Education

• MFA in Creative Writing, Fiction and Nonfiction, Virginia Commonwealth University
• BA in History, Virginia Commonwealth University

Research Interests

• Short fiction
• Creative nonfiction
• Narrative structure, point-of-view, and time management in storytelling

Select Publications

Short stories

• “Be a Good Example,” The MIT Technology Review (2021)
• “Drop Velocity,” Joyland (2021)
• “Private Lives,” Carve Magazine (2019)

Essays

• “Circling the Blocks,” Black Telephone Magazine (2021)
• “On Process and Writing Through,” Parhelion Literary Magazine (2020)

Courses

• ENGL 215: Reading Literature
• ENGL 307: Writing Fiction
• HONR 398: Space, Place, & Identity

Awards

• 2019–2020 Fellow, Cabell First Novelist Award Fellowship, VCU
• 2020 Winner, Fiction, Patricia Aakhus Award, Southern Indiana Review
• 2019 Winner, Fiction, Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, Carve Magazine
• 2019 Scholar, Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop
• 2018 Winner, Nonfiction, Frank McCourt Memoir Prize, The Southampton Review