Education

• MFA, Fiction and Creative Nonfiction, VCU, 2022
• MA, Secondary English Teaching, Lewis and Clark College, 2012
• BA, English Literature, Carleton College, 2005

Research Interests

• Creative Writing (Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry)
• Narrative Theory/Narratology
• American Postmodernism
• Contemporary Short Story

Select Publications

• Book Review of Luster by Raven Leilani for Blackbird, 2022
• “Erik and George,” Streetlight, 2022
• “Her Boy Who’s Made of Bees,” Zizzle, 2021
• “The Boy Who Drowned the Mermaids,” Barstow and Grand, 2019
• “What They Did When the Moon Died,” Clackamas Literary Review, 2019

Courses

• ENGL 447: Form and Theory of Fiction
• ENGL 307: Writing Fiction
• ENGL 295: Reading and Writing of Fiction and Poetry

Awards

• VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Fellowship, 2021–2022
• Nancy Ludmerer Flash Fiction Fellowship, 2021
• VCU Catherine and Joan Byrne Poetry Prize, 2019
• Winner, The Gravity of the Thing Six Word Story Contest, 2016