education
M.F.A. Creative Writing/Fiction, 2017
Vermont College of Fine Arts | Montpelier, VT
B.A. English/Creative Writing, 2012
Colorado College | Colorado Springs, CO
publications
Listed on site!
My personal essays, articles, and academic curriculum material has also appeared in Fulcrum Publishing’s Anthology on Reproductive Health, Malibu Magazine, The Feminist Wire, Glamour, The Date Report, Pearson Education Books, AARP online and in print, and more.
awards and accomplishments
Winner, Poetry Prize, The Penn Review, for Talking to my imaginary friend about feeling sad, 2024
Shortlist, Nonfiction Prize, Sonora Review, for The Five Stages of Out of Place Grief, 2023
Finalist, Poetry Prize, Arts and Letters, for Ectopic Eclipse and other poems, 2022
Longlist, Mslexia Novel Contest, for Welcome to Hooverville, 2019
2nd Prize, SMK Literary Competitions, for Welcome to Hooverville in the Novel Excerpt category, 2019
Graduation Speaker, Vermont College of Fine Arts, 2017
Finalist, The Jack Kent Cooke Arts Award, 2014
Fiction Finalist, Carve Magazine’s 2013 Raymond Carver Prize
Fiction Finalist, [PANK] magazine's 1,000 Awesome Words Contest, February 2012
2008-2012 Dean’s List, Colorado College
Recipient of the 2011 Colorado College Award in Literature
further education
Juniper Writing Residency, Amherst, MA, June 2023
Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY, Winter 2020 & 2022
Yucatan Writing Conference, Cozumel, MX, October 2017
Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop, Brooklyn, NY, March 2014-December 2015
Denver Publishing Institute, Denver, CO, July-August 2012
(intensive publishing course for graduate credit)
relevant work experience
Founder and Workshop Leader, Fledgling Writing Workshops, Brooklyn, NY (July 2016-present)
Freelance Copy Writer and Editor, New York, NY (May 2013-present)
Humanities Teacher/Mentor, Fusion Academy HS, Brooklyn, NY (January 2017-August 2017)
Publicity Assistant, Penguin Book Group, NY (October 2012-May 2013)
Intern, Grove Atlantic Publishing, NY (August 2012-October 2012)
other places I’ve taught
Vermont College of Fine Arts (2023-present, Summer MFA residencies)
Colorado College Half Block, “Building a Narrative” (January 2021)
STARS (2019 Self Care Saturday events)
Vermont College of Fine Arts (2018 summer residency, MFA workshop)
Artsworth in Ellsworth, ME (2018, weekend retreat)
The Silberman School at Hunter College (2017 and 2018 Common Time)
literacy advocacy
I have interned, volunteered, and tutored for LitWorld/LitLife, 826NYC, Gotham Writers Workshops, and The New York Writer’s Coalition. I have been a mentor for Girls Write Now for three years.