 2017 (Main Street Rag, 2017): “For Her” and “Questions I Should Have Asked At My Thirty-fifth High School Reunion”
• The Book of Donuts (Terrapin Books, 2017): “What Shaped You”

• Kakalak 2016 (Main Street Rag, 2016): “Snow and the Memory of Snow”
• Kentucky Review 2015 (Future Cycle Press, 2015): “Are They Boulders,” “At Stouchsburg Cemetery,” “Country Man,” “Driving My Aunt Back from the Nursing Home Where We Visited Her Sister,” “Photograph: Burlap #2,” and “Visiting Her Sister at the Nursing Home”
• Kakalak 2015 (Main Street Rag, 2015): “Dear Aunt Sue”
• Creatures of Habitat (Main Street Rag, 2015): “So Much”
• The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume VII: North Carolina (Texas Review Press, 2014): “Hunger” and “Joy”
• Kakalak 2014 (Main Street Rag, 2014): “Pompeii Fairy Tale”
• Forgetting Home: Poems About Alzheimers (Barefoot Muse Press, 2013): “Hunger”

Journals and anthologies in which poems are forthcoming:

• Spillway: “Seventh Grade”
• Quill’s Edge Press, for the anthology 50/50: Poems & Translations by Women over 50: “How Fathers Leave” and “Remorse”

Poetry in Plain Sight:

A program which displays poster-sized poems in downtown Winston-Salem business windows

• September 2016: “At the Sugar Shack, Carolina Beach, 1969”

Grants and Awards:

• 2018: Recipient of the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series student poet mentorship from the North Carolina Poetry Society

• 2017-18: Recipient of an Artist Project Grant from the Orange County Arts Commission
• 2016-17: Recipient of an Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Grant from the Durham Arts Council
• 2015: “What to Do with a Father” nominated for the Pushcart Prize by San Pedro River Review

Readings and Lectures:

• April 2018: Reading with Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Beth Copeland and fellow Gilbert-Chappell student poets Terri Greco and Camryn Massey at the Chapel Hill Library

• March 2018: Reading with Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Beth Copeland and fellow Gilbert-Chappell student poet Terri Greco at the Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough

• July 2017: Featured poet at the Visions International Reading Series at Aversboro Coffee in Garner NC

• February 2017: Featured poet at the Memory Cafe held at the Passmore Center in Hillsborough for adults with memory issues and their caregivers

• October 2016: Peace of Mind: a Poetry Lecture at the Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough

• April 2016: Featured poet at Carrboro’s Poetry on Your Plate

• October 2014: Featured poet at Carrboro’s West End Poetry Festival

Events Funded by a 2017-18 OCAC Artist Project Grant:

• Poetry Readings

February 2018: Black History, Black Futures, featuring Howard Craft, Fred Joiner, Crystal Simone Smith, and Gideon Young

October 2017: Poets on Family, featuring J.S. Absher, Terri Kirby Erickson, Jan Harrington, and Tsitsi Jaji

• Writing Workshops

March 2018: Journeys, Real and Metaphorical, Orange County Passmore and Seymour Senior Centers

February 2018: Skin!, Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough

October 2017: Writing About Family, Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough

• Lecture

March 2018: Poetry as a Friend on Life’s Journey, Orange County Passmore and Seymour Senior Centers

Volunteer Work in the Arts:

• Co-organizer and co-host since January 2014 of the Second Thursday Poetry Reading at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill

• Organizer and host of the following poetry readings held at the Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough and other venues, featuring distinguished local and regional poets:

October 2017: Reception and reading at Flyleaf Books to honor the life’s work of esteemed North Carolina poet Betty Adcock and to celebrate the release of Rough Fugue

February 2017: Poetry of Witness, featuring William Blackley, L. Teresa Church,

Maura High, and Earl Huband

October 2016: An Evening of Accessible Poetry, featuring Joseph Millar, Florence Nash, Mark Smith-Soto, and Priscilla Webster-Williams

March 2016: Poetry and Personal Identity, featuring Al Maginnes, Maria Rouphial, Andrea Selch, and Crystal Simone Smith

February 2016: Poetry and Race, featuring Jaki Shelton Green, Joseph Mills, NC Poet Laureate Shelby Stephenson, and L. Lamar Wilson

April 2015: An Evening of Local Poetry, featuring Aaron Belz, Jaki Shelton Green, Celisa Steele, and Crystal Simone Smith

• June 2016, Chapel Hill Library: Organizer and host of Remembrance: an Evening of African-American Poetry, to honor the Charleston, South Carolina parishioners murdered during a Bible study meeting on June 17, 2015. Featured poets: L. Teresa Church, Jaki Shelton Green, Sheila Smith McKoy, and Gideon Young

• Organizer and instructor for the following writing workshops held at the Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough:

April 2018: Writing from the Rope Bridge

January 2018: Love and Romance

May 2017: Wrestling the Four-Tongued Beast: Revision and Imagery

February 2017: Writing Poems of Witness

October 2016: Revising Toward Clarity, Energy, and Elegance

April 2016: Poetry and Personal Identity

February 2016: Writing About Race

July 2015: Heroes, Heroines, and Heartthrobs

April 2015: Getting Honest and Yet More Honest

• 2014-15: Co-writer and co-facilitator of two writing support groups for women survivors of domestic violence, funded by a grant from the Orange County Arts Commission and held at the Compass Center for Women and Families in Chapel Hill. A journal of survivors’ work, The War Against the Mirror: Reflections on Domestic Violence, was produced with funds from the grant