Although my second poetry book manuscript, Gullier, has yet to find a home, it was gratifying to receive a recent rejection from Copper Canyon informing me they admired it, that the “manuscript was strong and made it through several rounds of review.” With the list of other places the manuscript has so far found a little love, it gives me hope that someday…

Georgia Poetry Prize (one of 9 finalists)
Sarabande Kathryn A. Morton Prize (one of 15 finalists)
Milkweed (“read attentively and with much interest”)
Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize U of Utah (one of 16 semi-finalists)
Pleiades Press Editors prize (semi-finalist)
Octopus Books (second round of consideration)
Black Lawrence Press (“read with interest”)
Brittingham & Pollak Prizes/U of Wisconsin Press (strong semi-finalist)
New Measure / Free Verse / Parlor Press (“admired”)
Tupelo Press (“truly enjoyed reading your work”)