POSITIONS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND RESIDENCIES
AOP Fellow, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, August 2021 – present
Essay Coach, Galin Education, April 2022 – present
Editor-in-Chief, Cream City Review, July 2021 – July 2022
Managing Editor, Cream City Review, January 2021 – July 2021
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, 2020 – present
Poetry and Nonfiction Reader, Cream City Review, 2020 – 2021
Upward Bound English Instructor, TRIO at Southeastern Louisiana University, 2018 – 2019
English and Dual Enrollment Instructor, Southeastern Louisiana University, 2017 – 2020
Poetry Reader, Boulevard Magazine, 2017 – 2020
Women’s Center Project Editor, University of Idaho, 2016 – 2017
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Idaho, 2014 – 2017
Editorial Intern, River Styx, Summer 2016
Managing Editor, Fugue Magazine, 2015 – 2016
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Introduction to College Writing, 3 sections, 2020 – 2021
Southeastern Louisiana University
Queer Film and Literature, Spring 2020
American Literature from 1865, Spring 2020
Introduction to Poetry Writing, Fall 2019
Critical Reading and Writing, 15 sections from 2017 – 2020
Freshman Composition, 15 sections from 2017 – 2020
Developmental English, 4 sections from 2017 – 2020
Upward Bound at Southeastern Louisiana University
Composition and Rhetoric for college credit, 2 sections from 2018 – 2019
Developmental English, Summer 2019
University of Idaho
Beginning Poetry Writing and Workshop, Spring 2017
Composition and Rhetoric, 5 sections from 2014 – 2017
Freshman Composition, 4 sections from 2014 – 2017
Presentations
2020
“Regional Poetics: Then and Now,” online symposium moderated by Marty Cain and funded by a grant from the Cornell University English Department
13th Annual Clemson Literary Festival, featured panelist with South Carolina Review, Clemson, SC (*Postponed due to COVID)
“Glistening Multiplicities: A Poetics of Sex Work,” New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA (*Postponed due to COVID)
“Bodily Transformations: Reclaiming the Self,” New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA (*Postponed due to COVID)
“Bodily Transformations: Reclaiming the Self,” Association of Writers & Writing Programs, San Antonio, TX
2019
“Little Blue Books at 100,” the unveiling of the Map of Kansas Writers project, guest reader sponsored by Washburn University and Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS
2017
“C.A. Conrad’s Mythopoetics and Magick,” The Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching, Franconia, NH
Conferences and Events Moderated
2019
“ORCHIDS ARE SPROUTING FROM THE FLOORBOARDS: Optical and Textural Immersion in Kaveh Akbar’s Calling a Wolf a Wolf,” presentation of poetry dioramas with Introduction to Poetry students, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
Generative Writing Workshop co-led with Alison Pelegrin, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
2018
“Queering the Moonlight of the Clitoris: On the Bodily in Frank Stanford’s Poetry,” Frank Stanford Literary Festival, Fayetteville, AR
2017
“The Modern Elegy: Tracy K. Smith & David Bowie,” Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
2016
River Styx Reading Series Summer Issue Launch, co-organized with Lizzy Petersen, St. Louis, MO
SELECTED PUBLIC READINGS
2022
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Poetry Hour, Poetry Marathon and Benefit for Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI
2021
Poetry in the Park, hosted by Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI
LGBTQ+ Poetry Hour, curated by Elizabeth Hoover, Poetry Marathon and Benefit for Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI
2020
United We Read, faculty and graduate student reading, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2018
“With the Approach of the Oak”: An Open Mouth and TYPO Reading, Frank Stanford Literary Festival, Fayetteville, AR
“A Cold Spring,” faculty reading, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
Pop-Up Prose Reading Series, Moscow, ID
2017
Open Mouth Reading Series, Fayetteville, AR
Pop-Up Prose Reading Series, Moscow, ID
Get Lit! Festival, Spokane, WA
2016
Hungry Young Poets hosted by River Styx, St. Louis, MO
SELECTED AWARDS
2020
Chancellor’s Award, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Southeastern Louisiana University Faculty Professional Development Grant
2018
Finalist, Pamet River Prize from YesYes Books for full-length manuscript vo/luptuary (offered publication)
Finalist, Alice James Award from Alice James Books for full-length manuscript vo/luptuary
2017
The Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching Scholarship
Finalist, Sunken Garden Prize from Tupelo Press for chapbook dark acre
2014
Grace V. Nixon Scholarship, University of Idaho
2013
Jo McDougall Poetry Prize, selected by Elizabeth Bradfield