FULL-LENGTH COLLECTION:
Second Nature received the 23rd annual A. Poulin, Jr. Prize and was published in 2025 (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
CHAPBOOK COLLECTION:
Flight received the 2018 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize (Tupelo Press)
SELECTED POEMS:
The Atlantic Selected by Walt Hunter
The Missouri Review
The New York Times Magazine Selected by Rita Dove
The Slowdown Selected by Major Jackson
Editor’s Pick Airlie Press Selected by Brittney Corrigan
Verse Daily
SELECTED REVIEWS:
Anchorage Daily News Second Nature Book Review Selected by Nancy Lord
Lit Hub: Second Nature Forthcoming Titles Selected by Rebecca Morgan Frank
Lit Hub: 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
SELECTED INTERVIEWS:
Frontier Poetry
Poets & Writers
Puerto del Sol
Rattle
Speaking of Marvels
Tupelo Quarterly
SELECTED LITERARY APPEARANCES:
Everytime I Talk About… A Tribute to Lucille Clifton curated by Kwame Dawes
KNBA’s Morning Line: Alaska Quarterly Review
KTUH’s It’s Lit with PhDJ
KTVA Channel 11’s Daybreak
Nebraska Public Media’s “Friday LIVE”
SELECTED PROSE CONTRIBUTIONS:
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 392: Twenty-First-Century African American Poets. South Carolina: BCL, Inc.
“On the Question of My Typographical Intentions Running…” CNF (The Rumpus)
“Peas in the Pocket: The Practice of Fixed Poetic Form” (Black Lawrence Press)
“The Complexities of Personhood: An Essay on Craft, and the Soul” (Prairie Schooner)
SELECTED POETRY ANTHOLOGIES:
A Literary Field Guide to Alaska
New York Quarterly
SELECTED AWARDS:
Recipient of the Alaska Literary Award
Recipient of the Bridport Prize
Recipient of the Frontier Poetry OPEN
Recipient of the NEH Summer Scholar, National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Institute
Recipient of the Robert Hough Teaching Award
Recipient of the Subnivean Awards
Recipient of the Susan Atefat Peckham Fellowship
Recipient of the Terrain.org Editor’s Prize
Recipient of the Third Wednesday Annual Poetry Contest
Chaun Ballard 
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