Creative Writing

Education

• MFA (Creative Writing) Sara Lawrence College
• BA (English) University of New Hampshire

Research Interests

• Literary Nonfiction
• Lyric Essay
• Literary Journalism
• Motherhood
• Addiction Studies/Literature of Addiction
• Grief Studies
• Creative Writing
• Pedagogy Podcasting

Select Publications

• “Love and Other Pandemics.” The Sun Magazine, Fall 2024.
• “An Impossible Mercy.” Northwest Review. Winter 2023.
• “In the Valley.” North American Review. Fall 2021.
• “Sunday: A Travelogue.” Prairie Schooner, Winter 2017.

Books

• Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief (memoir/essays). Athens: U of Georgia Press. 2023.
• Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer’s Guide & Anthology (textbook). London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
• If Only You People Could Follow Directions (memoir/essays).​ Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2014.

Courses

• Creative Nonfiction Workshop
• Form & Theory of Creative Nonfiction
• Forms of Joy in Creative Nonfiction
• Women
• Literary Publishing (Faculty Editor, Blackbird)

Awards

• AWP Sue William Silverman Award in Creative Nonfiction (Book Prize), Winner, (Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief)
• PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (Book Prize), Longlist, (Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief)
• Indies Introduce Debut Author selection (If Only You People Could Follow Directions)
• Indies Next List by the American Booksellers Association (If Only You People Could Follow Directions)
• Kirkus Review, ‘Best Books of the Year’ (If Only You People Could Follow Directions)
• Kirkus Review, Starred Review, (If Only You People Could Follow Directions)
• Library Journal, Starred Review, (If Only You People Could Follow Directions)
• Indies Next List for Reading Groups (If Only You People Could Follow Directions)
• Vermont Book Award finalist (If Only You People Could Follow Directions)