Education

M.F.A from Bowling Green State University – Creative Writing, Fiction May 2022

B.A from Winthrop University– Mass Communication, May 2020

Professional Experience

Communications Manager– Indiana Arts Commission // June 2022- Present

Creative Writing Instructor– Bowling Green State University // Aug. 2021- May 2022

Fiction Editor– Mid-American Review // Aug. 2020- May 2022

Associate Fiction Editor– Okay Donkey Magazine // June 2020-November 2021

Creative Writing Program Assistant Coordinator– Winthrop University // Aug. 2019- Dec.2019

Presentations and Readings

• Reading, Prout Chapel Bowling Green State University October 2021
• Reading, Foglifter Press Release Party April 2021
• Reading, Prout Chapel Bowling Green State University January 2021
• Presentation, “Dating Your Characters.” Winter Wheat Literary Festival, November 2020
• Presentation, “Two Drug Epidemics in a Racist World: Comparing the Crack Crisis with the Opioid Epidemic” Showcase of Undergraduate Research, Winthrop University May 2020
• Reading, “Up Next: I Dye My Hair Blonde.” Winthrop University Student Showcase, March 2020
• Reading, Series of poems. South Carolina Arts & Humanities Festival, 2019
• Introduction, Introduced National Book Award winner Nikky Finney; Winthrop University Reading Series, 2019
• Reading, “Por Mi Hermanito Mateo” and “To My Father’s Hands” Winthrop University Creative Writing Showcase, 2019

Community Service

• Diversity Ambassador Committee, Indiana Repertory Theatre
• Creative Writing Workshop leader at Indy Reads
• Visiting Writer at Crim Elementary School
• Visiting Writer Hiring Committee Member, Bowling Green State University

Publications

Creative Work

• “5 Methods of Coming out to your Parents” Rejection Letters (Fiction) 2021
• “La Noche De San Juan” Foglifter Press (Fiction) 2021
• “My Father Used to Sleep in the Binding of a Merriam-Webster Spanish to English Dictionary” Perhappened Magazine (Poetry) 2021
• “Swiping Right on Democracy” Mixed Mag  (CNF) 2020
• “PCOS: Reimagined” Barrelhouse Magazine (Fiction) 2020; Best Small Fictions Nominated
• “Up Next: I Dye My Hair Blonde” Barren Magazine (Fiction) 2020; Pushcart Nominated
• “Por Mi Hermanito Mateo” and “What My Mother Doesn’t Understand” Redactions: Poetry & Poetics (Poetry) 2019; Pushcart Nominated
• “To My Father’s Hands” (Poetry) 2019 Anthology at Winthrop

Book Reviews

• “The Complete Writings of Art Smith the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne,” by Michael Martone Mid-American Review 2022
• “Collective Gravities” by Chloe N. Clark Entropy 2020
• “A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed” by Jason Brown Heavy Feather Review 2020
• “Patron Saint of Lost Girls” by Maureen Aitken Heavy Feather Review 2018

Journalism (Selected)

• “Two Drug Epidemics in a Racist World: Comparing the Crack Crisis and the Opioid Epidemic” Winthrop University Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors 2020
• “McMaster Addresses Berkeley Chamber of Commerce” The Summerville Journal Scene 2019
• “After the Corridor of Shame” The Johnsonian 2018
• “WU Looks to Face Issues with Policing through Candid Conversation” The Johnsonian 2018

Awards

• Artist Travel Grant, Central Indiana Community Foundation
• Devine Fellowship, Bowling Green State University 2021
• Inez Bell Caskey Scholar Award Arts & Humanities, Winthrop University 2020
• Outstanding Senior in Journalism, Winthrop University 2019
• Anita Jones Spearman Scholarship, Winthrop University 2018
• Larry Timbs Diversity Scholarship, Landmark Newspapers 2017