I’m humbled and blown away to learn my chapbook, Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect is a finalist for the 2025, 37th Annual Lambda Lammy Poetry Awards! The winner has not been revealed and will be announced later in the fall with an online awards ceremony. Read the entire list and find out more about Lambda here.
I’m very grateful to Patty Paine and the Diode Editions team for the nomination and for awarding the book in the 2023 chapbook contest. Note it was published in October of 2024 and you can get a signed copy on my site, or purchase directly from Diode.
Also, I’m very grateful to the Lambda staff for this and their ongoing support to queer writers, and of course to the judges who generously donated their time.
This came at a good time, a heartbreaking time for this country, and at a very strange time for me. As much as I’ve always liked being an underdog, the last year and a half or so have been challenging on most fronts, so this designation feels like a giant nod from the universe that there’s someone out there to receive these words, these queer words, these grief words. And I’m happy to connect with other queers, here, now, and later; a little bit of me will continue to resonate even when the universe ushers me into the next stage… (not to be morbid), and jeez, previous finalists and winners have been people/lesbians like Minnie Bruce Patte, Audre Lorde, Eileen Myles, and Adrienne Rich!!! It’s such an honor!
I’m very grateful to everyone who generously supported this book in all the myriad ways. Big love to you, my wonderful little community.
