EDUCATION

Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, ABD

Focus: Indigenous Studies, Theory of the Novel, Place Studies

M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Fiction), University of Oregon, Graduated with Distinction

Terminal Creative Project: “I Miss You in My Sleep”

Chair: Marjorie Celona

B.A. in Literature & Philosophy, Claremont Mckenna College, Graduated with Honors

Thesis: “Thicker than Water”

Chair: Mary Gaitskill

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of English, Fall 2021-Now.

Rhetoric of Happiness (3 sections), Inquiry into Memoir (1 section), Writing In the Workplace (6 sections)

Teaching Artist. Loft Literary Center. Summer 2021 - Now.

Summer 2022: “Contemporary Grief & Joy” (8-week nonfiction workshop)

Summer 2021: “The Art of Autobiography” (8-week nonfiction workshop)

Young Writers’ Institute, Knoxville, TN. Spring 2022.

Speculative Fiction (2 workshops).

University of Oregon, Department of English, Fall 2020-Spring 2021

Rhetoric of the Spoken Word (3 section)

University of Oregon, Department of Creative Writing, Fall 2019-Spring 2020

Intro to Fiction Writing (3 sections)

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Editorial Intern. Tin House. Fall 2023 - Spring 2024.

Nonfiction Editor. Grist. Issue 16 & 17.

Fiction Editor. TriQuarterly. 2022 - 2024.

Freelance Editor. Soulo New York. 2020 - 2022.

Freelance Copywriter. Ampush. 2018 - 2021.

AWARDS & GRANTS

2024 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.

2024 MASS MoCA Residency Fellowship.

2024 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Retreat, Scholar in Fiction.

2024 University of Tennessee Graduate Award in Fiction, Winner.

2024 Carolyn Moore Writers’ House Resident.

2024 Marble House Project Residency (unable to attend).

2024 University of Tennessee Thomas Wheeler Dissertation Fellowship.

2024 Edith Wharton Writer-in-Residence at The Mount.

2023 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 50th Anniversary Fellow.

2022 University of Tennessee Graduate Award in Creative Nonfiction, Winner.

2022 University of Tennessee John C. Hodges Travel Award.

2022 Art Farm June Residency (unable to attend).

Winner, 2021 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. For the story “Field Dressing.”

Recipient. 2020 Booth Fund for Writers Grant.

2020 Sewanee Writers’ Conference John Hollander Scholarship in Poetry (unable to attend).

Nominee, 2019 PEN/Robert J Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. For the story “Every Weekend”, published in Hawaii Pacific Review.