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POETRY
  • The Cortland Review: "The Air Tonight" (forthcoming)
  • The Adroit Journal: "Again, the Magnolias" and "Future Tense" (Fall 2024)
  • The Common: "Sodomite" (Summer 2021)
  • The Cortland Review: "Mise en Abyme" (Spring 2021)
  • The Carolina Quarterly: "Intrusion" (Fall 2020)
  • Hobart: "There was an Entire Chicken" (Fall 2020)
  • Tupelo Quarterly: "Portrait in a Jewelry Box" and "The Dwelling Place (or, Scoring the Death of the Firstborn)" (Spring 2018)
  • Figure 1: "Inheritance" and "Dislocated Cities" (Fall 2018)
  • Denver Quarterly: "Ancestry" (Spring 2017)
  • New South: "Historic Stair" (Spring 2017)
  • The Shallow Ends: "Historic Stare" (Summer 2017)
  • Foundry Journal: "The Houses of Frankfurt" (Winter 2016)
  • Tinderbox Poetry Journal: "Terra Vita" (Fall 2016)
  • Vinyl Poetry and Prose: "Dream of My Father's Shiva, Atlantis, 1450/3074" (Summer 2016)
  • Cosmonauts Avenue: "Failed Sonnet in America" (Summer 2016)
  • LAMBDA Literary: "Lethargy" (Spring 2016)
  • Leveler: "Dream of My Father's Shiva, Auschwitz, 1942" (Spring 2016)
  • Prodigal: "Pastoral" (Spring 2016)
  • Word Riot: "Dream of My Father's Shiva, Lake Michigan, 1963" and "Dream of My Father's Shiva, McCoy Park, 1976" (Fall 2015)
  • Cosmonauts Avenue: "Mahler's Ninth" and "The Space between Trees" (Summer 2015)
  • 236 Magazine: "Afterfeast" (reprint) and "Moon Child" (reprint) (Summer 2015)
  • Poets on Growth: "Horseshoe", "In Response to Trees", "Epithalamium" (reprint), "Litany" (reprint), "Vigil" (reprint) (Summer 2015)
  • The Adroit Journal: "Variation on Testimony" and "In Response to Trees" (Summer 2015)
  • The Literary Review: "Reaction Wood" (Winter 2015)
  • The Paris-American: "The Lyrebird" (November 2014)
  • THRUSH Poetry Journal: "Vigil" (Fall 2014)
  • [PANK] Magazine: "Kinzie Bridge" (Spring 2014)
  • Slice Magazine: "No Sea" and "Beach Fossil Funeral" (Spring/Summer 2014)
  • Anti-: "Theory of Universes" and "Afterfeast" (Spring 2014)
  • Cellpoems: "Gulls, Too" (Spring 2014)
  • The Journal: "Moon Child" (Winter 2014)
  • Hayden's Ferry Review: "Picnic" (Fall/Winter 2013)
  • Nashville Review: "Litany" (Fall 2013)
  • The Cortland Review: "Compression Wood" (Summer 2013)
  • Jewish Currents: "The Hive" (Spring 2013)
  • Redivider: "Egyptian Daydream" and "Arlington" (Spring 2013)
  • 236 Magazine: "Tuesday" (reprint) (Spring 2013)
  • Linebreak: "Epithalamium" (Winter 2013)
  • DMQ Review: "The Senator" (Spring/Summer 2012)
  • Indiana Review: "Tuesday" (Summer 2012)
  • 491 Magazine: "Kiddush Cup" (Summer 2010)

SELECT PROSE
  • heyalma.com: "How Can You Describe Isaac Bashevis Singer Without Saying 'Jewish'?"
  • Poets on Growth: An Anthology of Poetry and Craft: "That Part of Me", Contributing Writer 
  • bustle.com: "8 Reasons Reading Maya Angelou Will Change Your Life" 
  • HFR Blog: "On Stalking the Audacious", Contributor Spotlight 
  • MAKEzine: "Guerrilla Maker Space: An Interview with Emerging Designers" 
  • toridotgov.com: "Miraculous: Making a (list within a) List and Checking it Twice (oh, wait, X-Mas, you're not invited)" 
  • toridotgov.com: "Breasts & the Oscars (or Because I Didn't have Tina Fey's Address, I Sent this to Toridotgov)" 
  • Cold Drank: "Under the Gun: The Voices of Men in a Time of Violence" 
  • toridotgov.com: "Against Irreverence: Grammar in a Time of Apathy" 
  • elephantjournal: "The Death Meditation" 
  • elephantjournal: "Against Irreverence: Unleashing the Wrecking Ball" 

INTERVIEWS​
  • Write the World: Guest judge, Richie Hofmann, on editing book reviews for Kenyon Review
  • Cosmonauts Avenue: Derrick Austin on his debut book, Trouble the Water (BOA Editions, 2016)
  • Cosmonauts Avenue: Maggie Dietz on her second book, That Kind of Happy (University of Chicago Press, 2016)

Fellowships, Honors, Awards

  • Winner, Dorset Prize, Tupelo Press (2019)
  • Finalist, Dorset Prize, Tupelo Press (2018)
  • Finalist, Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize, Dislocated Cities (2018)
  • Finalist, Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize, Speyer​ (2018)
  • Finalist, Berkshire Poetry Prize, Tupelo Press (2017)
  • Runner-Up, Snowbound Chapbook Prize, Speyer (2017)
  • Finalist, Snowbound Chapbook Prize, The Clearing (2017)
  • Semi-Finalist, Crab Orchard Open Poetry Competition (2017)
  • Finalist, Copper Canyon Open Reading Period, Copper Canyon Press (2017)
  • Finalist, Brittingham and Felix Pollack Poetry Prizes, University of Wisconsin Press (2016)
  • Semi-Finalist, Pamet River Prize, YesYes Books (2016)
  • Runner-Up, CutBank Literary Chapbook Contest, CutBank (2016)
  • Winner, Writers' Conferences and Centers Scholarship, AWP (2016)
  • Finalist, Crab Orchard Open Reading Series (2016)
  • Finalist, Cosmonaut's Avenue Poetry Prize, Judge: Claudia Rankine (2016)
  • Semi-Finalist, Brittingham and Felix Pollack Poetry Prizes, University of Wisconsin Press (2015)
  • Semi-Finalist, Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, SIU Press (2015)
  • Finalist, YesYes Books Open Reading Period, YesYes Books (2015)
  • Finalist, "The Space between Trees", New South Poetry Prize, New South (2015)
  • Semi-finalist, DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest, New Michigan Press (2015)
  • Semi-finalist, George Bennett Fellowship, Phillips Exeter Academy (2015)
  • Nomination, Pushcart Prize (2015)
  • Semi-finalist, Brittingham and Felix Pollack Poetry Prizes, University of Wisconsin Press (2014)
  • Semi-finalist, New Issues Poetry Prize, New Issues Press (2014)
  • Teaching Fellow, Harvard University (2013-2014)
  • Esther B Kahn Scholarship, 24 Pearl Street, Fine Arts Work Center (2013)
  • Finalist, Dora & Alexander Raynes Poetry Prize, "The Hive", Judge: Gerald Stern, Jewish Currents (2013)
  • Nomination, Pushcart Prize, "The Senator", DMQ Review (2012)
  • Poetry Fellow, Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki and Thassos, Carolyn Forché (2012, 2013, 2014)
  • Fellowship, New York State Summer Writers Institute, Henri Cole (2011)
  • Robert Pinsky Teaching Fellow, Boston University (2010-2011)
  • Fellowship, New York State Summer Writers Institute, Henri Cole (2010)
  • Fellowship, New York State Summer Writers Institute, Campbell McGrath and Peg Boyers (2009)

Select Readings, Presentations, and Installations

  • Poetry Out Loud, Guest Judge, Deerfield High School (2016)
  • "Poetry that Connives: Lecture and Reading", Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (March 2015)
  • The Casserole Reading: The Side Dish #26, broadcast from Seattle, WA (April 2014)
  • Writers at the Black Box, Featured Alumnus, Boston University (April 2014)
  • New and Emerging Writers, Blacksmith House Poetry Series, Cambridge, MA (2014)
  • Poetry Out Loud, Guest Judge, The James D. O'Bryant, Boston Public Schools (2013)
  • "November Writers", The Theatre of Music and Words, Salem Massachusetts (November 2012)
  • "Arts in Education: Cabaret", multi-disciplinary arts event, poetry reading, Harvard University (October 2012)
  • "Emerging Poets", Boston MFA Programs, (May 2012)
  • The Poetry Dress, art installation ("The Senator"), Salem Poetry Festival and UMass Boston, (April 2011-April 2012)
  • "Poets and Painters", poetry reading and artist collaboration with Kyle Larson, Boston University (May 2011)
  • Writers at the Black Box, co-curator of reading series, Boston University (2010-2012)
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