Publications

Recent Credits

• Woman with Crows, poetry chapbook published by Finishing Line Press, 2021
  
  
• “Canning Time,” poem, The Southern Poetry Anthology: Virginia, 2022
• “Counter Craft,” “Red in Truth,” “All Saints Day,” poems, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, 2022
• “My Uncle’s Matinee,” poem, Artemis, 2022
• “A Testament for Margery,” poem, The Alchemy Spoon: The Body Issue, 2021
• “Off the Path,” second place Karma Deane Ogden Memorial, PSV 2021
• “Uncle Allen,” third place Emerging Writers, West Virginia Writers, Inc., 2021
• “Scrunchie Jubilee,” poem, Artemis, 2021
• “Witnesses,” short story, Floyd County Moonshine, Winter 2021
• “The Lipstick Lesson,” HerStory at Radford University, 2021
• “Sarah in Winter” and “SEARCH CONTINUES FOR MISSING COED,” poems, Floyd County Moonshine, Summer 2020
• “A Petition for Merciful Salvage,” poem, Floyd County Moonshine, Winter 2020
• “If Icarus Had a Sister,” poem, HerStory at Radford University, 2020
• “Canning Time” and “The True Story of Eric’s Head,” poems, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, 2020
• “Song of the Old School,” poem, Artemis, 2018
• “Snowdrop in the Supermarket at Midnight,” poem, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, 2013
• “Wreckage,” short story, Still: The Journal, Winter 2013
• Angela Carter, reading recommendation, Deep Cuts: A Horror Anthology, 2013
• “PostScript,” poem, Virginia Education Bulletin, 2009
• “Cathryn Hankla” and “Nikki Giovanni,” Encyclopedia of Appalachia, 2006
• “Last Song of Black Creek,” short story, published in Appalachian Voice, 2006
• “Youngest Son,” poem, published in Sow’s Ear, Summer 2004

Presentations and Readings

• “Putting the ‘Person’ in the Personal Essay” and “Writing Poetry,” workshops for the Virginia Governor’s School, Radford University, June-July 2022
• Poetry reading, Spalding University Alumni Celebration at The Brown Hotel in Louisiville, Kentucky, May 2022
• “Online Poetry: The Virginia Women’s Poetry Collective,” reading and interview with fellow members for the  Stockbridge Library Online Poetry Series, May 2022
• Featured reader and moderator for National Poetry Month celebration at Pulaski County Library, April 2022
• Poetry reading and questions for The June Bug Center in Floyd, Virginia, April 2022
• Poetry workshop for National Poetry Month at Pulaski County Library, April 2022
• “Writing Across the Valleys: Sharing Creative Community Across Distance,” moderator and panelist for a group session and creative reading, Appalachian Studies Conference, West Virginia University, March 2022
• “Writing Women: Poetry by April J. Asbury and Angela Dribben,” reading at Radford University, March 2022
• Poetry Pop-Up at the Taubman Museum of Art, March 2022
• Featured Reader for “Virtual Poetry Reading & Open Mic,” Western Region of the Poetry Society of Virginia, Sept. 2021
• Guest presenter for “Sharing Identities and Building Relationships,” featuring George Ella Lyon and the National Writing Project, Sept. 2021
• Guest Speaker at Highland Summer Conference at Radford University, July 2017
• Speaker and chair for “Advocating Appalachia,” featuring guest Jeff Mann, NCTE 2016
• Featured author, Highland Summer Conference at Radford University, June 2016
• Speaker for “Creative Connections,” a session featuring George Ella Lyon, NCTE 2014
• “From Song Paths to Pit Crews: The Power of Research in the Writing of Sharyn McCrumb,” Appalachian Studies Conference (ASC) 2013
• New River Valley Voices Juried Reading, November 2012
• Featured Speaker, Poetry and Spoken Word Night at Barnes & Noble, 2012