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