Poetry & Fiction:

50 Give or Take (“Washing Up”), Amelia, Antithesis Journal, Barrow Street (“The Missed Period”), Bogg, Cider Press Review, Canberra Times, Cimarron Review (FORTHCOMING), Concho River Review, Connecticut Review, Cordite (“Ready or Not”), Diner, Dogwood, Exit 13, The Gallatin Review, Global City Review, Grieve Writing Competition Anthology, Gulf Stream, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Hidden Oak, Illya’s Honey, The Literary Review, The Madison Review, Mascara Literary Review’s “Resilience” Anthology, Meanjin (“The Hermit”), Mississippi Review, Negative Capability, New Delta Review, New Zoo Poetry Review, Old Crow Review, Overland (“Spare Key”), Poetica Christi’s “Joy in the Morning” Anthology, Portland Review, PRISM international, The Saturday Paper (“Ready” and “Lucky”), Scope (FAWQ), The Sow’s Ear, Sierra Nevada College Review, Skidrow Penthouse, Slippery Elm (“The Seawall”), Slipstream, Southerly Journal, Spillway, Spoon River Poetry Review, Sulphur River Literary Review, Sunstone, Waywiser Press, Whiskey Island Magazine, The William and Mary Review, and York Literary Review.

 

Essays, Articles, & Creative Nonfiction:

Hospitality – Island Magazine – Shortlisted for the Island Nonfiction Prize 2021

I Couldn’t Fly Home for My Father’s Death, So His Ashes had to Fly to Me – The Guardian

Stop Calling Teens Lazy, Useless, and Entitled If You Won’t Hire Them – Sydney Morning Herald

“Me Time” Is a Scam – Romper

How We Can Protect Women by Empowering Boys – Scary Mommy

How 3 Cats Are Helping Me Teach My Sons about Consent – Scary Mommy

When Early Menopause and Life Events Strike at the Same Time – Motherwell Magazine

The Gentleman’s Guide to Sharing a Sidewalk with Women – The Good Men Project

How I Use Media to Talk Gender Equality with My 5 Sons – Women’s Agenda

Kids at Different Schools? 9 Tips to Make It Easier – Bub Hub

COVID-19: 12 Tips to Working at Home with Kids – Bub Hub

Shipping & Handling Costs – Bending Genres Journal

 

Interviews:

Featured Guest – Karen Hollands’ Liminal Spaces, November 2022

“Writers at Work, Part One: Contributors Share their Thoughts on Labor, Writing, and the Current Climate” – Portland Review, May 2020

 

Podcasts:

Featured Guest – Raising feminist sons in the age of #MeToo – All Men Can, Episode 8, August 2018

 

Awards:

• Semi-finalist for the Washington Prize at The Word Works (2022)
• Highly Commended in the Heroines / Joyce Parkes Writing Prize for Poetry (2022)
• Longlisted for the Lane Cove Literary Awards in poetry for “Wildlife” (2021)
• Shortlisted for the Island Nonfiction Prize for “Hospitality” (2021)
• Commended in the Maureen Freer (FAWQ) Literary Competition for “The Birth of Echo” (2020)
• Commended in Poetica Christi’s “Joy in the Morning” Poetry Competition for “How You Begin” (2020)
• Finalist for the Cider Press Review Book Award (2019)
• Longlisted for the Seventh Annual Bangor Poetry Competition for “Weatherproofing” (2019)
• Shortlisted for the A3 Review’s June Contest: Carpentry & Home Economics theme for “The Handyman” (2019)
• Semi-finalist for the Brittingham Prize in Poetry at University of Wisconsin Press (2019)
• Finalist for the Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry at Snake Nation Press (2018)
• Finalist for the Cider Press Review Book Award (2018)
• Finalist for the Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize (2018)
• Winner of the Lifeline Award in the Hunter Grieve Writing Competition (2018). (You can read / listen to my poem, “The Skeleton”, at 50:31 (read by a volunteer).)
• Finalist for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize (2018)
• Finalist for the Dogwood Literary Prize (2018)
• Winner of the Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award (2017). (“Manchester”)
• Finalist in the Hunter Grieve Writing Competition (2017)
• Finalist for the Slippery Elm Poetry Contest for “Manchester” (2017)
• Semi-finalist for the Cider Press Review Book Award (2017)
• Finalist for the Cider Press Review Book Award (2015)
• Semi-finalist for the Brittingham Prize in Poetry at University of Wisconsin Press (2015)
• Shortlisted for the Albury City Short Story Award for “Learning Another Language” (2013)
• The Australia Council for the Arts Emerging Writer grant – fiction (2011)
• Finalist for the Idaho Prize for Poetry at Lost Horse Press (2010)
• Semi-finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize at Waywiser Press (2009)
• Semi-finalist for the Brittingham Prize in Poetry at University of Wisconsin Press (2009)
• The Australia Council for the Arts Emerging Writer grant – poetry (2005)
• W.S. Merwin Poetry Fellowship at The Catskill Poetry Workshop (2004, selected by Carol Frost)
• Runner-up in the Mississippi Review Prize for Poetry (2004, selected by Angela Ball)
• Shortlisted for the KSP Young Writer-in-Residence fellowship (2003)
• Finalist in The Sow’s Ear Poetry Contest (2003, selected from 2000 entrants)
• Herbert Rubin Award for Creative Writing (1997, NYU)
• Thomas Wolfe Memorial Poetry Award (1995, NYU)

Conferences:

• The Catskill Poetry Workshop (full fellowship)
• Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
• Port Townsend Writers’ Conference / Centrum
• Wollongong Poetry Workshop