Papers and Publications:
“Silence is Spoken Here: Silence as Theme and Technique Illustrated Through the Landscapes of Annie Dillard, Terry Tempest Williams and Maurice Manning.” (Critical Thesis) Spalding University, Fall, 2012, Spalding University
“Red Moon Rising: The Coming of Age of a Middle-Aged Woman” (Creative Thesis) Spalding University, Spring 2014, Spalding University
“Symbolism of Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge” by Nancy McCabe. (Critical Essay) 2013, Spalding University
“The Rhythm of Life and Death” A critical analysis of Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch. (Critical Essay) 2013, Spalding University
“Character Builds Place Builds Character,” in Alabama Afternoons by Roy Hoffman (Critical Essay) 2013, Spalding University
“Go Figurative,” in William Gay’s I Hate to See that Evening Sun Go Down. (Critical Essay) 2013, Spalding University
“The Figurative Language of Fraser’s Origami” (Critical Essay) 2013, Spalding University
“Fierce Attachments, Vivian Gornick” (Critical Essay) 2013, Spalding University
“The Structure of Dualistic Thinking: A critical look at Keeping Faith; A Skeptic’s Journey Among Christian and Buddhist Monks, by Fenton Johnson.” (Critical Essay) 2013, Spalding University
“Setting the Tone in Once More to the Lake by E.B. White” (Critical Essay) 2012, Spalding University
“Crews’ Sense of Place” (Critical Essay) 2012, Spalding University
“Black White and Jewish, by Rebecca Walker” (Critical Essay) 2013, Spalding University
“The Persona of bell hooks” (Critical Essay) Fall 2012, Spalding University
“Amplification in A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel” (Critical Essay) 2012, Spalding University
“Structure of the Quest: Journeying with Alice Walker and John McPhee” (Critical Essay) 2012, Spalding University
“Coming of Age with Sister Salty/Sister Sweet by Shannon Kring Biro and Natalie Kring”
(Critical Essay) 2012, Spalding University
“Review of George Ella Lyon’s Don’t You Remember? A Memoir” (Review) Now & Then
(Vol.24 No.1, 2008)
“Review of Sue Eisenfeld’s Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal” (Review) Blue Lyra Review http://bluelyrareview.com/issue-4-3-fall-2015/
“Review of Cat Pleska’s Riding on Comets: A Memoir” (Review) Appalachian Heritage, 2014
“Review of Carrie Mullins’ Night Garden” (Review) forthcoming in Appalachian Heritage, 2017
“Red Moon Rising” (Creative Nonfiction) The Louisville Review (Vol.76, Fall 2014)
“Hog Killin’” (Creative Nonfiction) The Notebook (No.2-Spring 2014)
“Lust” (Poetry) Kudzu Literary Journal (Spring, 2012)
“Being the Judge’s Wife” (Fiction) Kudzu Literary Journal (Spring, 2012)
“Ghost” (Poetry) Still: The Journal, 2012
“What I Did to Guilt” (Poetry) Remember September (Fall, 2011)
“The Healer” (Poetry) Motif, Come What May: An Anthology of Writings about Chance (Vol. 2, 2010)
“Apathy” (Poetry) Motif, We All Live Downstream; Writings about Mountaintop Removal (Vol. 1, 2009)
“Blessed and Broken” (Poetry) ALCALines: Journal of the Assembly on Literature and Culture of Appalachia (2010)
“Common Ground” (Fiction) Minnetonka Review (Issue Three, Winter 2009)
“The Calling” (Creative Nonfiction) Still: The Journal, 2009
“Balls” (Creative Nonfiction) Nantahala Review, 2009
“Cumberland Gap” (Poetry) Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers (2008)
“Blackberries” (Creative Nonfiction) Standing on the Mountain: Voices of Appalachia (Dec. 2006)
“Cumberland Gap” (Poetry) Standing on the Mountains: Voices of Appalachia (Dec. 2006)
“Stains” (Fiction) Blink: Flash Fiction Before You Can Blink an Eye (2006)
Awards and Scholarships for Writing:
Scholarship, Spalding University, 2011
Scholarship to attend Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, 2014 (Largest Literary Nonfiction Conference in the U.S.)
Chosen as one of twenty participants to workshop full length manuscript-2014 Mayborn
“The Bobcat” (Creative Nonfiction) Tennessee Mountain Writers 1st Place, Inspirational, 2015
“Vessel” (Poetry) Honorable Mention 2013 George Scarbrough Prize, Mountain Heritage Literary Festival
“Redwoods” (Poetry) Green River Writers, 2nd Place, 2011
“Viagra” (Poetry) Green River Writers, 3rd Place, 2011
“What I Did to Guilt” (Poetry) 1st Place, Kudzu Literary Journal, 2009
“White Horse” (Poetry) Honorable Mention, Kudzu Literary Journal, 2009
“Common Ground” (Fiction) 1st Place, Tennessee Mountain Writers, 2008, and
Sue Ellen Hudson Excellence in Fiction Award
“Recycling” (Creative Nonfiction) Honorable Mention, Women Who Write, 2008
“The Equator” (Fiction) Literary Leo, 2nd Place, 2008
“Balls” (Creative Nonfiction) Alabama Writer’s Conclave, 2007, 2nd Place
“The Calling” Emma Bell Miles Award for Essay, 2006, 1st Place,
Wilma Dykeman Award for Essay, 2008, 1st Place
“Blackberries” Betty Gabehart Prize for Creative Nonfiction, 2006, 1st Place
Presentations and Panels:
Southern Appalachian Writer’s Cooperative Panel Discussion, Appalachian Studies Conference, 2012
Gap House Writer’s present “How to Form a Writing Group and Increase Publication Success”, Tennessee Mountain Writer’s Conference, 2010
Old Soul Medicine Crow 