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Poems<\/strong><\/h6>\n

“a river stone,”<\/a> tinywords<\/i><\/a>, Issue 24.2, December 2024.<\/p>\n

“salted tomatoes,” Kingfisher<\/em>, Issue 10, 2024.<\/p>\n

“telling him,” “fencepost lichen,” and “cloaking,” #FemkuMag<\/em><\/a>, Issue 37, Autumn\u2013Winter 2024.<\/p>\n

“the baby’s,” Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational<\/a>, Sakura Award, 2024.<\/p>\n

“thickening,” Modern Haiku<\/em><\/a>, Volume 55.3, Autumn 2024.<\/p>\n

“your skin against mine” and “singing our song,” #FemkuMag<\/em><\/a>, Issue 36, September 2024.<\/p>\n

“halley’s comet.”\u00a0 In Hauling the Tide: Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology 2024.<\/em>\u00a0 Edited by Edward Cody Huddleston.\u00a0 Haiku Society of America, 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201crabbit hutch,\u201d Modern Haiku<\/em><\/a>, Volume 55.2, Summer 2024<\/p>\n

\u201cboth the net\u201d and \u201ca pool of violets,\u201d Kingfisher<\/em><\/a>, Issue 9, 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cnew year\u2019s eve,\u201d hedgerow<\/em><\/a>, Issue 145, 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201ccaesarean section\u201d and \u201csnowberry clearwing,\u201d #FemkuMag<\/em><\/a>, Issue 35, Spring 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201creturn trip\u201d and \u201cmetro train,\u201d Golden Haiku<\/a>, Golden Triangle Business Improvement District, Washington, D.C., Spring 2024.\u00a0 \u201creturn trip\u201d was selected as the DC Area Winner.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201clengthening days,\u201d Modern Haiku<\/em>, Volume 55.1, Winter\u2013Spring, 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cwide open sky,\u201d<\/a> Pulse\u2014Voices from the Heart of Medicine<\/em><\/a>, https:\/\/pulsevoices.org\/, January 12, 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cthe visible arc\u201d and \u201cfirst crocus,\u201d Pan Haiku Review<\/em><\/a>, Issue 2, Winter 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201ca bloom of rust.\u201d In Fractured by Cattails: Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology<\/em>. Edited by Allyson Whipple. Haiku Society of America<\/a>, 2023.<\/p>\n

“loosening,” hedgerow<\/em><\/a>, Issue 143, Autumn 2023.<\/p>\n

“scattered sunshine,” Frogpond<\/em><\/a>, Issue 46:3, Autumn 2023.<\/p>\n

“binding the river,” Modern Haiku<\/em>,<\/a> Volume 54.3, Autumn 2023.<\/p>\n

“soft light rings,”<\/a> tinywords<\/em><\/a>, Issue 23.1<\/a>, March 2023.<\/p>\n

“the clinking of glass” and “evening shift,” Golden Haiku<\/a> poetry contest, Golden Triangle Business Improvement District<\/a>, Washington, D.C., Spring 2023.<\/p>\n

“first crocus,” Modern Haiku<\/em><\/a>, Volume 54.1, Winter\u2013Spring 2023.<\/p>\n

“wildflower honey,”<\/a> tinywords<\/em><\/a>, Issue 22.2, December 2022.<\/p>\n

“the way,” The Heron’s Nest<\/em><\/a>,<\/a> Volume XXIV, Number 4, December 2022.\u00a0 (This poem was featured on Ben Gaa’s YouTube show Haiku Talk<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

“the gleam,” Frogpond<\/em><\/a>, Volume 45:3, Autumn 2022.<\/p>\n

“another person asks,” Modern Haiku<\/em><\/a>, Volume 53.3, Autumn 2022.<\/p>\n

“even.” In Dawn Returns: The Haiku Society of America 2022 Members’ Anthology<\/em><\/a>. Edited by John J. Han. Haiku Society of America, 2022.<\/p>\n

“pulling cloth”<\/a> and “the warm weight,” The Heron’s Nest<\/em><\/a>, Volume XXIV, Number 3, September 2022.\u00a0 (“pulling cloth” was an Editors’ Choices haiku for this issue of The Heron’s Nest<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

“becoming the pool,” “bird’s eye speedwell,” “the dark dream moving,” “the way we make space,” and “before the rainbow,” Bloo Outlier Journal<\/em>, Issue 3<\/a>, Summer 2022.<\/p>\n

“almost an answer” and “forest canopy,” Frogpond<\/em><\/a>, Volume 45:2, Spring\u2013Summer 2022.<\/p>\n

“stitching,” Modern Haiku<\/em><\/a>, Volume 53.2, Summer 2022.<\/p>\n

“evening shift,”<\/a> tinywords<\/em><\/a>, Issue 22.1, May 2022.<\/p>\n

“thirteenth birthday,” Frogpond<\/em><\/a>, Volume 45:1, Winter 2022.<\/p>\n

“evensong,” Modern Haiku<\/em><\/a>, Volume 53.1, Winter\u2013Spring 2022.<\/p>\n

“sheltering.” In Visiting the Wind:<\/em> Haiku Society of America’s 2021 Members’ Anthology<\/em><\/a>. Edited by Erin Castaldi. Haiku Society of America<\/a>, 2021.<\/p>\n

“before,” Frogpond<\/em><\/a>, Volume 44:3, Autumn 2021.\u00a0 (This poem won a Touchstone Individual Poems Award from The Haiku Foundation<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

“evening moon,” Modern Haiku<\/em><\/a>, Volume 52.3, Autumn 2021.<\/p>\n

“sounding the depth,” The Heron’s Nest<\/em><\/a>, Volume XXIII, Number 3, September 2021.<\/p>\n

“starless night.” In Paper Mountains: Seabeck Haiku Anthology<\/em><\/a>. Edited by Tanya McDonald and Kelly Sauvage. Haiku Northwest Press, 2021.<\/p>\n

“saturday snowfall,” Frogpond<\/em><\/a>, Volume 44.1, Winter 2021.<\/p>\n

“their voices lighten,” “the tendril’s reach,” and “breath from his kisses.” In The Helping Hand Haiku Anthology<\/em><\/a>. Edited by Robert Epstein. Middle Island Press, 2020.<\/p>\n

“each place where,” Modern Haiku<\/em><\/a>, Volume 51.3, Autumn 2020.<\/p>\n

“subtexts,”<\/a> tinywords<\/em><\/a>, Issue 19.2, September 2019.<\/p>\n

“Star Deep Earth Dark: Animal Home Haiku,” Root & Star<\/em><\/a>, Issue 23, September\u2013October 2019.<\/p>\n

“twining the tendrils,”<\/a> tinywords<\/em><\/a>, Issue 17.2, January 2018.<\/p>\n

“How to Gather Light from the Dark,” Root & Star<\/em><\/a>, Issue 12, November\u2013December 2017.<\/p>\n

“the sound of snap peas.” In on down the road, Haiku Society of America 2017 Members’ Anthology<\/a><\/em>. Edited by Leroy Gorman. Haiku Society of America<\/a>, 2017.<\/p>\n

“Starlight,” Root & Star<\/em><\/a>, Issue 10, July\u2013August 2017.<\/p>\n

“the last long slant,” Modern Haiku<\/em><\/a>, Volume 48.1, Winter\u2013Spring 2017.<\/p>\n

“Origami,” Root & Star<\/em><\/a>, Issue 7, January\u2013February 2017.<\/p>\n

“first snow.” In Full of Moonlight: Haiku Society of America 2016 Members’ Anthology<\/em><\/a>. Edited by David Grayson. Haiku Society of America<\/a>, 2016.<\/p>\n

“his joke,” Modern Haiku<\/em><\/a>, Volume 47.3, Autumn 2016.<\/p>\n

“lifting my gaze,”<\/a> tinywords<\/em><\/a>, Issue 16.2, October 2016.<\/p>\n

“toward dusk,” The Heron’s Nest<\/em><\/a>, Volume XVIII, Number 2, June 2016.<\/p>\n

“strawberry moon,” Modern Haiku<\/em><\/a>, Volume 47.1, Winter\u2013Spring 2016.<\/p>\n

“walking to the well,” Project Milagro<\/a><\/em>, December 2014.<\/p>\n

“two hands,”<\/a> tinywords<\/em><\/a>, Issue 14.2, September 2014.<\/p>\n

“full moon,” Berry Blue Haiku<\/em>, Issue no. 4, March 2011.<\/p>\n

“Watching on the Mountain,” “Doughnut Days,” “The Lesson of Knitting,” and “Apples,” Puddle Jump Quarterly<\/em>, vol. 1, May 2007.<\/p>\n

All the Wild Roots of Spring: Poems<\/em><\/a>, MFA Thesis, Hollins University, 2008.<\/p>\n

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Awards<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Touchstone Award for Individual Poems<\/a>, 2021. \u00a0Awarded by The Haiku Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Golden Haiku DC Area Winner for the poem \u201creturn trip,\u201d 2024.<\/a>\u00a0 Awarded by the Golden Triangle Business Improvement District<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sakura Award for the poem “the baby’s,” Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational<\/a>, 2024.<\/p>\n

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Trifolds, Bifolds, and Other Small Publications<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Click on a title to download a PDF copy. Trifolds and bifolds should be printed double sided on a single page and then folded accordingly.\u00a0 Enjoy!
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flight lines<\/a>.<\/em> Trifold for the Haiku North America Conference<\/a>, October 15\u201317, 2021.<\/p>\n

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Essays<\/strong><\/h6>\n

“Mothers of Misselthwaite: Mothering Work and Space in The Secret Garden<\/em>.” In Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden: A Children’s Classic at 100<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Edited by Jackie C. Horne and Joe Sutliff Sanders.\u00a0 Scarecrow Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

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Book Reviews<\/strong><\/h6>\n

For a brief period of time, I wrote reviews of children’s books for the Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database<\/a>.\u00a0 The reviews can be found on the CLCD website and through Barnes and Noble.<\/p>\n\n\n

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