Publications

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Pushcart Prize, Nominee, Connecticut River Review, 2023

• Pushcart Prize, Nominee, Thrush Poetry Journal, 2023

• Driftwood Press, Finalist, 2023

• National Poetry Series, Finalist, 2022

• Driftwood Press, Finalist, 2021
• Tupelo Press, Dorset Prize Semi-finalist, 2021

• Pushcart Prize, Nominee, Slipstream, 2020

• Best of the Net, Nominee, The Hunger, 2020

• Founder’s Prize, Finalist, RHINO, 2020

• Pushcart Prize, Nominee, Jabberwocky Press, 2019

• Gold Wake Press Open Reading, Semi-finalist, 2019

• Pushcart Prize, Nominee, Black Lawrence Press, 2018

• Pushcart Prize, Nominee, Louisville Review, 2018

• Pushcart Prize, Nominee, Chiron Review, 2018

• Quarterly West Chapbook Contest, Editor’s Choice, 2018

• Center for Book Arts Chapbook Contest, Finalist, 2018

• Broadside Contest, Finalist, Sundress Publications, 2018

• Pushcart Prize, Nominee, New South, 2017

• Pushcart Prize, Nominee, Nightjar Review, 2017

• Sundress Publications, Finalist, 2017

• Marsh Hawk Press, Finalist, 2017

• Cynthia Longfellow Teaching Recognition Award, Nominee, 2017

• Pushcart Prize, Nominee, Zoetic Press, 2016

• Sundress Publications, Finalist, 2016

• Pushcart Prize, Nominee, Thrush Poetry Journal, 2016

• Ninth Letter poetry contest, Honorable Mention, 2016

• Philip Levine Poetry Prize, Semi-Finalist, 2016

• Best of the Net, Winner, Midway Journal, 2015

• Pushcart Prize, Nominee, Gold Wake Press, 2014

• Pushcart Prize, Nominee, Drifting Down the Lane Anthology,2014

• Black Lawrence Press Hudson Award, Semi-Finalist, 2013

• Pushcart Prize, Nominee, Stone Highway Review, 2012

• “Editor’s Choice” Poetry Contest, Line Zero Magazine, November 2011

• Academy of American Poets Prize, Emerson College, 2009

• Master’s Thesis Departmental Award nominee, Emerson College, 2009

• Member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, 2002-2005

• Dean’s List, Western Michigan University, 2003-2005

• Dean’s List, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, 2001-2003

• Michigan International Press Association 3^rd place Feature Writing, 1999

• Journalism Award, Portage Northern High School, 2000

PUBLICATIONS

Books (Anthologies): 

• Drifting Down the Lane: An Anthology of Art and Poetry. Moon and Mountain Press, 2013.

• Forgotten Women Anthology. Grayson Books, 2017.

• Condoms and Hot Tubs Don’t Mix: An Anthology of Sexcapades. Beating Windward Press, 2018.

• Nasty Women Anthology.  Lost Horse Press, 2017.

Poetry:

• “The Old Red Maple.” Minnetonka Review. (Feb. 2008)

• “Words.” Pank Magazine. (May 2009)

• “Lepidoptery.” Glass: A Journal of Poetry. (Sept. 2009)

• “Small Wreckage” and “Single Girls.” The Fertile Source. (Mar. 2010)

• “Searching for Amelia Earhart” and “Elegy for CD Laws.” Fogged Clarity. (Mar. 2010)

• “Funeral in Provincetown.” The Aurorean. (Apr. 2010)

• “Virginity” and “Hysterectomy.” Breadcrumb Scabs. (May 2010)

• “Ache,” “The Hottest Day of the Year,” and “Not for Love’s Sake.” Poetry Quarterly.  (June 2010)

• “Dandelions.” Cold Mountain Review. (July 2010)

• “Blue Suns, Yellow Skies” and “The Side of the Road.” Burning Word. (Apr. 2011)

• “The Morning After.” The Comstock Review. (Aug. 2011)

• “Pike,” “Ode to the Orgasm,” Eros’ Defense,” “Flesh Perception,” and “Wild Things.” Nefarious Ballerina. (Aug. 2011)

• “Dabbling in the Occult.” Line Zero. (Nov. 2011)

• “Biology.” Thrush Poetry Journal. (Mar. 2012)

• “If You Want to Write About Grief.” Black Heart Magazine. (Mar. 2012)

• “Woman Folding Origami.” The Montucky Review. (Jun. 2012)

• “To Orpheus,” “Mother,” “Sitting on the Porch at 5 am,” “Reluctant Mistress,”  and “End of the Affair.” Eunoia Review. (Sept. 2012)

• “Elegy for the Robin.” Foundling Review. (Sept. 2012)

• “The Ritual,” “In Your Twenties,” and “Astronomy 101.” Stone Highway Review.(Sept. 2012)

• “Autumn Equinox and the Harvest Moon.” Boston Literary Magazine. (Sept. 2012)

• “Snapdragons.” Cider Press Review. (Oct. 2012)

• “Those Common Fictions.” New South. (Mar. 2013)

• “Undo.” The Squaw Valley Review. (July 2013)

• “Vows.” Dressing Room Poetry Journal. (Mar. 2013)

• “Leap,” “Black Ice,” and “Napa Valley.” The Poetic Pinup Revue. (May 2013)

• “The Revelation.” A-Minor Magazine. (May 2013)

• “Snapdragons.” Verse Daily. (Mar. 2013)

• “Allegory of God’s Love” and “Annie Oakley.” The Pinch. (May 2013)

• “To Judy Garland.” Broad! A Gentlelady’s Magazine. (Aug. 2013)

• “Divorce.” The Smoking Poet. (Aug. 2013)

• “The Bitch,” “Panic Attack,” “Guardian Angel,” and “Heartache.” Honest Press. (Aug. 2013)

• Excerpts from The Dark Length Home, a collaborative chapbookby Anne Champion and Sarah Sweeney. The Poetic Pinup Revue. (Oct. 2013)

• Excerpts from The Dark Length Home, a collaborative chapbook by Anne Champion and Sarah Sweeney. Stone Highway Review. (Oct. 2013)

• “Purity.” Gutter Eloquence. (Oct. 2013)

• “Couple’s Therapy.” The Nervous Breakdown. (Oct. 2013)

• “Heartache.” Clutching at Straws. (Oct. 2013)

• “Affair.” Poets/Artists. (Oct. 2013)

• “Interpreting the Dream.” Melusine. (Dec. 2013)

• Excerpts from The Dark Length Home, a collaborative chapbook by Anne Champion and Sarah Sweeney. Amethyst Arsenic. (Feb. 2014)

• “Dueling Sonnets in a Photo Album.” Noctua Review. (Feb. 2014)

• “The Most Terrible Thing.” Midway Journal. (Jul. 2014)

• “Marching for Mike Brown.” Entropy Magazine. (Dec. 2014)

• “Morning Tea.” Stirring. (Feb. 2015)

• “Maybe You’ll Come Back.” Redivider. (May 2015)

• “Fistful of Feathers,” “Phone Call to Mom,” “Re-entry,” and excerpts from The Dark Length Home. Split Lip Zine. (Apr. 2015)

• “In the Rabbi Settler’s House” and “Demolition Order.” Jaffat El Aqlam. (Apr. 2015)

• “I Know the Woman I’m Expected To Be.” Ostrich Review. (Jul. 2015)

• “Steady Ground” and “The Perfume of this World.” HEArt. (Feb. 2016)

• “The Book of Sumud.” Prairie Schooner. (June 2016)

• “Mae West Instructs How Not to Love.” The Greensboro Review. (Sept. 2016)

• “Conversations in Which Nicole Brown Simpson’s Ghost Appears.” Up the Staircase Quarterly. (Aug. 2016)

• “The Spice Market.” Harpur Palate. (Sept. 2016)

• “Please Tell Me This About Helen Keller” and “Diego and I.” Apt. (Nov. 2016)

• “Why I Feel Privilege Guilt,” “Fatherly Wisdom for the Palestinian Child,” and “Show Your ID.” Connotation Press. (Sept. 2016)

• “Eva Peron.” Southword. (Aug. 2016)

• “What Princess Diana Taught Me.” Pittsburgh Poetry Review. (June 2016)

• “Aileen Wuornos” and “Sally Ride Watches the Challenger Explode.” So to Speak. (Sept. 2016)

• “The Rhythm of Uncertainty” descant. (Nov. 2016)

• “Albert Cashier.” The Fem. (Oct. 2016)

• “Baptism Ritual.” San Pedro River Review. (Sept. 2016)

• “Weathervane.” Thrush Poetry Journal. (Nov. 2016)

• “Gaza Prayer Circle” and “In the Rabbi Settler’s House.” The Potomac. (Jan. 2017)

• “Spell for the Hive,” “The Gone, the Disappeared,” and “Spell for Drained Public Pools.” Gargoyle. (Sept. 2016)

• “Bettie Page and the Wisdom of Old Age.” Muzzle Magazine. (Nov. 2016)

• “Not in My Name, Nor for My Security.” Borderlands. (Nov. 2016)

• “Graveyard of Numbers.” Epiphany Magazine. (Nov, 2016)

• “Spell to Delay the End of Time.” Amethyst Arsenic. (Nov. 2016)

• “Mermaid Spell” and “Conversations with Inherited Jewelry.” Dressing Room Poetry Journal. (Nov. 2016)

• “Mandatory Dissection,” “Roadkill Resuscitation,” “Mothkeeper,” “Spell for Worry,” and “Spell for a Gash.  Menacing Hedge. (Jan. 2017)

• “Woman Knight of Mirror Lake” and “For Meena Kamal.” Eleven Eleven. (Jan. 2017)

• “Letter from a Martyr’s Widow.” Puerto Del Sol. (Mar. 2017)

• “Predictions,” “Japanese Arrowroot,” “Praise Song,” and “Saltwater Spell.” The Pinch. (Mar. 2017)

• “We Can’t Breathe.” Salamander. (July 2017)

• “Spell for the Girls Who Want Spells” and “For a Bruise.” Bellingham Review.(June 2018)

• “When They Come for the Girls Today” and “Am I a Saint?” New South. (Sept. 2017)

• “Saint Rita” and “Saint Brigid of Ireland” Diode. (June 2017)

• “Spell for Machines.” The Cortland Review. (May 2017)

• “War Games in Gaza.” Rise Up Review. (Apr. 2017)

• “Spell to Stop Harassment,” “Body Spell,” and “Fossil Spell.” Bateau Literary Magazine. (Nov. 2017)

• “Saint Barbara,” “Saint Teresa of Avila,” “Saint Dymphna,” “Saint Margaret of Antioch,” and “Saint Apollonia.” Tupelo Quarterly. (June 2017)

• “Florence Nightingale.” Sweet. (June 2017)

• “Saint Quiteria” and “Saint Christina the Astonishing.” The Boiler. (Sept. 2017)

• “On Noticing that Nearly Every Biography in the Children’s Book of Women Saints Starts by Describing a ‘Beautiful Girl.’” Carve Magazine. (Jan. 2018)

• “Saint Hermoine.” Glass: A Journal of Poetry. (Jan. 2018)

• “Saint Catherine of Alexandria.” Grist. (Mar. 2018)

• “Saint Mary of Egypt.” Free State Review. (May 2018)

• “How to Resurrect a Dissected Animal.” The Louisville Review. (July 2018)

• “Saint Agnes.” Fourth & Sycamore. (Sept. 2017)

• “Saint Lucy.” Nightjar Review. (Sept. 2017)

• “I Want to Marry a Communist.” Crab Orchard Review. (Feb. 2018)

• “Saint Ursula” and “Saint Joan of Arc.” Off the Coast. (Nov. 2017)

• “How Capitalism Fucks” and “How Capitalism Ends.” Waccamaw. (Nov. 2017)
• “What is Trying to Kill You” and “How Capitalism Dreams.” Jet Fuel Review.(Dec. 2017)

• “After the Election, I Lose Desire for Men” and “The Business of Guns” Chiron Review. (Dec. 2018)

• “After the President Calls Citizens ‘Sons of Bitches.’” Pangyrus. (June 2018)

• “Wind Spell.” Tar River Poetry. (June 2018)

• “How Capitalism Grows Up.” Pembroke Magazine. (Apr. 2018)

• “Santería in Cuba.” Notre Dame Review. (Oct. 2018)

• “I Get Pneumonia and Ignore Politics for a Month” and “False Idols.” Superstition Review. (May 2018)

• “Home Visit with a Working Woman in Cuba.” Lunch Ticket. (June 2018)

• “How Capitalism Breathes,” “How Capitalism Sells Itself,” and “How Capitalism Hides.” Heavy Feather Review. (Mar. 2018)

• “How Capitalism Causes My Small College to be Bought by a Wealthy University and I Lose My Job” and “Sitting in a Bed Bug Infested Hotel.” Indianapolis Review. (Oct. 2018)

• “Spell with a Coyote.” burntdistrict. (Oct. 2018)

• “History and its Bones.” Tampa Review. (Nov. 2018)

• “Indira Gandhi Speaks to Nixon.” Verse Daily. (Oct. 2018)

• “Late Capitalism Depression.” Jabberwock Review. (Jan. 2019)

• “Anti-Ode to Borders.” Zone 3. (Dec. 2019)

• “Visiting Anne Sexton’s Grave” and “To the Missing Girls of Ciudad Juarez.” Taos Journal of Poetry. (Jan. 2020)

• “Amongst Wolves” and “When He Comes Back Again.” Slipstream. (July 2020)

• “When the Rapist Dies, He is Loved.” Four Way Review. (Apr. 2020)

• “Before I Could Tell a Man I Was Raped.” The Hunger. (May 2020)

• “EMDR Therapy.” Bear Review. (Sept. 2020)

• “The Accidents” and “Watching Surviving R. Kelly.” South Dakota Review. (Sept. 2020)

• “Mermaid Spell.” Verse Daily. (Jul. 2020)

• “Metaphorical Ghosts.” Florida Review. (Jan. 2021)

• “Why Didn’t You Tell Anyone” and “Match Girl.” RHINO. (Aug. 2021)

• “If You Want to Survive.” Epiphany. (Jan. 2021)

• “Puberty.” Atticus Review. (Jun. 2021)

• “Finally” and “Isolating.” River Styx. (Jun. 2022)

• “Why the Earth Earned the Gendered Term Mother.” DASH. (Jun. 2022)

• “Boy Toy.” Blue Mountain Review. (Oct. 2022)

• “Venom Lessons.” Sixth Finch. (Nov. 2022)

• “Isolating.” Verse Daily. (Nov. 2022)
• “Triggered Memories: Grief.” Ninth Letter. (Jan. 2024).

• “Happy Birthday, Dear Rapist.” Connecticut River Review. (Aug. 2023)

• “Corpse Bride” and “Stigmata.” Live Nude Poems. (Aug. 2023)

• “The Hunter.” Rogue Agent. (Sept. 2023)

• “Time.” Thrush Poetry Journal. (July 2023)

• “Gaslit.” Cimarron Review. (Sept. 2023)

• “The Empath.” Burningword Literary Journal. (Oct. 2023)

• “The Carrion’s Haunting.” Hawaii Pacific Review. (Oct. 2023)

• “Echo and Narcissius.” Poetry South. (Jan. 2024)

• “Self Blame,” “Watching Ancient Aliens with My Rapist,” and “Processing Trauma While Thinking About My Childhood Boyfriend Who Killed Himself.” Chiron Review. (Jan. 2024)
• “Is it a Dream or Memory?” The Pinch. (Apr. 2024)