Literary Recognition
- You Cannot Save Here, Winner of the 2022 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize
- Out of Step: A Memoir, Winner of the 2019 Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Nonfiction
- Out of Step: A Memoir, named to the 2019 Over the Rainbow List, the annual bibliography of notable LGBTQ+ titles from the America Library Association
- “NGC 7365,” Winner of the 2019 Knott Poetry Prize from Clarion Magazine
- Winner of the 2019 Adele V. Holden Award for Creative Excellence, poetry
- Winner of the 2018 Adele V. Holden New Voices Award, poetry
- Out of Step: A Memoir, Winner of the 2017 Non/Fiction Prize from The Journal and The Ohio State University Press
- Nomination, 2022 Pushcart Prize in poetry: “You Cannot Save Here,” WWPH Writes
- Nomination, 2023 Pushcart Prize in fiction: “Submission Guidelines,” Fractured Lit
- Nomination, 2021 Best of Net; “Misreading,” Cotton Xenomorph
- Finalist, Baker Artist Awards 2023
Critical/Pedagogical Work
“Teaching and Writing True Stories Through Feminist, Womanist and Black Feminist Epistemologies.” Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, 2020.
Creative Work
Books
You Cannot Save Here. Washington Writers Publishing House, 2022.
Out of Step: A Memoir. The Ohio State University Press (Mad Creek), 2018.
Go to the Ant, O Sluggard. Akinoga Press, 2016. [chapbook, poems]
Included in: Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry after Stonewall, Edited by
Stephanie Burt. Harvard University Press, 2025.
Selected Work in Literary Journals
“Transexually-Constructed Lesbian Feminist Cento.” Capital Queer: A Pride Celebration from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. 2025.
“Lamb’s Ear and Lavender.”Voicemail Poems. 2025.
“Oizys and Achlys.”As You Were: The Military Review. 2025.
“Wild Geese after Wild Geese.” The Hopkins Review . 2024.
“Submission Guidelines.” Fractured Lit. 2023.
“Asking for PrEP.” Voicemail Poems. 2022.
“A Body in Pretty Boy.” Windfall Room. 2022.
“Misreading.” Cotton Xenomorph. 2020.
“Who Makes It.” and “Drowning is an Apparent and Unexpected Recurrent Cause of Mass Mortality of Common Starlings.” Poet Lore. Washington, DC. 2020.
“Aubade for an Ending That Doesn’t Arrive” MWA 2020 Anthology. Maryland Writers Association. 2020
Untitled Poem, Exquisite Ekphrastic Project. The Light Ekphrastic. Baltimore, 2020
“Great Basin.” Baltimore Beat, Baltimore, Maryland. 2019.
“You Cannot Save Here.” Hobart. Chicago, Illinois. 2019.
“You Cannot Save Here.” Voicemail Poems. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2019
“You Cannot Save Here.” Cartridge Lit. 2019.
“NGC 7365” Clarion Magazine. Boston, Massachusetts. 2019.
“A Jumpmaster in Dupont Circle.” Little Patuxent Review. Columbia, Maryland. 2017.
“Wrong as Two Boys, pt. II.” The Journal, Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio. 2017.
“After Star Stuff.” Minetta Review, Fall 2016. New York University, 2016.
“Orpheus with the Awkward Foot” and “His Highness.” Baltimore Ekphrastic Project. 2015.
“Memento and other poems.” Assaracus, Issue 15. Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014.
“Going Out” Gertrude Journal. Gertrude Press, 2013.
Editing Work with Presses and Journals
Author & Collective Member, Washington Writers Publishing House, 2022-Current
Staff, Mason Jar Press, 2019-2022
Special Guest Editor, Little Patuxent Review, Winter 2019 Issue
Faculty Advisor, Welter Journal, Issue 54
Journalism
Contributor, Times Literary Supplement (2019 – Current)
Points of Pride
Against Memoir Review
Columnist and Contributor, Baltimore City Paper (2014 – 2017)
Portrait of the War President as an Artist
James Franco is Not a Queer Poet
Wide Stance: Can transgender war hero Kristin Beck unseat House institution Steny Hoyer?
Mount Vernon keeps changing, but can it remain the gayborhood?
Wide Stance: The Hippo is closing, but in a city like Baltimore, what’s the point of a gay bar?
Contributor, Baltimore Gay Life (2012 – 2014)
Other literary projects
“The Latin Name for Trash Angel” and “Someone Asks Quora: What Happens to All the Stuff People Leave on the Graves?” Psychic Trash Detectives, an RPG from Scryptid Games 2022.
Co-Host, Lit!Pop!Bang!, a literary podcast. 2018 – 2022.
“Asking & Telling.” Incoming Radio, episode 9. KPBS. Dec. 2015.
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