For a look at my current, weekly writing and ongoing creative reflections, visit my Substack at @jeaniceeagandavispoet. For a list of my formal publications, awards, and honors, see below:

Awards & Honors

• Poetry Writer of the Year, Kansas Authors Club (2026)

• Ad Astra Award for Excellence in Writing, Meadowlark Press (2026) — Awarded for the short story "Shadow Siblings: Sorrow Steeped into Blood and Bone"

• Outstanding Poem, ROMP Winter Poetry Challenge (2020)

• Kansas Authors Club Annual Contest Placements (2026): 1st Place, Japanese Forms — "[waxing crescent]"; 2nd Place, Narrative Verse — "Dust"; 2nd Place, Whimsy — "Match"; 3rd Place, Flash Fiction — "Monday, Wash Day"; 3rd Place, Poetry: Rural Voices — "One Shirt"; Honorable Mention, Short Story — "Break Line"; Honorable Mention, Ekphrastic Poetry — "An Orchid"; Honorable Mention, Prose: Rural Voices — "Summer's Gravity"

Publications

Poetry

• • “For Jeanne Bird,” Cooweescoowee Journal of Arts and Letters, 2011

  • “In Spring,” “Summer Rain,” “Autumn Haiku,” “Winter Starlings,”“Iceberg Lake, Glacier National Park, 2009,” Cantos: A Literary and Arts Journal, 2014

  • “Dream,” Lady Blue Literary Arts Journal, 2017

  • “Home Going,” ROMP Winter Poetry Challenge, Outstanding Poem, 2020

  • “She Visits,” “Brother & Fish,” “Landline,” The Talon Literary Journal, 2020

  • “I Have Wasted My Life,” The Stafford Challenge 2024-25 Anthology, 2025

  • “Pinpoint of Light,” The Stafford Challenge 2025-26 Anthology, 2026

  • “Full” and “Kitchen Circus: Mama Makes Soup,” Amaranth: A Journal of Food Writing, Art, & Design, Summer 2026 

  • "Tuesday, Central High School, Room 214" — Writing from the Center: Literary Zine, Volume 4 (Forthcoming).

  • "No One Exits" — Published in Cryptids, Kaiju, and Corn, Volume II (Middle West Press, Fall 2026).

  • "Creature" — Published in Cryptids, Kaiju, and Corn, Volume II (Middle West Press, Fall 2026).

Prose

• “A Shared Language: Ungendering the Language and Re-Visioning the Myths,” Proceedings of the 2015 Visions Research Conference, 2015

• “Stacked Stones,” Writing from the Center Zine, 2025

• “Home Going,” 105 Meadowlark Reader, 2026

• "Summer's Gravity" — Writing from the Center: Literary Zine, Volume 4 (Forthcoming).

• "Shadow Siblings: Sorrow Steeped into Blood and Bone" — Published in 105 Meadowlark Reader, Issue 12: The Borrowed Issue (Fall 2026).