Creative Writing

Education

• MFA (Creative Writing) University of New Orleans
• MSEd (Counselor Education) SUNY/Brockport
• BA (Anthropology) SUNY Brockport

Research Interests

• Literary Nonfiction
• Lyric Essay
• Autoethnography
• Religion & Spirituality
• Poverty & Social Class

Select Publications

• “Magdalene,” & “Easter”: Two Micro-Essays, The Cincinnati Review, May 2022
• The Virgin of Prince Street: Expedition into Devotion (essays). Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2019
• Ladies’ Night​ at the Dreamland (essays). Athens: ​U of Georgia P, 2016.
• Queen of the Fall (essays and memoir). Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2015.
• Ghostbread (memoir).​ Athens: U of Georgia P, 2009.

Courses

• Creative Nonfiction Workshop
• Forms of Creative Nonfiction
• Writing Richmond
• Literary Publishing (Blackbird)

Awards

• AWP Award in Nonfiction (Book Prize)
• Foreword Reviews/INDIES/Book of the Year (Gold Prize)
• Arts & Letters Nonfiction Prize
• NYFA Nonfiction Fellowship
• Iowa Review Prize in Nonfiction