The College of

Arts and Sciences

 

Bowling Green State University, MFA, 2018

SUNY Potsdam, BFA, 2016

 

Areas of Interest & Expertise

• Creative Writing – Poetry

• Feminist poetics

• Fat Studies

• Family Intergenerational Trauma

Recent Courses Taught

• ENGL 1113: Composition I

• ENGL 1213: Composition II

• ENGL 2513: Introduction to Creative Writing

Selected Publications

Book

• Hiding in a Thimble. Haverthorn Press, 2021.

Chapbook

• Imitating Light. Iron Horse Literary Review, 2021.

Journals

• “I Don’t Know How to Tell My Father He Didn’t Prepare Me for the Real World,” Moon City Review, forthcoming

• Two Poems, Anthropocene, 2021

• “Super Moon,” The Boiler, 2020

• Two Poems, Josephine Quarterly, 2020

• “Family Portrait,” RHINO Poetry, 2019

• “How to Care for Your Rabbit’s Foot Fern,” Sleet Magazine, 2019

• “Bones I Get From My Mother,” Glass: A Journal of Poetry, 2018

• “I’m Sorry I’m Not An Iguana,” Whiskey Island, 2018

• “oh no!” Driftwood Press, 2017

Selected Reviews

• “It’s Never Just About the Food: Digesting Samantha Zighelboim’s The Fat Sonnets,” Entropy Magazine, 2021

• “Revolving Questions in CM Burroughs’s Master Suffering,” GASHER, 2021

Selected Conference Presentations

• “Queer Subterfuge: How 3 LGBTQ+ Peer Tutors Complicate Writing Center Praxis.” The National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, virtual, November 2021.

Professional Appointments or Professional Service

• • Treasurer, English Graduate Student Association, 2021-Present

  • Poetry Editor, Arcturus Magazine, 2020-Present

  • Poetry Reader, Cimmaron Review, 2020-Present

  • GPSGA Liaison, Creative Writing Association, 2020-2021

  • Panelist, Arts & Humanities Graduate School Panel, 2020

  • Managing Editor, Mid-American Review, 2017-2018

Awards and Recognition

• Palette Poetry Prize Longlistst

• AWP Intro Journals Award Nominee, “If I Have a Daughter I Will Call Her Shipwreck,” 2020

• Glass Chapbook Series Finalist, 2020 

• Best of the Net Nominee, “On Grieving,” 2020 

• Best of the Net Nominee, “Love Poem in Rural Oklahoma,” 2019 

• Best New Poets Nominee, 2019 

• Best of the Net Nominee, “I <3 Mixtapes & Other Things I Think During Sex,” 2018

• Best of the Net Nominee, “Snip/Slide,” 2018  

• Devine Fellowship in Poetry Recipient, 2018

• AWPWIntro Journals Award Nominee, “If you had a wife like me, you’d drink too,” 2017

• Sylvia Angus Creative Writing Award Recipient, 2016