Courses Taught

Degrees

Books

• The Art of the Possible, Work in Progress
• Rhythm and Blues, National Poetry Series Finalist, 2019
• For the Mountain Laurel, University of Georgia Press, 2011
• Free Union, University of Georgia Press, 2009

Anthology Inclusions

• Monticello in Mind: 50 Contemporary Poets on Jefferson, ed. Lisa Russ Spaar, University of Virginia Press, 2016
• Literature and its Writers, ed. Ann Charters, St. Martin's, 2012
• The Rumpus Poetry Anthology, ed. Brian Spears, 2012
• The Best American Poetry 2008, ed. Charles Wright, Scribner, 2009

Selected Recent Poems

• “Soroche,” “Incomplete Stranger,” The Southern Review, Autumn 2020
• “Blind Spot,” Kenyon Review Online special issue on Literary Activism, Fall 2019
• "Poem," The Southern Review, Winter 2019.
• “At Forty,” “Dining Alone,” “On the Set of My Life as a Variety Show,” The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Fall 2018
• "The Punchline," Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2017
• “Boxing Day,” “Echt,” “Kingfisher,” The Southern Review, Autumn 2017
• "Sex Among Equals," Fence, Winter 2016
• "Rhythm and Blues," The Southern Review, Spring 2015
• "Passage," Shenandoah, August 2012
• "Nocturne: Redaction," The Paris Review, Summer 2009

Selected Recent Essays, Reviews, & Interdisciplinary Projects

• “Lived Experience: The Lyric First Person in Three Recent Poetry Collections,” VQR, Fall 2020
• "Memory / Viajar," essay-film in progress
• "The Imaginary City," Field Notes, Spring 2015
• "Surfacing," Offline, January 2014
• "Midfield," The Morning News, May 2013
• "So History Begins With Us," VQR, Fall 2013
• "On Denis Johnson's 'The Incognito Lounge,'" Voltage Poetry, April 2013

Honors & Awards

• Visiting Artist Faculty in Residence, New York University, 2009-2020
• Mednick Fellowship, Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, 2014
• Nominated for Pushcart Prize 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019
• Sweet Briar College Faculty Fellowship, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, 2013

Recent Presentations

• Havana International Poetry Festival, Havana, Cuba, June 2018
• Roundtable on Leontia Flynn’s The Radio, American Conference for Irish Studies, Cork, Ireland, June 2018
• Lead Panelist, "Honoring Charles Wright at 80," 2015 AWP Conference, Minneapolis, Mn.
• Furious Flower Poetry Conference, James Madison University, 2014
• Sweet Briar College & James Madison University Creative Writing Conference Presentations, 2009-2016