Journals 2024
The Nature of Our Times (Anthology) “The Remains of Trees Sing Nothing of Triumph”
Journals 2022
About Place Journal, “I. When You Can Measure What You Are Speaking About,” “II. When You Cannot Express it in Numbers, “III. When You Cannot Measure It”
Journals 2021
Crazyhorse, “Until that Body Wakes Sir, Finds Itself in the Place It Thought It Was Meant to Be,” Indie Blu(e) Publishing; Through the Looking Glass: Reflecting on Madness and Chaos Within (Anthology), “Bedlam,” The Poet’s Billow, The Wrong Hours, Runner-Up Pangaea Prize, The Night Heron Barks, “Hunger” and “I Wish it Was Starry Night Over the Rhone,” Rogue Agent, “The World Insists It Can Be Nothing”
Journals 2020
Ovenbird Poetry, “When You Don’t Need Me,” Beltway Poetry Quarterly, “The Fire That May Never Come” & “Don’t Wait Until the Bitter End,” Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus (Anthology), “Only You Can Show Me Sleep,” The Journal, “The Alarmist”
Journals 2019
Indie Blu(e) Publishing; Smitten: Poetry By Women for Women (Anthology), “Impressions,” Bourgeon, “Hunger,” “We Are Not Tied to Our Body’s Weight on Earth” & “A Cartographer’s Confusion,” Yes Poetry, “Elegy for Someone Still Alive,” CALYX, “When What Has Left Returns,” Split Rock Review, “Last Line Storm Song,” The Cincinnati Review, “Unexpected Visitors,” Spoon River Poetry Review, “The Horse on the Island,” The American Journal of Poetry, “What Keeps Me Up at Night”
Journals 2018
Cream City Review, “Memory Is a Field That Stirs,” The Cortland Review, “Impressions,” The Los Angeles Review, “From the Deer Stand,” Glass: A Journal of Poetry, “Then it Became Another Night,” Whale Road Review, “Felling Trees,” Dancing Girl Press, “The Need for Hiding,” (Chapbook), spring 2018 (https://dulcetshop.myshopify.com/products/the-need-for-hiding-alison-palmer); Salt Hill Journal, “Exits”
Journals 2017
Best New Poets 2017 Nomination, “Flight,” nominated by Poet’s Billow; Pushcart Prize Nomination, “Flight,” nominated by Poet’s Billow; Columbia Poetry Review, “Light, on Its Own Accord,” River Styx, “The Woods”
Journals 2016
Stirring: A Literary Collection, “After the Blizzard, the Animals,” Bear Review, “Angle of Divergence,” Poet’s Billow, “Flight,” Atlantis Award
Journals 2015
Box of Jars, “On This Occasion,” “All That Would Be Buried,” “Though Vacant the World Goes on Revolving,” “And You Say the Heart of the Tree,” “Flight Is the Most Beautiful Word” & “Cusp,” Bellevue Literary Review, “The Trees Remind Me of Riots,” Cimarron Review, “And So I Have Come to Want” & “Swan (Various Forms),” Folio Literary Journal, “Undulatus Asperatus”
Journals 2014
Natural Bridge: A Journal of Contemporary Literature, “Nocturne,” Box of Jars, “Best to Ignore Those Other Worlds,” “Slick White of the Open” & “What to Tend to,” Poet’s Billow, “The Birds Are Bells”
Journals 2010
Best New Poets 2010, “Vertigo”
Journals 2009
FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, “Vertigo” & “Days Fallen Into”
Journals 2008
The Laurel Review, "Meditation on Sustainability"
Independent Artist Award (IAA) grantee, Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC), 2022
Semi-Finalist, 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, final judges: Rick Barot, Monica de la Torre & Patricia Spears Jones, 2021
Runner-Up, Pangaea Prize, The Wrong Hours, The Poet’s Billow, 2019 (Delayed)
Semi-Finalist, 2020 Hudson Prize, Black Lawrence Press, The Alarmist, fall 2020
Finalist, Full-length Open Reading Period, Sundress Publications, 2020
Finalist, Sexton Prize, Eyewear Publishing, The Alarmist, full-length, spring 2019
Quarter-Finalist, Nimrod Literary Awards: Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, 2018
Pushcart Prize Nomination, “Flight,” 2016
Best New Poets Nomination, “Flight,” 2016
Winner, Atlantis Poetry Award, Poet’s Billow, spring 2016
Finalist, Bermuda Triangle Prize and Pangaea Prize, Poet’s Billow, fall 2014
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, summer 2012
Top 50 Best New Poets 2010 as chosen by Claudia Emerson
Nominated for the AWP Intro Journals Project, 2007 and 2008
Finalist, The Laurel Review's Midwest Chapbook Series Award, 2007
Emma Howell Memorial Poetry Prize, Oberlin College, 2005
Coluccio Salutati Prize for Academic Excellence, Syracuse University in Florence, Italy, 2004