AWARDS & HONORS


  • 2021: Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize, Semi-finalist.

  • 2018: Gold Wake Press's Poetry Book Contest, Semi-finalist. 

  • 2016: Gertrude Press's Poetry Chapbook Competition Finalist. 

  • 2013: The William T. Shadden Scholarship Graduate Award for Poetry. 

  • 2013: The Urban Ocean, 4th Annual Festival Poetry Contest Winner. 

  • 2012: The Urban Ocean, 3rd Annual Festival Poetry Contest Winner.


INTERVIEWS

  1. Unlearning cultural and gender expectations.

  2. How to balance writing authentically (creating for the self) vs. writing to please the invisible audience (creating pieces that people will actually want to read).

  3. The emotionally taxing aspect of teaching at the community college level.

  4. Income instability of being an adjunct professor and being a poet.

A woman with glasses and dyed purple hair reading from a yellow paper in front of a large bookshelf filled with colorful books, with a group of people listening in a library or bookstore.
Jax NTP reads - at MFA Reading Series at Wine Crush in Long Beach - into a microphone outdoors at night, under a red umbrella with string lights overhead.
Woman standing at a podium giving a speech or presentation in front of a colorful geometric backdrop. Several framed artworks are displayed on easels in the foreground.

​"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. 
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena