My chapbook, Corner Shrine, was the winner of the 2019 Backbone Press Chapbook Competition! Selected by Geffrey Davis, the book will be published in Fall 2020.

Honored to be a semi-finalist in the 2019 Frost Place Chapbook Competition.

RHINO Reviews 2.12 (June 2020): "Inland Empire by Leah Huizar"

A little video reading as part of the Wednesday Night Poetry series.

Happy to rep my childhood state in Mass Poetry's "Hard Work of Hope" newsletter (subscribe at the bottom of main page).

Live from the backyard: #RHINOsight2020 virtual release party for the new issue of RHINO.

So many thanks to PANK Magazine for nominating "Inequality Poem" for Best New Poets 2020!

RHINO Reviews 2.8 (February 2020): "The Music of Her Rivers by Renny Golden"
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Honored and encouraged that my manuscript was a semi-finalist for the 2019 Brittingham & Felix Pollak prizes in poetry.

A kind Honorable Mention nod from the 2019 Journal/OSU Press Wheeler Prize.

My poem, "Mandala of the Mountain Path," was a finalist for the 2019 Penn Review Prize. Gratitude to the editors and judge Lynn Levin!

Honored to have made the finalist list for the 2019 Hillary Gravendyk prize from Inlandia Books.

RHINO Reviews Vol. 2, No. 6 (December 2019): "The Many Names for Mother by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach"

Deepest gratitude to the editors of The Common for nominating my poem, "The God Structure," for a 2019 Pushcart prize.

Thrilled that my chapbook made the longlist for PANK's Little Books contest.

I recommended Sarah Gambito's Loves You for The Common's "Friday Reads" feature.

RHINO Reviews Vol. 2, No. 2 (August 2019): "Virgin by Analicia Sotelo"

My poetry book manuscript, "Universe Map," was a semifinalist for the 2019 Washington Prize from Word Works Books.

Many thanks to Sutra Press for naming my chapbook manuscript, "Corner Shrine," a finalist in their 2019 reading period.

Honored to have made the finalist list for the 2019 Sustainable Arts Award.

RHINO Reviews Vol. 1, No. 12 (May 2019): "Cape Verdean Blues by Shauna Barbosa"

My poetry book manuscript was a semifinalist for the 2019 Perugia Prize from Perugia Press.

RHINO Reviews Vol. 1, No. 9 (February 2019): "Invocation to Daughters by Barbara Jane Reyes"

Thrilled to begin a new position as of January 2019 as Program Coordinator at the Center for Writing and Public Discourse, Claremont McKenna College.

RHINO Reviews Vol. 1, No. 7 (December 2018): "Ghazal Cosmopolitan by Shadab Zeest Hashmi"
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November 2018: Many thanks to the Indianapolis Review for nominating my poem, "36 Text Messages, 16 Missed Calls," for a Pushcart Prize.
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RHINO Reviews Vol. 1, No. 6 (November 2018): "Quarry Cross by Robin Behn"

Fall 2018: excited to join the staff of The Adroit as a poetry reader.

RHINO Reviews Vol. 1, No. 4 (September 2018): "Tiller North by Rosa Lane"

RHINO Reviews Vol. 1, No. 3 (August 2018): "Show Her a Flower, a Bird, a Shadow by Peg Alford Pursell"

The Tishman Review Vol. 4, Issue 3 (July 2018), “An Interview with Chloe Martinez,” by Patrick A. Howell

April 28th, 2018: Talking poetry on A Taste of Ink Live with Tyehimba Jess, Patrick A. Howell, and Shadab Hashmi and C. Stene Duckworth

RHINO Reviews Vol. 1, No. 2 (July 2018): “I’m So Fine by Khadijah Queen” 

RHINO Reviews Vol. 1, No. 1 (June 2018): “Nightbloom & Cenote by Leslie Contreras Schwartz” 

The Rumpus, November 23rd, 2011, “You Tell Me Its Underpinnings” (review of Atlas Hour by Carol Ann Davis) 

"Apollo" nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize, by the Normal School! Thanks also to Naomi J. Williams for another nomination in 2010!