POEMS & PROSE
2025
POETRY: “We Have the Stars.” Shortlisted Finalist, Molecules Poetry Prize. Judge: Imtiaz Dharker, February 2025.
POETRY: “A Viewing (Morning at the Museum)” and “Credulous.” Stony Thursday Book 20. Ed. Victoria Kennefick, Winter 2024-25.
2024
POETRY: “Fossil.” Poetry in the Park public installation series, Fitzgerald’s Park, Cork City. Curated by Bernadette Gallagher, in coordination with Cork City Libraries, July 2024.
POETRY: “Hectocotylus.” Channel magazine. Issue 8. Ed. Cassia Gaden Gilmartin, May 2024.
2022–2023
POETRY: “suppose a tomato is a fruit,” “Five,” “Zionskirchplatz.” Stony Thursday Book 19. Ed. Christodoulos Makris, Oct 2023
PROSE: “On Memory, Aliveness, and the Uncontainable” + POETRY: “what does not return.” Trumpet/Poetry Ireland 12. Ed. Will Keohane, July 2023
POETRY: “No More Herzog (An Exorcism).” Abridged 0-93 / “Terminus” Issue, Spring 2023
POETRY: ‘‘when they ask for proof.” Like Flyering for the Revolution: VERVE Anthology of Protest. Birmingham, England: Verve Poetry Press, 2023
POETRY: “Life isn’t all unsolved murders by the sea.” Spilling Cocoa Over Martin Amis, March 1, 2023
CREATIVE NONFICTION: “Sex, Hair, Renting.” Locker Room Talk: Woman in Private Spaces. Minneapolis: Spout Press, 2023
POETRY: “Michael J. Fox at the Russian Tea Room” and “‘The Day I Learned Michael Douglas Likes Linguine.” The Grand Journal: Issue 5, Winter 2023
POETRY: “The Vampyropod waits in a drawer” and other poems, The Grand Journal (online edition), January 21, 2023
POETRY: ‘‘The Archivist of Cathedral Hill.” Spilling Cocoa Over Martin Amis, January 19, 2023
POETRY: “never say never (1650 F).” Abridged 0-92/ “The Violet Hour” Issue, Winter 2022
POETRY: “Not Like the Other Fish.” Banyan Review: Winter 2022 (Special Awards Issue)
POETRY: “They’re Not What You Expect.” Banshee: Issue 13, Spring/Summer 2022
POETRY: “Icarus the Woman / Torrent de l’Olla.” Belfield Literary Review: Issue 2, Spring 2022
READINGS + WORKSHOPS
Founding Member, Late Night Diners (Poetry Collective)
Featured Reader (+ Kao Kalia Yang & Alison McGhee), Spout Press Celebration, Hook & Ladder Theater, Minneapolis, Aug 27 2025
Featured Reader, Lime Square Poets, Limerick, Ireland / October 6, 2022
Poet / Participant, Gallery Press Emerging Poets Workshop, November-December 2022 / Convener: Grace Wilentz
Poet / Participant, Stinging Fly Summer School, July 2022 / Convener: Stephen Sexton
Poet / Participant, Cúirt Festival: Masterclass with Colette Bryce & “Lessons in Kindess” Workshop with Dani Gill, April 2023
“we have the stars”
finalist, 2025 molecules Poetry Prize
Imtiaz Dharker, Poet & 2025 Molecules Prize Judge
“what does not return”
Third Place, 2021 York Poetry Prize
Kim Moore, Poet & 2021 York Prize Judge:
“‘This poem sends you back over and over again to the title, which rings through the whole piece like a struck bell. I found the juxtaposition of the seemingly insignificant and the life-changing very moving, and the use of form and the dwindling of the lost things, or the unreturned to those two smallest and yet largest of words at the end; very poignant.”
“when they ask for proof”
Third Place, 2023 VERVE Poetry FESTIVAL COMPETITION (On THE theme of “protest”)
Kim Moore, Poet & 2023 Verve Prize Judge: “A poem that manages to span hundreds of years to examine the trauma caused by the Spanish Inquisition, and how that has played out and continues to play out through generations seems like an impossible task, but somehow this poet has pulled it off. We lurch back and forwards in time, from modern-day bureaucracy to the terror of leaving your home and your country, from the acceptable forms of proof contained in forms and language, to proof that is felt but cannot be held in your hand.”
“comorbidities” | third place, 2021 fingal poetry priZe
Adam Wyeth, Poet & 2021 Fingal Prize Judge:
“The poem which takes third prize is a piece that is striking both for its singular and strange syntax and psychological enquiry. It’s a poem that brings into focus the everyday domestic detritus, the leftover stuff from our lives . . . turning these invisible sweepings into a probing and moving meditation on life and death. It’s a poem for me that makes room for the lost aspects of life, literal, metaphorical, personal and impersonal. . . it’s this combination where the true heart of the poem transcends. . . echoing I think critic Harold Bloom’s sentiments when he says ‘strong poems are always omens of resurrection. The dead may or may not return but their voices comes alive.”
2025 MOLESCULES POETRY prize FINALIST
2022 BRIDPORT prize SHOrtlist
2022 buzzwords poetry competition, highly commended: “history lessons (in the seams)”
2022 banyan poetry prize (Us), Semi-finalist: “not like the other fish”
Longlists
2025 bridport poetry prize
2023 fish poetry prize (judge: billy collins)
2023 Mslexia poetry pamphlet competition (judge: imtiaz dharker)
“ABSOLUTE POWER” | SECOND Place, 2022 GOLDSMITH Poetry Prize
Vona Groarke, Poet & 2022 Goldsmith Prize Judge
“Absolute Power” is an eco-feminist romp through unapolegetic rivers, obstructionist frogs, our carnivorous & compassionate instincts, divine waters & quiet epiphanies.
Will Over Reflex: Poetry & Prose. KGB Literary Magazine, Issue 4, August 5, 2019