Published Work

AWARDS & HONORS

POETRY

“By Degrees” Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, 2023

“A Prayer: On Synthetic Snowflakes” Ekstasis Magazine, March 2023

“My Daughter Asks for a Pomegranate” Fare Forward 2022* 

An Initiation to Ash WednesdayEkstasis Magazine, March 2022

“Walk to Emmaus” Vita Poetica, Spring 2021

“Respite Walk” Anglican Theological Review, Winter 2021, Vol. 103, Number 1

“Accumulated Lessons in Displacement” The Baltimore Review, Maryland Writers issue, October 2019

“Disaster Chaplaincy” The Windhover, February 2019

“The Exile Speaks of Mountains” Little Patuxent Review, Summer 2018**

“It Wasn’t Odd” “Just Before” Relief – A Journal of Art and Faith, Summer 2018

“Hospitality” “Birth of the Girl-Child” “Remnants of Empire” Pen in Hand, 2017***

“Everything Is a Departure” Bloodstone Review, Issue #1, May 2015

“Cameo” St. Katherine Review, Volume 4, Number 3, 2014

“The Truth About the River” Welter, Fall 2014

“Chengdu Pastoral” Gulf Stream Magazine, May 2013

“The Coveted Gift” Off the Coast, May 2013

“Speak Like Rain” Tiger’s Eye Journal, Summer 2013

“Cicadas, East of Eden” The Penwood Review, Fall 2011

“God’s Sermon at the Eucharist” Time of Singing, Spring 2010

*Third place winner, Fare Forward Poetry Contest 2022

**”The Exile Speaks of Mountains” was chosen as Runner-Up in the Enoch Pratt Library’s 2018 Poetry Contest for Maryland residents. Watch me read this poem and two others at LPR’s summer issue launch event; or, listen to me read this poem and four others at the Enoch Pratt Library 2018 Poetry Contest celebration event (click the link above and scroll down to listen to or download the podcast; I’m the first reader, but I hope you have time to listen to the other amazing poets who also read their work).

***”Birth of the Girl-Child” won second place in the Maryland Writers Association’s Annual Poetry Competition 2016.

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