“My writing instructor called what happened rape, so now, this evening.” Stoneboat Literary Review. Fall 2024.

“Appetite.” Cleaver Magazine. Summer 2024.

“Text Exchange: Dr. B & Meg.” Sage Cigarettes. June 20, 2024.

“Haldol and the Blue Horses.” Atticus Review. April 2024.

"Scar Shine." Mount Hope Magazine. November 2023.

“Rash Prayers.” Awakenings Review. Spring 2023.

"Witness to the Aria.” Cleaver Magazine, Spring 2023.

“the carnivorous love flowers.” New Delta Review. Dec. 2022.

“Blackbird Dreams.” CRAFT. Jan. 12, 2022.

“Running After Her.” Brevity, Sept. 2020.

“Neonate.” San Fedele Press. 2020.

“A Different Kind of Home.” IHRAF Publishes, 2020.

Journalism

Article - The Mitt Magazine - “A Life on the Farm”

Article - The Mitt Magazine - “How Kenny Spear overcame addiction to build a youth development nonprofit”

Newspaper Article - Manistee News Advocate - “Flight from Pain”

Honors & Awards

• Emerging Artist Award, Cleaver, “Appetite” (2024)

• Finalist, Prose Contest, Fugue, “Loving the Manatee" (2024)

• Finalist, Creative Nonfiction Contest, CRAFT, “Blackbird Dreams” (2021)

• Pushcart Nomination, International Human Rights Art Festival, “A Different Kind of Home” (2020)

• 1st Place, Essay, Creators of Justice Literary Competition, International Human Rights Art Festival, “A Different Kind of Home” (2020)

• Michigan Press Association Award, News Enterprise Reporting (2014)

• Hopwood Undergraduate Creative Writing Award, Fiction, University of Michigan (2007)

• Hopwood Undergraduate Creative Writing Award, Essay, University of Michigan (2006)

• Hopwood Underclassmen Creative Writing Award, Essay, University of Michigan (2004)

• National Merit Scholar (2002)