Jessica Goody
Education
“The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword” with Dr. Ellen Malphrus. University of South Carolina-Bluffton, 2016
“The Art of Poetry” with Robert Pinsky. Boston University, 2016
“Journalism for Engaged Citizens” with Margaret Simons. University of Melbourne, 2016
“The Craft of Creative Writing” with Amy Bloom. Wesleyan University, 2016
“Modern American Poetry” with Cary Nelson. University of Illinois at Urbana, 2016
“Sharpened Visions Poetry Workshop” with Douglas Kearney. CalArts, 2015
“How Writers Write Poetry” with Christopher Merrill. University of Iowa, 2015
“Modern and Contemporary Poetry” with Al Filreis. University of Pennsylvania, 2015
“Poetry in Response to Art: Ekphrasis”. University of South Carolina-Bluffton, 2014
Certificate in Voice-Over Production. Voice Coaches LLC, 2011
Oceanside Senior High School, Class of 2004
Experience
Instructor, “Scribbling Your Way to Success”. University of South Carolina-Bluffton, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. October 2017
Instructor, “Voices and Verses: Poetry Slam”. University of South Carolina-Bluffton, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. April 2016
Correspondent, The Bluffton Sun. September 2014--present
Publicist\Reviewer, Sun City Community Theatre, Bluffton, SC. June 2014--present
2017 Sun City Select Award: “Favorite Place To See A Live Theater Production”
Correspondent, The Bluffton Today. January 2014--present
Staff Writer\Editor, SunSations Magazine. October 2012--present
Books
Defense Mechanisms. Phosphene Publishing, 2016
Featured at the 2017 Bluffton Book Festival, Bluffton, SC
Featured at Authors Under the Live Oaks, Yemassee, SC
Book of the Month for The Creativity Webzine, February 2017
Featured at the 2017 AWP Conference and Bookfair Disability Literature Consortium
Poetry
“Jazz”, “Casa Azul”, “Madonna and Child”. The Creativity Webzine, ed. Charles E.J. Moulton.
Vol. 3, Issue XIII
“Potatoes”. The High Window, ed. Anthony Costello. Spring 2017
“Blitzkrieg”, “Changeling”, “The Red Cadillac”, “Thirteen Blackbirds”. Connotation Press,
ed. Davon Loeb. Issue V, Volume VIII
“The Red Cadillac”. Third Wednesday, ed. David Jibson. Vol. X, No. 2
“Senses”, “Roosevelt’s Braces”, “Mastectomy”. Magnets and Ladders, ed. Mary Jo Lord. Spring\Summer 2017
“Spring Rain”, “The Color of Rain”, “Irises”. The Creativity Webzine, ed. Charles E.J. Moulton.
Vol. 3, Issue V
“Discoveries”. The Dime Show Review, ed. Kae Sable. Vol. 2, Issue II
“Geishas On A Folding Screen”. The Wallace Stevens Journal, ed. Jim Finnegan. Vol. 41, No. 1.
“Voyage to the Moon”. The Creativity Webzine, ed. Charles E.J. Moulton. Vol. 3, Issue IV
“Blue Landscape”, “Green Sentinels”, “Spring Rain”. The Creativity Webzine, ed. Charles E.J. Moulton. Vol. 3, Issue III
“Bruegel’s Bride”. The MacGuffin, ed. Gordon Krupsky. Winter 2017
“Rehearsal”, “Spirituality”, “Potatoes”. The Creativity Webzine, ed. Charles E.J. Moulton.
Vol. 2, Issue XXXI
“Summer Fruit”, “Potatoes”, “Bitter Tea”, “Fallen Apples”. The Kitchen Poet, ed. James Browning Kepple. January 2017
“Ode to Isak Dinesen”, “Words”, “Inspiration”. Literary Yard, ed. Onkar Sharma. Dec. 2016
“Senses”. Kaleidoscope: A Journal of Disability Studies, ed. Gail Willmott. Issue LXXIII
“263 Prinsengracht”. Wordgathering, ed. Michael Northen. December 2016
“Bruegel's Bride”, “Jazz”. The Centrifugal Eye, ed. Eve Hanninen. Autumn 2016
“Mona Lisa”. Third Wednesday, ed. Joe Ferrari. Autumn 2016
“Fallen Apples”, “Autumn Rising”, “Scarecrow”. The Creativity Webzine, ed. Charles E.J. Moulton. Vol. 2, Issue XXIX
“Willowbrook”, “For Karen”. Magnets and Ladders, ed. Mary Jo Lord. Fall\Winter 2016
“Parisian Landscape”, “Greenwich Village”, “Certain Doorways”. The Creativity Webzine, ed. Charles E.J. Moulton. Vol. 2, Issue XXIV
“Ode to Isak Dinesen”, “Great Expectations”, “The Beekeeper’s Daughter”. The Creativity Webzine, ed. Charles E.J. Moulton. Vol. 2, Issue XXII
“Summer Fruit”, “Beachcombing”, “Oceans”. The Creativity Webzine, ed. Charles E.J. Moulton. Vol. 2, Issue XXI
“Willowbrook”. Breath and Shadow, ed. Chris Kuell. Volume 13, Issue IV
“Radium Girls”. Phantom Drift, ed. Matt Schumacher. Issue VI, October 2016
“Unanswered Prayers”, “War Declared”, “Liberty Ladies”. Indiana Voice Journal, ed. David Allen. July 2016
“Whale Song”, “Catalina”, “Diving”. The Creativity Webzine, ed. Charles E.J. Moulton. Vol. 2, Issue XVII
“Words and Music”, “Discoveries", “Backstage”. The Creativity Webzine, ed. Charles E.J. Moulton. Vol. 2, Issue XVI
“Neurodivergency”, “Learning to Walk”, “Human Curiosity”, “Willowbrook”. Rhubarb, ed. Di Brandt. Issue 39
“Blue Landscape”. Third Wednesday, ed. Joe Ferrari. Spring 2016
“The Selkie”. Really System, ed. Patrick Williams. Issue X
“Liberty Ladies”, “Unanswered Prayers”, “Radium Girls”. The Seventh Wave, ed. Joyce Chen. Issue III
“Beachcombing”, “Oceans”, “Starfish”. The Maine Review, ed. Katherine Mayfield. Spring 2016
“Starfish”, “Prosthetics”. Barking Sycamores, ed. N.I. Nicholson. Issue VIII
“Beachcombing”, “The Mermaid”, “Starfish”. Event Horizon, ed. Fedor Kossakovski. Issue VII
“Neurodivergency”, “Mastectomy”. Breath and Shadow, ed. Chris Kuell. Volume 13, Issue II
“Antarctic Rookery”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. December 2015
“Willowbrook”. Pentimento, ed. Marie Kane. Issue VI
“Autumn Rising”. The Sun City Sun, ed. Lynne Hummell. October 2015
“Ode to Katharine Hepburn”, “Casa Azul”. Barking Sycamores, ed. N.I. Nicholson. Issue VI
“Memory”, “Reverie”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. July 2015
“Drawing Blood”. Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, ed. Michael Northen. Vol. X, issue II
“Antarctic Rookery”. Bird’s Thumb, ed. Anita Dellaria. June 2015
“Stockings”. Reader’s Digest, ed. Liz Vaccariello. June 2015
“Suicide Methods”, “Til Human Voices Wake”. Open Minds Quarterly, ed. Dinah Laprairie. Spring 2015
“The Color of Moonlight”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. April 2015
“263 Prinsengracht”. Gravel, ed. Alexis Pacheco. April 2015
“Learning to Walk”. Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, ed. Michael Northen. Vol. IX, issue I
“Senses”. Open Minds Quarterly, ed. Dinah Laprairie. Winter 2015
“Migraines”, “Learning to Walk”, “Dear John”. Barking Sycamores, ed. N.I. Nicholson. Issue IV
“Neurodivergency”. Barking Sycamores, ed. N.I. Nicholson. Issue III
“Panic Attack in Neo-Natal ICU”, “Senses”, “My Body”, “The Mermaid”. Barking Sycamores, ed. N.I. Nicholson. Issue II
“Summer Fruit”, “Beachcombing”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. August 2014
“War Declared”. HeART, ed. Leslie Anne Mcilroy. July\August 2014
“Panic Attack in Neo-Natal ICU”. Kaleidoscope: A Journal of Disability Studies, ed. Gail Willmott. Issue LXIX
“Identity Crisis”, “Willowbrook”. Barking Sycamores, ed. N.I. Nicholson. Issue I
“Dusk in Springtime”. The Sun City Packet. May 2014
“Ode to Maiya”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. April 2014
“Amnesia”, “Willowbrook”, “Awakenings”. Spectrum, ed. Mercedes Lucero. Issue I
“Man Ray”. Broad!, ed. Heather Lefebvre. Winter 2013
“Apple-Picking”, “Ode to Katharine Hepburn”, “Backstage”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. December 2013
“The Crocodile”. The Sun City Packet. November 2013
“A World Without Windows”. Primalzine. Issue III
“Brassai I”. Little Eagle’s Re\Verse, ed. Ralph Murre. June 2013
“Defining Moments”. Little Eagle’s Re\Verse, ed. Ralph Murre. April 2013
“Carnival”. The Sun City Packet. January 2013
“Apartment”, “Defining Moments”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. December 2012
“Hallucination Upon Awakening”, “Trichotillomania”, “My Scars”, “Insomnia”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. December 2011
“The Left-Behinds”. Getting Along with Grief, ed. Ysabel de la Rosa. June 2011
“Brassai Portraits I”, “Cat Eyes”, “Landmine Apocalypse”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. December 2009
“Kandinsky”. Moonlight Cafe. 2009
“When An Angel’s Wings Are Broken”. Timepieces. Volume X
“The Woman”. Seasons of Change. Volume I
“The Woman”, “Tired Women”, “Galatea”. SpiralMuse. 2006
Anthologies
“Radium Girls”. Collateral Damage. Glass Lyre Press, ed. Ami Kaye. 2018. Forthcoming
“Discoveries”. Poetry Diversified. Poetry Matters Project, Ltd. 2017
“Discoveries” . Bards Annual 2017. Local Gems Poetry Press\Bards Initiative, ed. Nick Hale
“Casa Azul”, “Ode to Katharine Hepburn”, “Prosthetics”, “Starfish”. Barking Sycamores: Year Two. Autonomous Press, ed. N.I. Nicholson. 2017
“Bitter Tea”. Bards Annual 2016. Local Gems Poetry Press\Bards Initiative, ed. Nick Hale
“Neurodivergency”, “Being Handicapped”, “For Karen”, Spoon Knife. Autonomous Press, ed. N.I. Nicholson. 2016
“Lion’s Gift”. Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Very Good, Very Bad Cat. Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing LLC. 2016
“Identity Crisis”, “The Mermaid”, “Panic Attack in Neo-Natal ICU”, “My Body”, “Senses”, “Neurodivergency”, “Dear John”, “Learning to Walk”, “Migraines”. Barking Sycamores: Year One. Autonomous Press, ed. N.I. Nicholson. 2016
“263 Prinsengracht”, “Great Expectations”. Voices Israel 2015. Cyclamens and Swords Publishing, ed. JohnMichael Simon
“Certain Doorways”, “Apple Picking”. Bards Annual 2014. Local Gems Poetry Press\Bards Initiative, ed. Nick Hale
“Madonna and Child”. SAMPAD. Inspired By My Museum. 2014
“Candlelight,” “Til Human Voices Wake”, Voices Israel 2014. Cyclamens and Swords Publishing, ed. JohnMichael Simon
“Ancient Trees”. Sun City Sunscribers 2014 calendar
“On the River”, “Fishing”. Voices Israel 2013. Cyclamens and Swords Publishing, ed. JohnMichael Simon
“Defining Love”, “Fishing”. Bards Annual 2013. Local Gems Poetry Press\Bards Initiative, ed. Nick Hale
“The Tempest”. Songs of Sandy. Local Gems Poetry Press\Bards Initiative, ed. Nick Hale. 2013
“Kandinsky”. Poetry By Moonlight: An International Journal of Poetry. Moonlight Media LLC. 2009
Readings\Stage Productions
Magnets and Ladders\Behind Our Eyes Writers’ Party Line Conference. June 2017
Otram Slabess 10th Annual Poetry Reading. Beaufort, SC. April 2017
Island Writers Network. Hilton Head, SC. March 2017
Words: Written, Read and Sung. Bluffton, SC. March 2017
Otram Slabess Annual Poetry Reading. Beaufort, SC. April 2016
Kick-Start Poetry Reading. Hilton Head, SC. April 2016
A Voyage of Poetic Discovery written by Ed Phelps and Jessica Goody, dir. Ed Phelps. Bluffton, SC. March 2015
“Tigress” featured in Sun City Community Theatre Dramatic Reading Workshop, dir. Stuart Blickstein. Bluffton, SC. February 2015
“Triangle Factory Fire” featured in Womanhood, dir. Esther Rosen. Bluffton, SC. Feb. 2015
Long Island Writer’s Guild. Oceanside, NY
Awards and Honors
Finalist, 2017 Poetry Matters Project Spring Robinson/Mahogany Red Literary Prize
First Place, Magnets and Ladders 2016 Poetry Contest
Featured Poet of the Month, The Creativity Webzine, July 2016
Quarter-Finalist, 2015 Mary Ballard Poetry Prize Competition
Second Place, 2015 Reader’s Digest Poetry Contest
Finalist, SAMPAD “Inspired By My Museum” International Writing Competition, 2014
Quarter-Finalist, 2012 Mary Ballard Poetry Prize Competition
Honorable Mention, 2011 Lucidity Poetry Journal’s International Poetry Competition
Featured Poetess of SpiralMuse.org. December 2006
Appearance on The Authors Show with Don McCauley. July 2017
“Lion’s Gift” featured in Andrea Scher’s e-course “Cultivating Courage: 30 Days of Being Brave”
Jessica Goody
Education
“The Art of Poetry” with Robert Pinsky. Boston University, 2016
“Journalism for Engaged Citizens” with Margaret Simons. University of Melbourne, 2016
“The Craft of Creative Writing” with Amy Bloom. Wesleyan University, 2016
“Modern American Poetry” with Cary Nelson. University of Illinois at Urbana, 2016
“Sharpened Visions Poetry Workshop” with Douglas Kearney. CalArts, 2015
“How Writers Write Poetry” with Christopher Merrill. University of Iowa, 2015
“Modern and Contemporary Poetry” with Al Filreis. University of Pennsylvania, 2015
“Poetry in Response to Art: Ekphrasis”. University of South Carolina-Bluffton, 2014
Certificate in Voice-Over Production. Voice Coaches LLC, 2011
Oceanside High School, Class of 2004
Experience
Instructor, “Voices and Verses: Poetry Slam”. University of South Carolina-Bluffton Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. April 2016
Correspondent, The Bluffton Sun. September 2014--present
Publicist\Reviewer, Sun City Community Theatre, Bluffton, SC. June 2014--present
Correspondent, The Bluffton Today. January 2014--present
Staff Writer\Editor, SunSations Magazine. October 2012--present
Books
Defense Mechanisms. Phosphene Publishing, 2017
Poetry
“Bruegel's Bride”, “Jazz”. The Centrifugal Eye, ed. Eve Hanninen. Autumn 2016
“Mona Lisa”. Third Wednesday, ed. Joe Ferrari. Autumn 2016
“Fallen Apples”, “Autumn Rising”, “Scarecrow”. The Creativity Webzine, ed. Charles E.J. Moulton. Vol. 2, Issue XXIX
“Willowbrook”, “For Karen”. Magnets and Ladders, ed. Mary Jo Lord. Fall\Winter 2016
“Parisian Landscape”, “Greenwich Village”, “Certain Doorways”.
The Creativity Webzine, ed. Charles E.J. Moulton. Vol. 2, Issue XXIV
“Ode to Isak Dinesen”, “Great Expectations”, “The Beekeeper’s Daughter”. The Creativity Webzine, ed. Charles E.J. Moulton. Vol. 2, Issue XXII
“Summer Fruit”, “Beachcombing”, “Oceans”. The Creativity Webzine, ed. Charles E.J. Moulton. Vol. 2, Issue XXI
“Willowbrook”. Breath and Shadow, ed. Chris Kuell. Volume 13, Issue IV
“Radium Girls”. Phantom Drift, ed. Matt Schumacher. Issue VI, October 2016
“Unanswered Prayers”, “War Declared”, “Liberty Ladies”. Indiana Voice Journal, ed. David Allen. July 2016
“Whale Song”, “Catalina”, “Diving”. The Creativity Webzine, ed. Charles E.J. Moulton. Vol. 2, Issue XVII
“Words and Music”, “Discoveries", “Backstage”. The Creativity Webzine, ed. Charles E.J. Moulton. Vol. 2, Issue XVI
“Neurodivergency”, “Learning to Walk”, “Human Curiosity”, “Willowbrook”. Rhubarb, ed. Di Brandt. Issue 39
“Blue Landscape”. Third Wednesday, ed. Joe Ferrari. Spring 2016
“The Selkie”. Really System, ed. Patrick Williams. Issue X
“Liberty Ladies”, “Unanswered Prayers”, “Radium Girls”. The Seventh Wave, ed. Joyce Chen. Issue III
“Beachcombing”, “Oceans”, “Starfish”. The Maine Review, ed. Katherine Mayfield. Spring 2016
“Starfish”, “Prosthetics”. Barking Sycamores, ed. N.I. Nicholson. Issue VIII
“Beachcombing”, “The Mermaid”, “Starfish”. Event Horizon, ed. Fedor Kossakovski. Issue VII
“Neurodivergency”, “Mastectomy”. Breath and Shadow, ed. Chris Kuell. Volume 13, Issue II
“Antarctic Rookery”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. December 2015
“Willowbrook”. Pentimento, ed. Marie Kane. Issue VI
“Autumn Rising”. The Sun City Sun, ed. Lynne Hummell. October 2015
“Ode to Katharine Hepburn”, “Casa Azul”. Barking Sycamores, ed. N.I. Nicholson. Issue VI
“Memory”, “Reverie”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. July 2015
“Drawing Blood”. Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, ed. Michael Northen. Vol. X, issue II
“Antarctic Rookery”. Bird’s Thumb, ed. Anita Dellaria. June 2015
“Stockings”. Reader’s Digest, ed. Liz Vaccariello. June 2015
“Suicide Methods”, “Til Human Voices Wake”. Open Minds Quarterly, ed. Dinah Laprairie. Spring 2015
“The Color of Moonlight”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. April 2015
“263 Prinsengracht”. Gravel, ed. Alexis Pacheco. April 2015
“Learning to Walk”. Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, ed. Michael Northen. Vol. IX, issue I
“Senses”. Kaleidoscope: A Journal of Disability Studies, ed. Gail Willmott. Issue LXXIII
“Senses”. Open Minds Quarterly, ed. Dinah Laprairie. Winter 2015
“Migraines”, “Learning to Walk”, “Dear John”. Barking Sycamores, ed. N.I. Nicholson. Issue IV
“Neurodivergency”. Barking Sycamores, ed. N.I. Nicholson. Issue III
“Panic Attack in Neo-Natal ICU”, “Senses”, “My Body”, “The Mermaid”. Barking Sycamores, ed. N.I. Nicholson. Issue II
“Summer Fruit”, “Beachcombing”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. August 2014
“War Declared”. HeART, ed. Leslie Anne Mcilroy. July\August 2014
“Panic Attack in Neo-Natal ICU”. Kaleidoscope: A Journal of Disability Studies, ed. Gail Willmott. Issue LXIX
“Identity Crisis”, “Willowbrook”. Barking Sycamores, ed. N.I. Nicholson. Issue I
“Dusk in Springtime”. The Sun City Packet. May 2014
“Ode to Maiya”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. April 2014
“Amnesia”, “Willowbrook”, “Awakenings”. Spectrum, ed. Mercedes Lucero. Issue I
“Man Ray”. Broad!, ed. Heather Lefebvre. Winter 2013
“Apple-Picking”, “Ode to Katharine Hepburn”, “Backstage”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. December 2013
“The Crocodile”. The Sun City Packet. November 2013
“A World Without Windows”. Primalzine. Issue III
“Brassai I”. Little Eagle’s Re\Verse, ed. Ralph Murre. June 2013
“Defining Moments”. Little Eagle’s Re\Verse, ed. Ralph Murre. April 2013
“Carnival”. The Sun City Packet. January 2013
“Apartment”, “Defining Moments”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. December 2012
“Hallucination Upon Awakening”, “Trichotillomania”, “My Scars”, “Insomnia”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. December 2011
“The Left-Behinds”. Getting Along with Grief, ed. Ysabel de la Rosa. June 2011
“Brassai Portraits I”, “Cat Eyes”, “Landmine Apocalypse”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. December 2009
“Kandinsky”. Moonlight Cafe. 2009
“When An Angel’s Wings Are Broken”. Timepieces. Volume X
“The Woman”. Seasons of Change. Volume I
“The Woman”, “Tired Women”, “Galatea”. SpiralMuse. 2006
Anthologies
“Radium Girls”. Collateral Damage. Glass Lyre Press, ed. Ami Kaye. 2017
“Bitter Tea”. Bards Annual 2016. Local Gems Poetry Press\Bards Initiative, ed. Nick Hale
“Neurodivergency”, “Being Handicapped”, “For Karen”, Spoon Knife.
Autonomous Press, ed. N.I. Nicholson. 2016
“Lion’s Gift”. Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Very Good, Very Bad Cat. Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing LLC. 2016
“Identity Crisis”, “The Mermaid”, “Panic Attack in Neo-Natal ICU”, “My Body”, “Senses”, “Neurodivergency”, “Dear John”, “Learning to Walk”, “Migraines”. Barking Sycamores: Year One. Autonomous Press, ed. N.I. Nicholson. 2016
“263 Prinsengracht”, “Great Expectations”. Voices Israel 2015. Cyclamens and Swords Publishing, ed. JohnMichael Simon
“Certain Doorways”, “Apple Picking”. Bards Annual 2014. Local Gems Poetry Press\Bards Initiative, ed. Nick Hale
“Madonna and Child”. SAMPAD. Inspired By My Museum. 2014
“Candlelight,” “Til Human Voices Wake”, Voices Israel 2014. Cyclamens and Swords Publishing, ed. JohnMichael Simon
“On the River”, “Fishing”. Voices Israel 2013. Cyclamens and Swords Publishing, ed. JohnMichael Simon
“Defining Love”, “Fishing”. Bards Annual 2013. Local Gems Poetry Press\Bards Initiative, ed. Nick Hale
“The Tempest”. Songs of Sandy. Local Gems Poetry Press\Bards Initiative, ed. Nick Hale. 2013
“Kandinsky”. Poetry By Moonlight: An International Journal of Poetry. Moonlight Media LLC. 2009
Essays
“Allen Kupfer: The Human Spirit Can Endure”. The Hilton Head Monthly, ed. Lance Hanlin. January 2016
“Recovering the Pain of Bullying and Finding Confidence as an Adult”. TinyBuddha.com, ed. Lori Deschene. April 2013
“Calling Cards: Society’s Ephemera”. Poetica, ed. Linda Pressman. March 2010
“Procrastination: Bad Habit or Necessary Evil?”. Poetica, ed. Linda Pressman. February 2010
“Rain”. The Sun. October 2009
“Zines”. Riot Grrl Online, ed. Greta Smith. August 2009
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Fiction
“The Stardust Room”. Cyclamens and Swords, ed. JohnMichael Simon. April 2012
“The Story of A Selkie Wife”. Addictive Fiction, ed. Molly Anderson-Childers. July 2010
Readings
Otram Slabess Annual Poetry Reading. Beaufort, SC. April 2016
Kick-Start Poetry Reading. Hilton Head, SC. April 2016
A Voyage of Poetic Discovery written by Ed Phelps and Jessica Goody.
Directed by Ed Phelps. Bluffton, SC. March 2015
“Tigress” featured in SCCT Monthly, dir. Stuart Blickstein. Bluffton, SC. February 2015
“Triangle Factory Fire” featured in Womanhood, dir. Esther Rosen. Bluffton, SC. February 2015
Long Island Writer’s Guild. Oceanside, NY
Awards and Honors
First Place, Magnets and Ladders 2016 Poetry Contest
Featured Poet of the Month, The Creativity Webzine, July 2016
Quarter-Finalist, 2015 Mary Ballard Poetry Prize Competition
Second Place, 2014 Reader’s Digest Poetry Contest
Finalist, SAMPAD “Inspired By My Museum” International Writing Competition, 2014
Quarter-Finalist, 2012 Mary Ballard Poetry Prize Competition
Honorable Mention, 2011 Lucidity Poetry Journal’s International Poetry Competition
Featured Poetess of SpiralMuse.org. December 2006