Creative Writing

Education

• MFA (Creative Writing - poetry), University of Iowa
• MFA (Creative Writing - fiction), New York University
• BA (Literature with a dual concentration in poetry and neuroscience), Bennington College

Research Interests

• Modernist literature
• Metamodernist literature
• Comparative prosody
• Neuroaesthetics
• Contemporary American literature
• Contemporary Pan-African literature
• Medieval European literature
• Literary editing and publishing
• Global orature and folklore traditions
• Ballet, modern dance, and dance criticism
• Music theory and performance (harp)
• Kiswahili 
• History of scientific thought

Select Publications

• Lazarus Species: poems (Milkweed Editions, 2025)
• Philomath: poems (Milkweed Editions, 2021)
• Hold Harmless: a novella (Ploughshares Solos, 2025)

Awards

• Winner of the National Poetry Series (2020)
• Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize for best first book (2021)
• Winner of the Levis Reading Prize (2022)
• Amy Lowell Travel Scholar (2022-2023)
• Jill Davis Fellow at NYU (2020-2022)