Reviews
Ode to the Migraineur: A Review of Hemicrania by Amanda Fields, Literary Mama, July/August, 2025
Poetry, Pain, and the Power of Expression in Therese Gleason’s Hemicrania by Bridget Rexhausen, New Ohio Review, Summer 2025
Not Yet. 32 Poems Contributor’s Marginalia responding to Elegy for a Wedding Processional by Matthew Roth, 32 Poems, Volume 19.2, Winter 2021
2025
2025 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from the New England Poetry Club for Hemicrania (Chestnut Review Chapbooks, 2024), judged by Matthew E. Henry
The Best of Halfway Down the Stairs, 2005-2025, “Migraineur.” September 2025 (originally published in 2020)
The Best of Halfway Down the Stairs, 2005-2025, “Anxiety.” September 2025 (originally published in 2020)
Longlist, 2025 Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fiction, “Motherlode,” Cincinnati Review miCRo series, 2024.
2024
Pushcart Nomination (essay) from On the Seawall for “When I Get Botox I Think of Bees,” 2024
Best-of-the-Net nomination (fiction) from Halfway Down the Stairs for “Night Swimming,” 2024
Finalist, 2024 Codhill Press Guest Editor Series, Driveway (full-length poetry manuscript)
2023
Best-of-the-Net nomination (poetry) from museum of americana for “Heirloom,” 2023
Selection, Chestnut Review Chapbook Series, Hemicrania, 2024
Semi-Finalist, Airlie Book Prize, 2023, Driveway (full-length poetry manuscript)
2022
Finalist, Wolfson Press Chapbook Contest 2022
Honorable Mention, Frank O’Hara Prize, from The Worcester Review for “Tether,” 2022
Honorable Mention for the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from New England Poetry Club for Matrilineal, 2022
Inclusion of three poems, Eve’s Kitchen, The Girl Who Cried Wolf, Puerta del Perdón, in the New England Poetry Club Prize Winners’ Anthology, 2022
Finalist, Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest, and International Publication Prize for “Worst That Could Happen,” 2022
2020
Best-of-the-Net Nomination (poetry) from Halfway Down the Stairs for “Migraineur,” 2020
Pushcart Nomination (poetry) from Halfway Down the Stairs for “Anxiety,” 2020
2006
Co-Winner, South Carolina Poetry Initiative (at the University of South Carolina) Chapbook Competition, for Libation (2006), judged by Kwame Dawes
1998
Wilhelmina Barrett Award for Poetry, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1998
Therese Gleason 