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,” fall 2022

Journals 2021

Crazyhorse, “Until that Body Wakes Sir, Finds Itself in the Place It Thought It Was Meant to Be,” fall 2021; Indie Blu(e) Publishing; Through the Looking Glass: Reflecting on Madness and Chaos Within (Anthology), “Bedlam,” spring 2021; The Poet’s Billow, The Wrong Hours, Runner-Up Pangaea Prize, winter 2021; The Night Heron Barks, “Hunger” and “I Wish it Was Starry Night Over the Rhone,” winter 2021; Rogue Agent, “The World Insists It Can Be Nothing,” winter 2021

Journals 2020

Ovenbird Poetry, “When You Don’t Need Me,” winter 2020; Beltway Poetry Quarterly, “The Fire That May Never Come” & “Don’t Wait Until the Bitter End,” fall 2020; Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus (Anthology), “Only You Can Show Me Sleep,” summer 2020; The Journal, “The Alarmist,” winter 2020

Journals 2019

Indie Blu(e) Publishing; Smitten: Poetry By Women for Women (Anthology), “Impressions” fall 2019; Bourgeon, “Hunger,” “We Are Not Tied to Our Body’s Weight on Earth” & “A Cartographer’s Confusion,” summer 2019; Yes Poetry, “Elegy for Someone Still Alive,” summer 2019; CALYX, “When What Has Left Returns,” summer 2019; Split Rock Review, “Last Line Storm Song,” fall 2019; The Cincinnati Review, “Unexpected Visitors,” summer 2019; Spoon River Poetry Review, “The Horse on the Island,” summer 2019; The American Journal of Poetry, “What Keeps Me Up at Night” winter 2019

Journals 2018

Cream City Review, “Memory Is a Field That Stirs,” fall 2018; The Cortland Review, “Impressions,” summer 2018; The Los Angeles Review, “From the Deer Stand,” summer 2018; Glass: A Journal of Poetry, “Then it Became Another Night,” summer 2018; Whale Road Review, “Felling Trees,” spring 2018; 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,” spring 2018

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,” spring 2017; River Styx, “The Woods,” spring 2017

Journals 2016

Stirring: A Literary Collection, “After the Blizzard, the Animals,” fall 2016; Bear Review, “Angle of Divergence,” spring 2016; Poet’s Billow, “Flight,” Atlantis Award, spring 2016

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,” summer 2015; Bellevue Literary Review, “The Trees Remind Me of Riots,” spring 2015; Cimarron Review, “And So I Have Come to Want” & “Swan (Various Forms),” spring 2015; Folio Literary Journal, “Undulatus Asperatus,” spring 2015

Journals 2014

Natural Bridge: A Journal of Contemporary Literature, “Nocturne,” fall 2014; Box of Jars, “Best to Ignore Those Other Worlds,” “Slick White of the Open” & “What to Tend to,” fall 2014; Poet’s Billow, “The Birds Are Bells,” fall 2014

Journals 2010

Best New Poets 2010, “Vertigo,” fall 2010

Journals 2009

FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, “Vertigo” & “Days Fallen Into,” fall 2009

Journals 2008

The Laurel Review, "Meditation on Sustainability," winter 2008

  • 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