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