Our Publications

Jay

Publications

  • “Autumnkraftwerk” in Okay Donkey (2023, Online)
  • “Dracula in the Everglades” in sinking city (2023, Online)
  • “dual absence” in Barely South Review (2023, Online)
  • “Sibyl” in Common Ground Review (2024, Online)
  • “Second Declension Nouns” in The Journal (2024, Online)
  • “The Headless Horseman Speaks” in Peatsmoke Journal (2024, Online; Nominated for a 2025 Pushcart Prize)
  • “My Students Try to Avoid Referring to Me in the Third Person” in Plumwood Mountain Journal‘s Queering Ecopoet(h)ics Issue (2024, Online)
  • “After Tragedy at the Rodeo” and “I realize I am older than Scott Pilgrim” in Rattlesnake (Summer 2024, Print)
  • “Skate God” and “Process =/= Outcome” in Door Is A Jar (Forthcoming Winter 2024, Print and Online)
  • “The Ruins (2008) Rewrite” and “The Discobolus” in nw{p} (2024)
  • “I realize I am older than Scott Pilgrim” anthologized in The Quarter(ly) Journal’s W31RD issue (Winter 2024, Print)
  • “An Invitation to Janus” in Libre (Winter 2024, Online)
  • “Gender as III of Cups” in porkbelly press (2025, Print)
  • “You ask me how I’ve been since May” in the menu at Foundation (Fortcoming 2025, Print)
  • “In Vienna” in Zoetic Press’s Alphanumeric Podcast and NonBinary Review (Winter 2024, Online and Audio)
  • Three Poems in Kestrel (Print)
  • “In a Rural Cemetery,” “The Mummies of St. Michael’s,” and “Polyamory Sonnet,” Orca Issue 20 (2025, Print)
  • “Inheritance” in The Freshwater Review Issue 28 (2025, Print)
  • “On Finding Faithlessness.” forthcoming in Poetry South (Print)
  • “The Ace of Pentacles Responds,” “For City Pigeons,” and “In Vienna” in Tofu Ink (2025, Print)
  • “Over Budapest, Winter.” in County Lines vol. 13 (2025, Print)
  • “Vesuvio” in the Santa Fe Literary Review (Forthcoming)
  • “To Angels.” in Main Street Rag (Forthcoming)
  • “The Headless Horseman Sums Up” in The Quarter(ly) (Forthcoming)

Awards and Nominations

  • Finalist, Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship (2025)
  • Fulbright Austria United States Teaching Assistantship (USTA) (2024 – 2025)
  • Hawthornden Foundation Scholarship: Anahid Nersessian on Sonnets at the Academy of American Poets (2025)
  • Pushcart Prize Nomination for “The Headless Horseman Speaks” in Peatsmoke (2025)
  • Finalist, Dorianne Laux Prize in Poetry (2024)
  • People’s Choice Award in the Ars Poetica I: A Juried Exhibition at the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum (2023)
  • Fellow of the Berlin Seminar of German Literary Institutions (GLIB) (2023)
  • Finalist, North Carolina Poetry Prize (2021)

Exhibitions

Interviews