Selected for Best New Poets 2025

Selected for third prize in the Red Wheelbarrow Prize by Stephen Kuusisto who said, “‘Once Opened’ is a poem about consciousness with a touch of William Blake in the best way—this is sweet, urgent, dark, and wholly original.” 

Reading with Mark Doty and Diane Seuss at Poets Corner Maine, recording available here

Winner of the 2025 New Ohio Review Poetry Contest for “Ways to Wear It” selected by Ted Kooser, forthcoming in NOR 36.

Awarded a 2026 Pushcart Prize for
“Late Spring Epiphany
After the Georgia O’Keeffe Exhibit”
published at The Adroit Journal