Publications & Awards
Celebrating achievements and literary contributions
Awards & Honors
- 3rd Place – Saint Paul Almanac's 2025 Poetry Now, Poetry Forever Contest – "Upon learning that an angler fish is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand"
- 1st Place – table//FEAST's 2025 Nano & Micro Contest for Women Writers – "Winter Sleeps on My Doorstep"
- 2024 Best of the Net Nominations – "July at the End of the World" (Exposition Review); "Like Has a Surprise for You" (After Happy Hour Review)
- Finalist – 2024 Princemere Poetry Prize – "The Ovary is the Cathedral"
- 1st Place – Sad Girl Diaries 2023 Fall Poetry Contest – "Friendship" (after Chen Chen)
- 2023 Pushcart Prize nominations – "Somewhere, We Bare Our Breasts and Live" (engine(idling) and "I Want You Like a Whole Pack of Cigarettes in One Night" (Ink & Marrow Lit)
- 2023 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations – "In Which I Look Both Ways Before Getting into Speeding Cars" (Gnashing Teeth Publishing)
- 1 of 10 poets selected for Mississippi Valley Poets & Writers' Richfield Nature Area Poetry Walk – "Little Prayer" (after Danez Smith) is on a plaque in Richfield Lake Park through August 2025
- 2nd Place – 2023 Stone Gathering Award via NFSPS – "I Don't Want a Fairy Tale"
- Finalist – The Good Life Review's 2023 Honeybee Prize – "Obit (Strapless Dress)"
- Honorable Mention – 2023 Stephan A. DiBiase Poetry Prize – "It Was Fall and It Was London for Just One Night"
- Top 50 Finalist – 2023 & 2022 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards
- 1st Place – 2022 John Calvin Rezmerski Memorial Grand Prize in The League of MN Poets' 37th Annual Poetry Contest – "Morning Song"
- 2022 Pushcart Prize nomination – "This Is My Art and It Is Dangerous" (Reed Magazine)
- Longlist Finalist – Palette Poetry's 2022 Sappho Prize
- Honorable Mention – 2021 Heart Poetry Award – "Mind Wanting More" (published in HEART, December 2021)
Selected Publications
- "Booked a Three-Night Stay in Infinity," Gather Poets, June 2025
- "I Have Spoiled This Body We Once Shared," wildscape., Issue 2, April 2025
- "I Trigger My Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo," Full House Literary, Featured Creator, April 2025
- "In the Garden of Girlhood" and "On This Fresh Morning in the Broken World," The Wild Umbrella, October 2024
- "July at the End of the World," Exposition Review, Vol. IX: POP!, July 2024
- "The Mysterious Human Heart in Texas," Zero Readers, March 2024
- "Excavation," Verdant, February 2024
- "When a Witch Desires Something That is Not Hers, She Will Slip it Into Her Glove," Sage Cigarettes Magazine, September 2023
- "Obit (Strapless Dress)" (after Victoria Chang), The Good Life Review, Micro Monday segment, August 2023
- "Use This Poem to Dry Your Eyes," Anti-Heroin Chic, Issue 32, August 2023
- "In Which I Look Both Ways Before Getting into Speeding Cars," Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Poem of the Day, April 2023
- "Hot Girl Shit," The Aurora Journal, Winter 2023 Volume, February 2023
- "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart," Watershed Review, Volume 45, Number 02, Fall 2022
- "I Only Want Him When He Smells Like Whiskey & Camels" & "What The Aftermath Might Have Looked Like Had I Not Stepped Out of that Cab," Roi Fainéant Press, October 2022
- "I Miss Writing Poetry" & "I'm Afraid of Everything That Wants Me," Vulnerary Magazine, Fall 2022: WITHER, September 2022
- "Wrought Iron Fence to the Heart, or the Summer I Lost My Virginity," Anti-Heroin Chic, Issue 28, August 2022
- "In Defense of the Boy Who Made Heartbreak Hurt Like a Hangover," Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Poem of the Day, April 2022
Features & Interviews
- Interview with Gather, Gather Poets, June 2025
- "Q&A with poet Kait Quinn," The Wild Umbrella, October 2024
- "Interview with Kait Quinn," Free Verse Revolution, Issue IV: Hades, Winter 2021
- "Featured Writer" New Literati, Spring 2015