She has been published in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Missouri review and many other journals, and she is currently working on a poetry collection called Forage, which will be published by Penguin Books. She won the National Poetry Series for her most recent poetry collection Its Days Being Gone, also published by Penguin Books. As her works often focus on Southern life, she has received the Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New Writing Award for Poetry. She has also held the positions of Poet in Residence at Frost Place, and Poet in Residence at the University of Mississippi. At this time she is also an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Auburn University and Co-editor in Chief and Poetry editor of The Southern Humanities Review.