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• Bermuda Ferris Wheel | 42 Miles Press | Indiana U. Poetry Award Winner​

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Select Awards/Publications

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    Screenwriting​​

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• MEADERVILLE (TV Pilot) - crime dramedy, thriller

• Austin Film Festival, AMC TV Pilot Award winner

  • Coverfly Top 20 Dramas of the Year​

  • Coverfly Top 50 Thrillers of the Year

  • NBC TV Writers' Program, Top 10 finalist

  • Outstanding Screenplays, runner up

  • The Script Lab, finalist

  • Austin Film Festival, One-Hour TV Drama Award, semi-finalist, Top 20

  • Austin Film Festival, Warner Bros. Pilot Award, semi-finalist, Top 20

  • ScreenCraft TV Fellowship, semi-finalist

  • Titan Awards, Industrial Scripts, quarterfinalist, Top 10

  • Stage 32 TV Drama Contest, semi-finalist

  • Writers X Writers, semifinalist

  • Big Apple Film Festival, semi-finalist and honorable mention

  • Tracking Board Launch Pad, second rounder

  • Logline available on Coverfly
     

• RIVER RATS (TV Pilot) - crime drama, coming of age

• Roadmap Writers' Jumpstart winner

  • Austin Film Festival, AMC TV Pilot Award, Top 20

  • Coverfly Top 20 Dramas of the Year

  • NBC TV Writers' Program, Top 10 finalist

  • ScreenCraft Fellowship, finalist, Top 25

  • Austin Film Festival, One-Hour Drama Award, semi-finalist, Top 20

  • Writers X Writers, semifinalist

  • Tracking Board Launch Pad, second rounder

  • Logline available on Coverfly
     

• IMAGINARY FRIENDS (TV Pilot) - adult animation, dark comedy

• NBC TV Writers' Program, Top 10 finalist

  • Big Apple Film Festival, finalist

  • Austin Film Festival, second rounder

  • WeScreenplay TV Lab, quarterfinalist

  • ScreenCraft TV Pilot, quarterfinalist

  • ScreenCraft Animation, quarterfinalist

  • Logline available on Coverfly
     

• THE MINOR GODS OF WEST VIRGINIA  (TV Pilot) - crime dramedy

  • NBC TV Writers' Program, Top 10 finalist 

  • ScreenCraft TV Writing Fellowship, quarterfinalist

  • Stage 32 TV Writing Contest, quarterfinalist

  • Logline available on Coverfly

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    Poetry

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• "Thank You, Forgiveness." Best New Poets, reshared by @poetryisnotaluxury

• "After Running into My Student at Therapy." Southeast Review

• "The Writers' Bench in Gapped Couplets." The Common

• "Life Outside the Dream Box." Saranac Review

• "Keep Your Plastic Flowers, I'm Not Dead Yet." The Missouri Review

• "Hepburn Manor, Los Angeles." The Missouri Review *Miller Audio Prize finalist

  • The above poem is read to music and featured on a short podcast

• "Microwaving Sub Sandwiches in the Trailer." The Missouri Review and Best New Poets (2021) *Selected by Kaveh Akbar

• "Atmosphere in Our Bullshit Little Town." The Normal School *Selected for A Flame Called Indiana: An Anthology of Contemporary Hoosier Writing

• "The Good Life." Cimarron Review *Pushcart Prize Nomination

• "The View From Here." the minnesota review

• "Hepburn Manor, Los Angeles." Muzzle Magazine

• "The Perfect Time to Leave One Home for Another." Poet Lore *Pushcart Prize Nomination

• "First Montana, Next Wyoming." The Meadow

• “Morning in West Virginia.” The Fourth River *Selected for New Poetry From the Midwest

• “The Perfect Time to Walk Out of Someone’s Life.” The Sewanee Review 

• “Thank You, Forgiveness.” Best New Poets (2017) *Selected by Natalie Diaz

• "We're Not There Yet." Yemassee

• "In My Little Book of Things I Write Down." Barrow Street

• "After Graffiti, Northside Carbondale." Hot Metal Bridge

• "All That Matters." Nashville Review *Best of the Net Nomination

• "Sixth Grade Autobiography." Hawai'i Pacific Review

• “It Always Does.” Salt Hill *Pushcart Prize Nomination

• “Just Once.” Ninth Letter

• "How Long Has It Been?" The Meadow *Pushcart Prize Nomination

•  “Dirty Dancing Saves The World.” The Laurel Review

• “We Have Problems.” Hobart 

• “Waking Up.” Hobart 

• “The Birthday Gift.” Hobart 

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    Fiction

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• "Payback for Mongoose Charlie.": 1st prize winner of the Big Muddy | Southeastern Missouri State U. Short Story Competition *Pushcart Prize Nomination

• “Stitch.” Permafrost 

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    Hybrid: Creative Writing Meets Professional Writing 

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• "In Doubt." The Laurel Review 

• "Everything is So Sun-Drenched and Awful." The Laurel Review *Pushcart Prize Nomination

• “Broad Ripple, Toxic Masculinity, & The Uber Driver That Asked About the Snow.” The McNeese Review

• “Dear Standard Parts of a Workplace Letter—the hell do you know(?).” The McNeese Review

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    Nonfiction

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• “My Mother Made Popcorn in a Casserole Dish.” Permafrost

• “Hello, Chicago.” Chicago Sun Times​