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Publications

A SAMPLING OF POEMS

I pray the moon to teach me how to sing

Eunoia Review, May 1, 2025

Innocence Project Hearing

Chaos, Crisis, Conflict, Moonstone Arts Center Anthology, 2025, p. 34

Granny Sharps Tells of Graveyard Fields Grace 

Granny Dreams Herself a High Country Bear 

 Appalachian Places:  Stories From the Highlands, East Tennessee State University, March 2025

 

In A Hungry River Compost Pile, Henderson County, NC

Cathexis Northwest Press March - April 2025 Poetry Anthology​, p. 6-7

Black Mountain Loves Blood Moon

NC Poetry Society Poetry in Plain Sight Poster, 2025-2026

 

I Spoke Feathers

NC Poetry Society Poetry in Plain Sight Poster, 2024-2025

 

Granny’s Helpings, Witcher, West Virginia

Kakalak, 2024, p. 27

 

My Granny was a Goosebone Prophet

Skeleton Flowers Press

 

In the Autumn Thin Place 

Skeleton Flowers Press

Moon Goddess of Autumn Equinox

Skeleton Flowers Press

Sensible Shoes

Heron Tree

Time Passes

Heron Tree

            

Low Country Corn with Cooper River Grit / Low Country leather with Teeth and a Prophecy for Feet

Litmosphere

                    

After the Tops Friendly Markets Store Shooting

Wrap Me, Red Sleeves, in My Sister

An Old Woman Collected Cats in 1985

Main Street Rag, No. 3, Summer 2024, pps. 24, 25, 26

 

Prick of the Dark in Swain County Cemetery

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Winner of the North Carolina Writers' Network 2024 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize. Judge Logen Cure said, “I chose this poem because it stuck with me after first reading it. It is unmistakably North Carolinian, with its setting in Swain County and gorgeous depiction of ‘old / mountain offerings / to the dead.’ I was struck by the use of ‘holy’ as a verb in the opening, and I have continued to consider the questions in the second stanza: ‘How, after all, / can grief be / a thing graspable? / Or holy be / a thing held?’ The closing lines of this poem do not neatly resolve these questions; rather, the speaker offers a moment of connection, reflecting the complex reality of grief.”

Night Owl Dreams Woman

The Sunlight Press

As I Go Blind I See / Each Macular Hole is an Hourglass in My Eye / Communion with Orange

Please See Me

Prayer Walker’s Tongue

Kakalak, 2023. p. 100

 

The Holy Ghost is God the Woman who Comes with Tongue of Fire

Gyroscope Review, Summer 2023, p. 47

 

Dandelion Girl

Tiny Seed Literary Journal

Woman, Transformed to Bird, Flower, and Song

The Clayjar Review

Fire My Clay to Cup

Amethyst Review

The Annunciation of a Dying Woman

Amethyst Review

Snakeberry Mama 

Kakalak, 2022, p. 121

 

A Plate of Sea by Cienfuegos, City of Hungry Corners

The Main Street Rag, Vol 27, Number 1, Winter 2022, p. 18

 

Hungry Love Seeks Dressy Dimestore Woman

Broad River Review, Vol. 53, 2021, p. 69, finalist for Broad River Review Rash Award in Poetry

 

Aunt Lil’s Crazy Quilt

Kakalak, 2022, p. 101

 

After the Yard Sale

County Lines:  A Literary Journal, Vol 8, Franklin County Arts Council Writers Guild, 2021, p. 84

 

Her Kitchen Hands Make Love

Pinesong, Katherine Kennedy McIntyre Light Verse Award, 2nd Place, North Carolina Poetry Society, Vol 57, 2021, p. 21

 

October Hands

The Fourth River

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Woman-Tied Knots, Sichuan, 1986

North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 88, Numbers 1/2 Spring/Summer 2021, University of Nebraska Press, 2021, p. 40

 

Serenity Prayer, Old Chapel Cemetery 

North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 88, Numbers 1/2 Spring/Summer 2021, University of Nebraska Press, 2021, p. 41

 

They Call Me Crone, But I Know I’m An Old Woman Seizing Her Power

Gyroscope Review, Crone Power Issue, Issue 21-4, Fall 2021, p. 10. Nominated for Pushcart Prize in Poetry; also published in Gyroscope Review Year-End Anthology, 2021, p. 187

 

Heirloom Tomatoes 

Kakalak, 2020, p. 62.

 

 

 

A SAMPLING OF STORIES

Place in My Poetry: An Essay

Catholic Literary Arts Newsletter, May 2025

 

Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover

moonShine Review, Vol. 20, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2024, pps. 3-6 

Nominated for Pushcart Prize in Fiction

            

From Mudville to Joy Ville

Now or Never: The Personal Story Publishing Project

Peach Skin Letters

50-Word Stories

            

Stir-Fried Bee Chrysalis and the Soul Stories of Bright Beaded Hats

Sooner or Later: The Personal Story Publishing Project

The Bead Collector’s Memories

The Petrigru Review

Swept by Two Birds and a Rose

Braided Way

When Pigs Fly in Knotweed County, 

County Lines: a Literary Journal, Vol. 11, Franklin County Arts Council and the Carolina Piedmont Writers’ Guild,  2023, pps. 8-15,  Awarded Honorable Mention for Carolina Prize for Writing 

 

Devil’s Footprint on My Chin: The Great Awakening of Iris Blue Luckadoo Bivens

Hard to Find:  An Anthology of New Southern Gothic, ed., Meredith Janning, Stephen F. Austin State University Press (SFASU Press), Nacogdoches, TX, distributed by Texas A&M Consortium, pps. 111-117. Finalist for the 2023 Doris Betts Fiction Prize sponsored by NC Writers' Network

 

A Well-Dressed Woman and Her Good Luck Go-Go Boots

moonShine Review, Spring/Summer 2022, pps. 13-16

 

Doll Clothes for Jesus

moonShine Review, Fall/Winter 2022, Vol. 18, Issue 2, pps. 39-44

 

Holding Hands with Angels

Curious Stuff: The Personal Story Publishing Project

Bride of Wild

The Petigru Review

Nominated for Best Short Fiction

Capers in the Covent and a Sinner's Surprise

Twists & Turns: The Personal Story Publishing Project

Polka Dots & Yellow Teeth

​The RavensPerch

Coaltown Valley Blues, the Almost Happy Life of a Fat Four-Eyed Freak

Northern Appalachia Review, Vol. 3, Number 1, 2022, pps. 43-48

 

Faith, Hope and Living Love

moonShine Review, Vol 17, issue 1, 2021, pps. 59-62

 

Dogwood Johnny

That Southern Thing: The Personal Story Publishing Project

The Tree That Stood Forever

The Mythic Circle

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