Jamaica

​Poetry Books

• Barrel Children, Main Street Rag Publishing Company, March 2016

• Review of Barrel Children

• Heard, Summer, 2018

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Poems

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• “Bolt,” “Heaven Tree,” “In Grand Mountain,” The Indianapolis Review, January 2018

• “Heard,” Rattle, Winter 2017

• “The Afterlife of Trees,” Connecticut River Review, Fall 2017

• “After a Breakup, I Think of Jamaica,” Connecticut River Review, Fall 2017

• “The Ghost of Elms,” StepAway Magazine, Fall 2016

• “Sky Beer,” Rattle’s Poet Respond Contest, Rattle Online, 2015

• “Gilbert,” Noctua Review, 2015

• “Acropolis Diner,” “Strippers,” The Main Street Rag, Spring 2015

• “Red Night,” StepAway Magazine, Fall 2014

• “Chapelton, Jamaica,” Callaloo, Spring 2014

• “The Exile Flies Home to Trout Hall, Jamaica,” Callaloo, Spring 2013

• “400 Years Later,” Noctua Review, Fall 2013

• “Seaview Gardens,” “Gil Town,” “Children with William Syndrome Have No Racial Biases,” African American Review, Winter 2013 

• “Barrel Children,” The Main Street Rag, Fall 2013

• “Ferry Street,” Folio, 2009

• “How I look?” Folio, 2008

• “In Trenchtown, Jamaica,” “May Pen,” “Letter to Jamaica,” Folio, 2007

• “Sestina to Patricia,” Folio, 2006

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Fiction

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• “Croon,” Folio, 2009

• “Mona,” Folio, 2008   

• “God’s Son,” The Connecticut Review, Spring 2007

• “Barrel Children,” Folio, 2007

• “Barrel Children,” Folio, 2007

• “The Letterer,” Folio, 2007

• “Tiny Locks,” Folio, 2006

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Writing Awards

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• Barrel Children, Finalist for 2017 Connecticut Book Award for best poetry book

• “Heard,” 1st place, Rattle Poetry Prize, September 2017

• “Heard”, Pushcart Prize Nomination, Rattle, Fall 2017

• “Sky Beer,” 1st place, Rattle’s Poets Respond Contest, August, 2015

• “Gilbert,” 1st place, Noctua Review Poetry Contest, Fall 2015

• “400 Years Later,” 1st place, Noctua Review Poetry Contest, Fall 2014

• “The Exile Flies Home to Trout Hall, Jamaica,” 1st place, Folio Poetry Contest, 2009

• “Chapelton, Jamaica,” 1st place, Folio Poetry Contest, 2008

• “Seaview Gardens,” 1st place, Folio Poetry Contest, 2007 

• “Mona,”Folio Fiction Contest, 1st place, 2008

• “Mona,” 1st place, SCSU Fiction Contest, 2008

• “God’s Son,” 1st place, CSU Connecticut Review Non-Fiction Contest, 2006

• “Riverman,” 1st place, SCSU Fiction Contest, 2007

• SCSU Poetry Contest, 2nd Place, 2007

• “Croon,” 2nd Place, CSU Connecticut Review Fiction Contest, 2008