Finalist of the 2022 James Hurst Prize for Fiction. 

Excerpt: "I was the one who found him, bloody and pale, resembling the fertilized eggs that I cracked into the skillet by accident one morning."

The Sparrow and the Lily

2021 NCSU Undergraduate Fiction Award Winner. 2021 Finalist James Hurst Prize for Fiction, and Honorable Mention at the 2022 NC College Media Association. 

Excerpt: "Augustine Albemarle knew she was going to be burned at the stake."

"The Purification of Augustine Albemarle"

2020 Finalist James Hurst Prize for Fiction. Honorable Mention @ 2021 NC College Media Association.

Excerpt: "a man with a long, scraggly beard walk up to the empty refrigerator box that served as a pulpit…“May tonight we find God’s mercy!”

"Snakes"

"1. televised wrestling is the same thing as a soap opera 
	(the lines between reality and fantasy are blurred)"



"life lessons from my mother"

"all i ever need to know about a person / i can learn / from their refrigerator."


"fridge magnets"

"tears salt the overcooked chicken, / glistening on my plastic wrapped cookie, / when i realize that leaving is the only thing worse than staying."


"lunch lady"

"Love takes you quickly,
	grabbing your hand and
		whispering your favorite song 
			until you smile so hard
				your heart resents your lips."


"four letter words"

"A crazy old man / with nothing else / but his bison and red golf cart and / a promised feature / in the newspaper."
 


"Guessing"

Excerpt: "I was shaking after I said it and even though I knew I had just won a battle and not the war, I was still proud." 

M. Holladay Brantley

Selected work