I just started a newsletter: Be Where You Are—and I’d love for you to check it out! It’s about how to use writing and mindfulness to be where you are. I’ll be sharing mini-essays, writing and mindfulness prompts, and interviews with writers, teachers, and artists.

This newsletter takes its name from a phrase I’ve been writing as a reminder to myself over the past few years: Be where you are. Because no matter how many reminders I give myself, it is incredibly hard not to go shooting off into my thought loops, or, to dive into Instagram stories, or to obsess about deadlines and all the things I’m not doing. To actually be here. I’m hoping we can share ideas, questions, frustrations, and practices in this space.

This first mini-essay comes from the trenches of summer parenting, which on Instagram seems glorious always but, in truth, can be challenging as hell.

I’d be honored if you’d check it out and consider subscribing for free to get new posts in your inbox—and share it with a friend or two✨✨

My debut full-length collection, THE FALLS, is out now from New American Press and you can order it here from White Whale Bookstore, the New American Press website, or anywhere that books are sold!

My debut chapbook, FEED, is out now from Seven Kitchens Press! You can order your copy here.

My manuscript, The Falls, was a finalist for the 2016 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize offered by University of Pittsburgh Press. !!!Happy dance!!!  I’m so grateful for this encouragement.

And, congrats to the winner, Erin Adair-Hodges! I look forward to reading your book.

New poems are out in Tupelo Quarterly, Bridge Eight Magazine, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Southword Journal (Ireland), Rogue Agent, and DIALOGIST, and two new poems are forthcoming in the September issue of Connotation Press.

My manuscript, A Thousand Arms, was a semifinalist for The 2016 Washington Prize from The Word Works Press.

My poem, “Needlework,” was nominated for the 2016 Best of the Net Anthology by Tupelo Quarterly.

My poem, “Anatomy of Distance,” was nominated for the 2016 Best of the Net anthology by DIALOGIST.

My poem, “As Much As A Letter,” was highly commended in the Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Prize competition and published online in the April/May issue of Southword Journal (Ireland).

My poem, “Needlework,” was a semifinalist for the Tupelo Quarterly 2016 Poetry Prize (TQ9), and published online in Tupelo Quarterly (TQ9).

My poem, “Needlework,” was a finalist for Sycamore Review‘s 2016 Wabash Prize for Poetry.

My poem, “Letters to Pittsburgh I,” was nominated for the 2015 Best of the Net Anthology by HEArt Journal Online.