University of Oklahoma.
Economic Development Institute (2018)
McNeese State University. Lake Charles, LA
Masters of Arts: English (2011)
AWARDS, HONORS, and SCHOLARSHIPS
Mississippi Top 50 Under 40, 2017, Mississippi Business Journal
Washington County Top 20 Under 40, 2017, Delta Democrat-Times
Mississippi Development Authority Ambassador, 2017
Ray and Jimmy Heidel Economic Development Leadership Award, 2017, MEDC
Leadership Washington County, 2016
Main Street Rag Chapbook Contest Winner, 2012
Best New Poets, Nominated, 2011
AWP Intro Journal Project, Nominated, 2011
Lynn and Richard Reid Scholarship, McNeese State University, 2010
Doré Graduate Writing Scholarship, McNeese State University, 2009, 2010, and 2011
Doré Graduate Teaching Scholarship, McNeese State University, 2010 and 2011
POETRY PUBLICATIONS:
Fantasies of Men (Forthcoming 2012), Main Street Rag
Anthologies:
Word Riot 10th Anniversary Anthology (Forthcoming), “Lefty’s Lament”
Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors (Southeast Missouri State Univ. Press), "Furlough, May '99,"
and "In the Salmon's Eyes"
Testing the Waters (Old Books Anthology), “Noodling,” “End of Summer,”
Broadsides:
Yellow Flag Press: “Blade and the Blood” (2012), “Borrowing Night From Day” (2012), “End of
Days” (2011), “Playing War” (2011), “Homecoming Game” (2011), “A Mile Off the Highway”
(2010), “Once in Mississippi the Moon was Hidden” (2010), “Prayer to the Neon God” (2009),
“Proportions of Man” (2009)”
In a Different Language: “Freshman Year” (2010)
Journals:
Rougarou, “End of Season,”
Swamp Lily Review, "Borrowing Night From Day" (Reprint) and "Blood and the Blade" (Reprint)
The Pinch, “Crossing,” Issue 32.2
“American Ghazel,” “My First War,” The Myth of the Fighting Cocks,” July 2011
Word Riot, “Your Name Repeats Like Marching Elephants,” Oct. 2010
You Must Be This Tall to Ride, “A Mile Off the Highway,” Summer 2010
The Arena, “Catfish, Big as Volkswagens,” “The Day I Ignored God,” “Christmas as Their House,”
2009
Blue Earth Review, “Once in Mississippi the Moon was Hidden,” “Returning Home on First Leave,” Spring 2009
DecomP, “Borrowing Night From Day,” Nov. 2008
(2007), “If You Tell It Will Never Come True” (2007)
FICTION PUBLICATIONS: