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2020: “A Mother’s Modulated Reckoning” in Leon Literary Review

2018-2019: “My Early Twenties” in Narrative

2017-2018: “Decomposition” in Western Humanities Review

2015: “My Mother’s Ghost” in the 2015 Lascaux Prize Review 

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