The Singing River

The Singing River is a full-length poetry manuscript currently under consideration at national presses. Many of the poems are set in and around the Southern landscape, and have been published in a variety of European and American venues, including The Southern Review, The Dark Mountain Journal, Horizon Review, The Independent on Sunday, The Island Review, Stirring, The Peauxdunque Review, Susurrus, and The May Anthologies.

The collection was named as a 2019 finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Writing Competition in poetry, a 2020 semifinalist for the Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize from Conduit Books, a 2020 finalist for the Raz-Shumaker Prize for Poetry from Prairie Schooner, and a 2020 semifinalist for both the Washington Prize and the Hilary Tham Capital Collection from The Word Works. Most recently, it was named as a 2021 semifinalist for the Lexi Rudnitsky Editors’ Choice Award from Persea Books, and a semifinalist for the 2022 Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize from The Journal.