Portfolio
Chapbooks:
Suitable for All Methods of Communication, Ghost City Press, Summer 2019
Navy News Service, Ghost City Press, Summer 2018
Fellowships & contests:
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellowship, 2021-22
Individual Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities (FY2020)
Finalist, Quarterly West 2020 Contest in Poetry, for “Apple Sonnet”
Second Prize Parent-Writer Fellowship to the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing for Summer 2019, sponsored by The Sustainable Arts Foundation, for “The Facts of Life”
Individual Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities (FY2019)
Semi-finalist, Heroes’ Voices Second Annual National Veterans Poetry Contest (2018)
Individual Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities (FY2018)
Finalist, SmokeLong Quarterly's Kathy Fish Fellowship (2017)
Semi-finalist, The Second Annual Brittany Noakes Poetry Award (2017), for "Doppler Effects"
Finalist, The Iowa Review's Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans (2016)
Finalist, Midwestern Gothic's Flash Fiction Series (summer 2015)
Honorable Mention, the Easy Street Great American Sentence contest (spring 2015)
Available online:
“Inherent Limitations of Scale” and “Four Degrees Celsius,” The Mid-Atlantic Review (January 2024)
“But Gravity Still Exists” and “Adam & the Void,” Couplet Poetry (Fall 2023)
“All I Ever Wanted Was,” Roi Faineant Press (July 2022)
“Giant Collision Theory,” Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art (August 2021)
“Someday the Sun Will Swallow Us,” the lickety~split (June 2021)
“Stampede,” Whale Road Review (June 2021)
“Rhinoceros,” “Mirror, with Questions,” “Domiciled,” “Catastrophe,” Bourgeon (May 2021)
“Apple Sonnet,” Quarterly West (March 2021)
“Cartography” and “History Lesson,” Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art (February 2021)
“Tilt,” sPARKLE + bLINK 108 (November 2020)
“Findings of Fact,” matchbook (December 2019)
“Mad Scientist (The Bucket Poem),” Rhodes Scholar (October 2019)
“Sea Monster” and “Great Bitter,” originally published in A Common Bond II: An Armed Services Arts Partnership Anthology and made available online by Bourgeon (September 2019)
“A Story Told Over Dinner,” originally published by Viewscreen in 2016, is available once again from Derelict (January 2019)
“The Functional Bloodlessness of Insects” and “Lunch with a Poet: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Story,” Nice Cage (Fall 2018)
“The Facts of Life,” Beltway Poetry Quarterly (October 2018)
"We Take The Bus," Redux (July 2018)
"A Turtle Carries its Home on its Back," Cease, Cows (May 2018)
"And So She Did," New Flash Fiction Review (October 2017)
"A Habitable Place," Jellyfish Review (August 2017)
"A Day or Two Before," The Writer's Guide (January 2017)
"Fruit," matchbook (December 2016)
"The Underdeveloped Character She's Been Spending Time As," HOOT Review (December 2016)
"All Saints' Day," District Lit (November 2016)
"Fishing the Chesapeake," Queen Mob's Tea House (June 2016)
"Examination," The Fem (June 2016)
"On Place: Jacquelyn Bengfort," kellyannjacobson.com (February 2016)
"Welcome to the Hope-and-Tragedy Era of Space Exploration," Fantasy Literature's Expanded Universe column (February 2016)
"Forgetting Superman," self-published on Fictionaut (February 2016)
"On Socks," self-published on Fictionaut (February 2016)
"Pansies for the Fall," velvet-tail (December 2015)
"Oxford Remembered: Duet amongst the Dreaming Spires," Rhodes Scholar (2015)
"How They Echo Under the Dome," Broad! (July 2015)
"All That's Left of Cuba," Midwestern Gothic (July 2015)
"Madeline and the Shark," matchbook (April 2015)
“Signs” and "Sail Fast the Violent Violet Seas," Noble / Gas Qtrly (January 2015)
Noble / Gas Qtrly closed in 2019. You can read these stories here.
"Brief Studies of Doomed Females," self-published on Fictionaut (September 2014)
"Imperatives," Luna Luna (August 2014; reprinted by Ravishly)
"The Mathematician," made available electronically by Storm Cellar (June 2014)
"Diptych for Saint Gertrude of Nivelles, Protectoress Against Mice, Rats, and Mental Illness," Tirage Monthly (May 2014)
Tirage Monthly has been defunct for several years. You can read this story here.
"Preparations," Postcard Shorts (December 2013)
Postcard Shorts has been defunct since 2018, and this short story—about a couple arguing about bringing a camera while dressing for a funeral, has apparently been lost to the sands of times.
"Sketch 1: Ristorante," Labyrinth (2006 - as Jaci Hanna)
Available in print:
“Before Duck Pond, Cow Alley,” “In the Pandemic, I Dream a Festival,” “Enough to Share,” “A Forest in Past Tense,” and “We Mean Well,” commissioned for An Ode to Sunday Suppers (August 2020)
“Great Bitter” and “Sea Monster,” A Common Bond II: An Armed Services Arts Partnership Anthology (Spring 2019)
“A Story Told Over Dinner,” Derelict Vol. 1 (Spring 2019)
“Souvenirs of Oman,” Poems from the Heroes’ Voices National Veterans Poetry Contest 2018 (Spring 2019)
"This is a Poem about Terror," District Lines vol. 5 (Spring 2018)
"The Swing Set" and "Prairie Story," Midwestern Gothic (Summer 2017)
"Sailors (Navy News Service 100331-03)," as a bookmark for AWP 2017 by Barnacle Mountain Press (February 2017)
"Dear Mr. Bortle," District Lines vol. 4 (February 2017)
"A Day or Two Before," The Writer's Guide (January 2017)
"A Spell for Salvation," Candlesticks & Daggers: An Anthology of Mixed-Genre Mysteries (December 2016)
"The Gun Season," Midwestern Gothic (July 2016)
"The Swing Set," "Fire Triangle," and "On the Brookland Bridge, Midwinter, Midday," Unrequited: An Anthology of Love Poems about Inanimate Objects, ed. Kelly Ann Jacobson (June 2016)
"We Take the Bus," Gargoyle (February 2016)
"Countdown (My Dear One)," Dear Robot: An Anthology of Epistolary Science Fiction, ed. Kelly Ann Jacobson (November 2015)
"Oxford Remembered: Duet amongst the Dreaming Spires," Rhodes Scholar (2015)
"In Her Stories There Were Never Any Cats," Magical: An Anthology of Fantasy, Fairy Tales, and Other Fiction for Adults, ed. Kelly Ann Jacobson and available in paperback & Kindle formats (December 2014)
"Panda Bears," District Lines vol. 2 (summer 2014)
"Chicken Bones," District Lines vol. 1 (summer 2013)
"The Mathematician," Storm Cellar vol. II no. 3 (March 2013)
Theatrical:
"The Desert," staged reading, Baltimore Playwrights Festival (March 19, 2013)
Contributor, "Under Covers: Gender Matters at USNA" (Spring 2006)
Contributor, "Under Covers: Gender Matters at USNA" (Spring 2005)