Recognitions and Activities:

Virginia Poetry Society annual contests: two First Place poetry prizes, one Third Place poetry prize

Minnesota Great River Shakespeare Festival: Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest: Laureates' Choice Prize

Best Microfiction Nomination, Monarch Queer Literary Awards Nomination

Fish Publishing's International Lockdown Prize for Haiku/ Senryu: Second Place

Patricia Dobler Poetry Award Finalist

Glimmer Train Short Story Prize Finalist

Sunspot Literary Journal's Culmination Contest Semi-finalist (my work was also short-listed in a Sunspot fiction competition)

Glenwood Clark Fiction Prize: First Place

Jacob von Kutzleben Fiction Contest: First Place

Haunted Waters Press Short Shorts Competition: Honorable Mention

Potomac Conservancy River Haiku Contest Finalist

Oprelle "Matter" Poetry Contest Finalist

Digital Writing Retreats: Sundress Academy for the Arts, Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (through Poet-Author Fellowship)

My creative writing is published in/by:

The Poetry Virginia Review; Ecological Citizen; Rough Cut Press; Fish Publishing; Rattapallax; Heron Tree Poetry Journal; the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council; Bowery Poetry; Short Édition; Geez Magazine, Corporeal Literary Magazine; Rogue Agent Journal through Sundress Publications; The Washington Writers' Publishing House; New Words Press;Querencia Press; One Poem Only (podcast); Deep Wild Journal; Humana Obscura; Streetlight Magazine; Stanchion Zine; Kernel Magazine, Sunday Mornings at the River; Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review; Kelp Journal; Purple Ink Press (upcoming); The William and Mary Review; The Compassion Anthology; Whurk Magazine; Ledbury Poetry Festival; Mala Leche; Contemporary American Voices; The Journal of Wild Culture; Blueline Literary Magazine; the exhibition and book, Open to Interpretation, from Liberty Town Arts; the Ekphrastic Exhibition at The Arts Center in Orange, Virginia; Sparked Literary Magazine; "We Are Here," a collaborative poetry project with Virginia Poet Laureate, Luisa A. Igloria, as well as her Poetry Postcard Project; The Poet's Domain; Audubon Alaska; The Mindful Birding Network; Budding Light Press, Echo World Magazine; Postcard Poems and Prose Magazine; Butter Press; Sky Island Journal; Disquiet Arts, wildscape. literary journal;
Kudzu Literary Magazine; The Good Men Project; Minnesota Great River Shakespeare Festival; The Big Windows Review; Vagabond City; The Eclectic Literary Magazine; The Gallery; The Escarp Review; tenderness lit; Healing Forest; Local Gems Press/ NOVA Bards; the “Million-line Poem,” from Tupelo Press; and the creative social justice groups, Racket and Period Piece.

My work is included in the Virginia Poets Database.

I have written essays and other nonfiction for OnBeing from APR; The Mindfulness Bell, a publication of Plum Village with Thich Nhat Hanh; Tricycle Magazine; Sharon Salzberg’s meditation blog; The Yoga and Body Image Coalition; Yoga Basics; and other publications.