WRITING

i’m here again

and i’ve packed light: just myself and my paring knife,

honed and sharp, leaping for work.

—from “mississippi border,” Nashville Review, Issue 33

2024

• (forthcoming) “evening service,” poem, Passages North
• (forthcoming) “body as vanished lyre,” poem, Copper Nickel
• (forthcoming) “abecedarian for xena: warrior princess,” poem, Notre Dame Review
• (forthcoming) “at the worst of the insomnia, i begin to melt,” poem, Third Coast
• (forthcoming) “helen of troy explains to the gods,” “helen of troy on the affair (vi),” and “helen of troy on the affair (vii),” poems, LitMag
• (forthcoming) “ariel goes home” and “helen, alone,” poems, the minnesota review
• (forthcoming) “helen of troy on the affair (v),” poem, Cave Wall
• (forthcoming) “mandated report,” poem, Cimarron Review
• “helen of troy meets the big cheese,” poem, The Atlantic
• “helen of troy plants near the mailbox” and “helen of troy surfs the net,” poems, Puerto del Sol, Issue 58.2, Winter 2023 (print only)
• “helen of troy calls her sister,” poem, Poetry Daily (reprint from Kenyon Review), January 13, 2024

2023

• “outside the dementia ward” and “legacy,” poems, Four Way Review, Issue 28
• “blessing,” poem, Bayou Magazine, Issue 78 (print only), nominated for Best New Poets
• “interlude: the swan describes an invasive species,” poem, Smartish Pace, Issue 30 (print only)
• “helen of troy recalls the tenth date,” poem, New Ohio Review, Issue 33, Fall 2023
• “helen of troy folds laundry in a dim room” and “helen of troy cranks the volume on ‘like a prayer’ in the ballet studio parking lot,” poems, Sewanee Review, Vol. CXXXI/No. 4, Fall 2023 (print only)
• “the pediatric psychiatrist gives me a cautionary tale,” poem, Harpur Palate, Issue 22.1, Summer 2023
• “orion conquers the sky,” poem, On Spec, Volume 33 No 2 (#124) (print only), nominated for a Rhysling
• “helen of troy goes parking with the defensive tackle,” poem, Washington Square Review, Number 49, Summer 2023 (print only)
• “helen of troy in the delivery ward,” poem, Poetry Northwest, Volume XVIII, Issue 1, Summer & Fall 2023 (print only)
• “helen of troy catalogues her pregnancy cravings,” poem, The Missouri Review, Poem of the Week, May 22, 2023, nominated for Best of the Net
• “helen of troy tells her mother it’s a graduation girls trip and drives alone to the clinic in nashville” and “helen of troy catches reruns,” poems, ZYZZYVA, Issue 125, Spring 2023 (print only)
• “the wrongness lies, she said” and “ten percent,” poems, South Carolina Review, Volume 55.2, Spring 2023 (print only)
• “interlude: the swan describes the war,” poem, Redivider, Issue 20.1, nominated for Best of the Net
• “interlude: the swan describes the harvest” and “interlude: the swan describes the ouroboros,” poems, The Southampton Review, Volume XVII, Issue 31, Winter/Spring 2023 (print only)
• “i buy a house with floor grates,” poem, The MacGuffin, Volume XXXVIII, Number 3, Winter 2023 (print only)
• “missus johnson goes to church on sundays,” poem, Southern Humanities Review, Volume 56.1 (print only), nominated for Best Spiritual Literature
• “helen of troy on the affair (iii),” poem, Bat City Review, Issue 18 (print only)
• “west country,” poem, Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, March 2023
• “skin, trim, and clean,” poem, Quarterly West, Issue 108, finalist in the 2022 Poetry Contest
• “cassie waits by the phone,” poem, The McNeese Review, Volume 60 (print only)
• “self poem with memphis inside,” poem, Pleiades, Issue 42.2/43.1, Fall 2022/Spring 2023 Double Issue (print only)
• “helen of troy goes ice fishing,” “helen of troy calls her sister,” “helen of troy on the affair,” “helen of troy in february,” and “helen of troy avoids her school reunion,” poems, Kenyon Review, Volume XLV Number 1, Winter 2023 (one online, four print only)

2022

• “eat,” poem, Space and Time Magazine, Issue 142, Fall/Winter 2022 (print only)
• “beat this real good (bone one)” and “slice thickly and cover (bone three),” poems, Diode, Vol. 15 No. 3
• “helen of troy is asked to the spring formal,” poem, the Arkansas International, Issue 13, Fall 2022, nominated for Best of the Net
• “saint somebody’s,” poem, Orange Blossom Review; nominated for Best of the Net, Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize
• “helen of troy’s turn to judge” and “helen of troy runs to piggly wiggly,” poems, Narrative Magazine, Fall 2022
• “helen of troy gets the news from her sister,” “helen of troy cleans up after the barbecue,” and “helen of troy reigns over chuck e. cheese,” poems, New Letters, Vol. 88 No. 3 & 4, Summer/Fall 2022; “helen of troy reigns over chuck e. cheese” nominated for a Pushcart
• “cockspur point,” poem, RHINO Poetry, Issue 46 (print only)
• “certain things die at certain times,” poem, Seneca Review, Issue 52.1, Spring 2022 (print only)
• “helen of troy makes an entrance” and “loggerhead excavation, tybee island,” poems, Booth, September 2022
• “helen of troy recovers at st. francis,” poem, Tahoma Literary Review, Issue 23, Summer 2022 (print only), nominated for Best New Poets
• “helen of troy’s new whirlpool washing machine” and “helen of troy watches jurassic park in theaters,” poems, Hunger Mountain, Issue 26, Summer 2022
• “soft love,” poem, Moon City Review, 2022 Issue (print only)
• “helen of troy feuds with the neighborhood” and “helen of troy makes peace with the kudzu,” poems, Electric Literature’s The Commuter, Issue 233, August 15, 2022
• “red rover,” poem, The Iowa Review, Issue 51.2, Spring 2022 (print only)
• “diseases of unwed girls,” poem, The Cincinnati Review, Issue 19.1, Spring 2022
• “walking tour” and “severance,” poems, Pembroke Magazine, Issue 54 (print only)
• “house on the bluff,” poem, Fugue, Issue 62, Spring/Summer 2022 (print only)
• “helen of troy on the indiscretion,” poem, Cream City Review, Issue 46.1 (print only)
• “helen of troy returns to sparta,” poem, Alaska Quarterly Review, Volume 38 No. 3 & 4, Spring/Summer 2022 (print only)
• “new year’s eve” and “horatio to his father,” poems, Ninth Letter, Volume 19.1, Spring/Summer 2022 (print only)
• “after the holidays at home,” poem, Ruminate Magazine, Issue 62.1, Spring/Summer 2022, second place winner of the Broadside Poetry Prize (print only)
• “warming,” poem, Nightmare Magazine, Issue 117 (June 2022), nominated for a Rhysling
• “to my eighth graders in love with shrinking,” poem, Grist, Issue 14 (print only)
• “invasive species,” poem, The Penn Review, Issue 71: Spring
• “dry land,” poem, reprinted in the 2022 Rhysling Anthology
• “worker’s comp,” poem, The Indianapolis Review, Issue #20, Spring 2022
• “like a ghost, iphigenia,” poem, Salt Hill, Issue 47 (print only)
• “property,” poem, Raleigh Review, Volume 12.1, Spring 2022 (print only)
• “self-portrait as rip current,” poem, TriQuarterly, Issue 161, Winter/Spring 2022

2021

• “flannery o’connor and i go bowling,” poem, Sugar House Review, Issue 23, Winter 2021 (print only)
• “self-portrait as god,” poem, Water~Stone Review, Volume 24 (print only)
• “helen of troy runs the station wagon into a ditch” and “helen of troy rejects applebee’s,” poems, HAD
• “Extracurricular,” short story, Indiana Review, Volume 43.1 (print only)
• “andromache at epirus,” poem, Grain Magazine, Vol. 48.4 (print only)
• “every hollow of the world” and “aubade,” poems, Salamander, Issue #52: Spring/Summer 2021
• “dig,” poem, Yemassee, Issue 27 (print only)
• “october, early,” poem, The Massachusetts Review, Volume 62, Issue 2 (print only)
• “the selkie waits another night,” poem, Palette Poetry
• “letters from ophelia,” poem, Prism Review, winner of the 2021 Prism Review Poetry Contest (judge: Lynne Thompson), issue #23 (print only), nominated for Best New Poets
• “dry land,” poem, Strange Horizons, Issue: 7 June 2021 (podcasted here by Ciro Faienza), Honorable Mention: 2022 Rhysling Award (Short Category)
• “target aisle 33,” poem, Fence, 37-38 SPR-SUM 2021 (print only)
• “eratosthenes measures the world and finds it smaller than expected,” poem, Lake Effect, Volume 25 (print only)
• “ten-foot drop,” poem, Dogwood, winner of the 2021 Dogwood Literary Award in Poetry (judge: Lauren K. Alleyne), Spring 2021 (print only)
• “hike,” poem, Ploughshares, Issue 147/Spring 2021 (print only)
• “i sit with miss jean to learn witchcraft at a catholic nursing home,” poem, The Southeast Review, Volume 39.1
• “at the downtown kroger,” poem, Colorado Review, Volume 48.1, Spring 2021 (print only)
• “in a month” and “leaving,” poems, Jabberwock Review, Volume 41.2, Winter/Spring 2021 (print only)
• “like the gator loves the snake,” poem, Fantasy Magazine, Issue #63/January 2021
• “ecdysis,” poem, 32 Poems, Issue 18.2/Winter 2020 (print only)