Publications
A SAMPLING OF POEMS
After You Hear the May Greening
NC Poetry Society Poetry in Plain Sight Poster, 2026-27
Kakalak 2025 Anthology of Poets & Artists, 2025
Parable of Ursa Major in Autumn
The Clayjar Review, Issue 13: Bounty, Nov. 23, 2025
Grief Weathers
Common Threads, Ohio Poetry Association, Oct. 2025, p. 70
My Canoe is My Lover, a Red Cedar Felled Near Kill Devil Hills
Plant People, An Anthology of Environmental Artists
Vol. 5: Plants & Poetry, Sept. 30, 2025, p. 66
Predator, Beware the Bees: for the activists of Greenpeace
Poets for Science, May 8, 2025
Make a Map of Your Memories of Us
Moonstone Arts Center
Banned Book Week 2025 Anthology, Sept. 2025. P. 14
inScribe (Australia)
August 2025, Issue 10, Journey, p. 35
Predator, Beware the Bees: for the activists of Greenpeace
Poets for Science
May 8, 2025
How My Father Decides He Wants a Green Burial
Glory the Mourning with Morning: the Love Song of Mud
How a 300-Year-Old Live Oak Saved My Life
Lamentation Witnessed by Saplings
Soul Forte: A Journal for Spiritual Writing
Issue 12,2025
Britches with Balls: Cecil’s Female Cookery, 1917
Moonstone Arts Center S/He Speaks: Voices of Women and Trans Folx
Vol. 3, 2025, p. 25
The Communion of Magdalene Woman and Nazarene Man
Winner of The John Edward Johnson Prize
The Yearbook of The Poetry Society of South Carolina 2025, p. 24
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
Skeleton Flowers Press
Moon Goddess of Autumn Equinox
Skeleton Flowers Press
Heron Tree
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
storySouth
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.”
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
Tiny Seed Literary Journal
Woman, Transformed to Bird, Flower, and Song
The Clayjar Review
The Annunciation of a Dying Woman
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
The Fourth River
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
The Oat Sewing Escapade of Mabel T. Butterkeg
moonShine Review 2025 Anniversary Issue, Vol 21, p. 125
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
Now or Never: The Personal Story Publishing Project
50-Word Stories
Stir-Fried Bee Chrysalis and the Soul Stories of Bright Beaded Hats
Sooner or Later: The Personal Story Publishing Project
The Petrigru Review
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
Curious Stuff: The Personal Story Publishing Project
The Petigru Review
Nominated for Best Short Fiction
Capers in the Covent and a Sinner's Surprise
Twists & Turns: The Personal Story Publishing Project
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
That Southern Thing: The Personal Story Publishing Project
The Mythic Circle