Common Disaster / Acre Books 2025

“Beauty of Loulan.” Poetry London. Forthcoming 2026.

“lüshi [the morning’s first mortar…].” Bennington Review. Forthcoming 2026.

“Mythology.” Oxford Poetry (shortlisted for the Oxford Poetry Prize). Issue 101 (2026): 50. Print.

“Portal.” Harpur Palate. April 29, 2026. Web.

“Wilderness.” Equatorial Literary Magazine. Issue 8. January 8, 2026. Web.

“Granada.” Lunch Ticket. December 12, 2025. Web.

“Babur Long for Kabul.” Lunch Ticket. December 12, 2025. Web.

“Adversary.” Lunch Ticket. December 12, 2025. Web.

“Time & Again.” Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine. October 31, 2025. Web.

“Geography.” Diode. October 23, 2025. Web.

“Marco Polo Returns.” Diode. October 23, 2025. Web.

“Qasida [solitary and stateless…].” Poetry Ireland Review. 146 (2025): 19.

“Common Disaster No. 3.” Shō Poetry Journal. No. 7 (2025): 78-79. Print.

“Ensenada.” Shō Poetry Journal. No. 7 (2025): 80. Print.

“I Read about Laika for the First Time.” Cincinnati Review. 22.1 (2025): 193. Print. (reprinted in Verse Daily, June 19, 2025)

“lüshi [our lemon groves…].” Poetry Society of America. April 23, 2025. Web.

“lüshi [from city gates…].” Poetry Society of America. April 23, 2025. Web.

“a supreme court opinion 24 June 2022.” The Massachusetts Review. Vol. 66, no. 1 (2025): 50. Print.

“The Amount of Death and Pain in the City Was Extraordinary.” The Massachusetts Review. Vol. 66, no. 1 (2025): 51. Print.

“Two-Headed Dog.” The Shore Poetry. Issue 25. March 21, 2025. Web.

“Winter Palace.” AGNI. No. 100 (2024): 139. Print.

“Cosmogony.” North American Review. Vol. 309, no. 3 (2024): 9. Print.

“Diorama.” Sixth Finch. July 15, 2024. Web.

“Kite.” Sixth Finch. July 15, 2024. Web.

“Islandic.” Gulf Coast. Vol. 36, issue 2 (2024): 65-66.

“Ghazal No. 5.” Diode. Vol. 17, no 1. March 28, 2024. Web.

“Boreal Time.” Diode. Vol. 17, no 1. March 28, 2024. Web.

“Thus I Take My Leave of the World.” The Cortland Review. February 1, 2024. Web.

“Aubade with Chicxulub Crater and Extinction.” The Florida Review. Vol. 47, no. 2 (2024): 18-19. Print.

“After Seeing My Patient’s CT Scan.” Puerto del Sol. Issue 58.2 (2023): 85-86. Print.

“After the Diagnosis.” Puerto del Sol. Issue 58.2 (2023): 87. Print.

“Incarnation.” Under a Warm Green Linden. Issue 17. December 21, 2023.

“Edit.” Tyger Quarterly. Issue 7. November 28, 2023. Web.

“Supremacy.” Tyger Quarterly. Issue 7. November 28, 2023. Web.

“Before Waking Up.” Tyger Quarterly. Issue 7. November 28, 2023. Web.

“Concerning a Crushed Temple.” Palette Poetry (finalist for the Sappho Prize). October 30, 2023. Web.

“Sand-People of Sutton-Hoo.” Bicoastal Review. Issue No. 2 (2023): 11. Print and web.

“Terminus.” Bicoastal Review. Issue No. 2 (2023): 12. Print and web.

“Ghazal No. 6.” Huizache. Issue 10 (2023): 6. Print.

“Grotto.” Huizache. Issue 10 (2023): 7-8. Print.

“My Care Is Like My Shadow in the Sun.” ONLY POEMS. October 29, 2023. Web.

“In Which Katherine Parr Is Nearly Arrested for Heresy & Crimes.” ONLY POEMS. October 29, 2023. Web.

“Near Miss.” ONLY POEMS. October 29, 2023. Web.

“I Like Her Not.” ONLY POEMS. October 29, 2023. Web.

“Ghazal No. 4.” ONLY POEMS. October 29, 2023. Web.

“Lady Godiva Device.” ONLY POEMS. October 29, 2023. Web.

“The Blue House: a Feng Shui Portrait.” Allium, A Journal of Poetry and Prose. September 20, 2023. Web.

“Dream of the Astrobleme.” Allium, A Journal of Poetry and Prose. September 20, 2023. Web.

“The Yijing: a pandemic apocrypha.” Hayden’s Ferry Review.  Issue 72 spring/summer (2023): 21-23. Print.

“Summer Palace.” Jet Fuel Review. Issue #25. April 25, 2023. Web.

“Common Disaster No. 1.” Figure 1. 7a. April 20, 2023. Web.

“Common Disaster No. 2.” CALYX Journal. Vol. 33, no. 3 (2023): 22. Print.

“Notes in Minor Key.” Honey Literary. Issue No. 5. February 14, 2023. Web.

“I Wonder as I Listen to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.” Honey Literary. Issue No. 5. February 14, 2023. Web.

“Bosworth Field.” Pleiades (Silences of War: Erasure within Conflict special folio). Vol. 42.2 & 43.1 (2023): 237. Print.

“Ghost.” Bracken. Issue X. January 31, 2023. Web.

“Kalends.” Bracken. Issue X. January 31, 2023. Web.

“Mary Magdalene.” swamp pink. No 1. January 25, 2023. Web.

“The Third Consort.” swamp pink. No. 1. January 25, 2023. Web.

“Katherine Howard Rehearses.” swamp pink. No. 1. January 25, 2023. Web.

“After My Daughters Tell Me They Are Learning How to Identify Animals at School.” Crab Creek Review (semi-finalist for the Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize). Vol. XXXV, no. 2 (2022): 13. Print.

“Forms of Water.” The Shore Poetry. Issue 16. December 21, 2022. Web.

“The Last Surgeon in Mariupol.” Southern Humanities Review (finalist for the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Honoring Jake Adam York). Vol. 55, no. 3&4 (2022): 155. Print.

“Ghazal No. 2.” Four Way Review. Issue 25. November 14, 2022. Web.

“Forest Sauvage.” Bear Review. Issue 9.1. October 28, 2022. Web.

“Ghazal No. 3.” The Los Angeles Review. October 17, 2022. Web.

“Still Life.” RHINO. 2022: 13. Print.

“I Have Seen My Death.” SWWIM Every Day. August 17, 2022. Web.

“The Shores of Babylon.” Tupelo Quarterly. Vol. VI.27. August 14, 2022. Web.

“Occurrence of a Dream Translated by Animals.” Salamander Magazine. No. 54 (2022): 140. Print.

“Song.” Love in the Time of Covid. May 31, 2022. Web.

“People Are Sad.” Dialogist. Week #21. May 27, 2022. Web.

“Madonna and Child.” The Baltimore Review. Spring. May 3 (2022): 200. Print and web.

“The Autobiography of Anne Boleyn.” Palette Poetry. April 25, 2022. Web.

“Afternoon Rounds.” Sugar House Review. No. 23 (2021): 56. Print.

“Witness.” Sugar House Review. No. 23 (2021): 57. Print.

“Sightseeing.” Bacopa Literary Review. 2021: 107. Print.

“[midmorning deluge….].” NOON: journal of the short poem. 19 (2021): 43. Print.

“[daybreak….].” Modern Haiku. Vol. 50.2 (2021): 21. Print.

“How to Make a Living.” Lammergeier Magazine. Issue 9. March 28, 2021. Web.

“Mariana Trench.” Lammergeier Magazine. Issue 9. March 28, 2021. Web.

“Pegasus.” Lammergeier Magazine. Issue 9. March 28, 2021. Web.

“I Dream of Animals During the Pandemic.” The Journal of the American Medical Association. 325(5) (2021): 495. Print and web.

“Topographies of the Silk Roads.” AGNI Online. May 28, 2025. Web.

“Poetic Friendships Part Three.” The Broadax with Rebekah Denison Hewitt and Angela Siew. April 21, 2026. Web.

“Ten Questions for M. Cynthia Cheung.” The Massachusetts Review. September 2025. Web.

“Interview with M. Cynthia Cheung.” Speaking of Marvels. May 2025. Web.

“Microfine: Interview with M. Cynthia Cheung.” Bicoastal Review. January 2024. Web.

“ONLY POEMS: Interview with M. Cynthia Cheung.” ONLY POEMS. October 2023. Web.

“The Shore Interview #23: M. Cynthia Cheung.” The Shore Poetry. December 2022. Web.

Shortlist / Oxford Poetry Prize / 2025

Winner / Robert H. Winner Memorial Award / Poetry Society of America / 2025

Semi-finalist / Gregory Djanikian Scholars in Poetry /The Adroit Journal / 2025

Finalist / Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest / 2024

Finalist / Alice James Award / 2024

Finalist / Wisconsin Poetry Series / University of Wisconsin Press / 2023

Finalist / Diode Chapbook Contest / Diode Editions / 2023

Finalist / Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize / Two Sylvias Press / 2023 

Finalist / Snowbound Chapbook Award / Tupelo Press / 2023

Finalist / Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Prize / Tupelo Press / 2023

Finalist / Sappho Prize / Palette Poetry / 2023

Semi-finalist / Kay Murphy Prize for Poetry / Bayou Magazine / 2023

Semi-finalist / Scotti Merrill Award / Key West Literary Seminar / 2023

Finalist / Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize / Two Sylvias Press / 2022

Finalist / Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Honoring Jake Adam York / Southern Humanities Review / 2022

Semi-finalist / Snowbound Chapbook Award / Tupelo Press / 2022

Semi-finalist / Black River Chapbook Competition / Black Lawrence Press / 2022

Semi-finalist / Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize / Crab Creek Review / 2022

Long list / Sappho Prize / Palette Poetry / 2022

Poetry fellow / Idyllwild Arts Writer’s Week / 2023

Featured reader / Mark Allen Everett Poetry Reading Series / University of Oklahoma Colleges of Arts and Sciences and the Department of English / Norman, OK / September 2026 (forthcoming)

Featured inaugural reader / Healing Narratives Series / University of North Florida Writing Program and Brooks College of Health / Jacksonville, FL / April 2026

Panelist / “Poetry at the Intersection of Science, Ethics, and Care” / AWP Conference / Baltimore, MD / March 2026

Panelist / “Myths and Motherlands: Migration and Multiplicity in the Chinese Diaspora” / AWP Conference / Baltimore, MD (virtual) / March 2026

Featured reader / Binghamton Center for Writers / SUNY Binghamton University / February 2026

Reader / Public Poetry Reading Series / Houston, TX (virtual) / January 2026

Featured reader / Gulf Coast Reading Series / Houston, TX / January 2026

Reader / Off Script: Stories from the Heart of Medicine / Baylor College of Medicine, UT Health, UH School of Medicine, Rice University / Houston, TX / November 2025

Opening reader for poet Randall James Tyrone / First Fridays Poetry Reading Series / Inprint / Houston, TX / November 2025

Reader / Poetry Ireland Review launch / Seamus Heaney Centre / Belfast, Ireland (virtual) / September 2025

Panelist / “Myths and Motherlands: Poems from the Chinese Diaspora” / Massachusetts Poetry Festival’s Bridging the Gap Series / Salem, MA (virtual) / April 2025

Guest speaker / University of Houston College of Medicine’s Narrative and Lyric Health elective / Houston, TX / October 2024

Michael E. DeBakey Medical Student Poetry Award / Baylor College of Medicine / 2021-present

Poetry co-editor / Pulse: voices from the heart of medicine /2024-present