POEMS

My poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets 2011, Gettysburg Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Indiana Review and elsewhere. My manuscript Girl-King has been a finalist for the 2011 Yale Younger Poets Prize and the 2011 National Poetry Series, among others.

I received my MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I was the founding editor-in-chief of Devil's Lake. I was a finalist for the 2011 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and my awards include scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the David and Jean Milofsky Prize in Creative Writing, and both a Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship and a Chancellor's Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where I am a first year PhD candidate and the book review editor for Cream City Review. I currently serve as Bull City Press' associate editor.