Selected Publications & Honors

Print Publications

Yellow Medicine Review, “Lihilihi,” "ʻEleao," “Vocabulary Quiz” (Spring 2025)

Shō Poetry Journal, “Grouse Season” (No. 7)

The Kenyon Review, “Rabbit Holes” (Winter 2025)

Poet Tree Town, “Interlude”

Poetry Northwest, “Pō” (Vol. 19 No. 1)

Black Warrior Review, “APPARITIONAL” (Issue 50.2)

Moss, “Crescent Bar Resort, July 2004” (Vol. 8)

Cirque: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim, “Side Effects” (Vol. 13.2)

Online Publications

Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology, “Poem without an ending” (first published in Frozen Sea), “Ars Poetica”

Sixth Finch, “Aubade” (Spring 2025)

takahē magazine, “Papaʻa” (Issue 113)

Chapter House Journal, “ʻUla” (Winter 2025)

No Tokens, “The Lighthouse at Kalaupapa,” “Nocturne,” “After the Rain” (Issue 11)

Frozen Sea, “Poem without an ending” (Issue 3)

Forthcoming

Beloit Poetry Journal, “Erasure Contrapuntal with Lichen,” “Erasure Contrapuntal with Pink Floyd”

Third Coast, “Obsidian”

Interviews

Michigan Quarterly Review Online, “My Grief Is Not Haunting”: An Interview with Kalehua Kim

Michigan Quarterly Review Online, “You Have to Follow Your Own Music: Malia Maxwell in Conversation with Aria Aber”

Honors

MFA Thesis Award, Helen Zell Writers’ Program

Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry (judged by Robert Laidler)

Honorable Mention, Chapter House Journal Indigneous Poetry Prize

Nominee, Best of the Net 2024 (for “The Lighthouse at Kalaupapa” in No Tokens)

Helen Zell Writers’ Program Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center

Participant Scholarship, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference

Finalist, Poetry Northwest James Welch Prize

2nd Place Winner, Hopwood Graduate Poetry Award, University of Michigan (judged by Garrett Hongo, Donika Kelly, Leslie Harrison, and Jake Skeets)

Finalist, Black Warrior Review 2023 Poetry Contest

3rd Place, Urmy/Hardy Prize, Stanford University

2nd Place, Urmy/Hardy Prize, Stanford University