EDUCATION
Ph.D. English, University of Southern Mississippi 2016
M.A. English, University of Southern Mississippi 2006
B.A. English, Southern Illinois University 2004
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Encyclopédie of the Common & Encompassing, Kore Press, April 2016
Poems
"Just Relaxing," "Indecision in the School Yard," "Everywhere You Go," Valley Voices, Spring 2018
"New You," Copper Nickel, Spring 2017
“Animals,” The Florida Review, Fall 2016
“Necessity,” “Wake,” “Zugzwang,” The Cincinnati Review, Fall 2015
"Infant," Westerly, Fall 2015
"Wave-ing," Switchback, Fall 2015
“Asking,” and “Rain,” A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, Winter 2012
“City,” and “Crowds,” Burntdistrict, Fall 2012
“Just,” The Pinch, Fall 2012
“&,” Harpur Palate, Summer/Fall 2012
“Body” and “Cemetery,” Armchair/Shotgun, Summer 2012
“Humanisticism,” “Loneliness,” and “You”, Witness Summer 2012
“What to Know,” Rattle, Summer 2011
“A Long Time Up Hard Mountain,” Labletter Spring 2011
“Chopin, Sheep, Feet,” Chopin with Cherries, An Anthology, Spring 2010
“Why I want to Believe We’re Planets,” big bell, Fall 2009
“Crawl up the Wall,” big bell, Fall 2009
“Love Bucket,” Court Green, Winter 2008
“Says” Court Green, Winter 2008
“Bathtub Fishing and Chances for Remake,” VERSE, May 2007
“Vampire Style,” Slant, Spring 2007
“It Wasn’t a Planting,” The Pinch, Spring 2007
“Rum-Tum-Tum,” Rio Grande Review, Fall 2006
“Dim and Out,” Marginalia, Fall 2006
Poetry & Visual Art Hybrid
"Brooklyn Revisited," "Funny Bunny," "Virga," and "Of Course," Drunken Boat, Spring 2016
“Big Game” and “Checkerboard,” STORY, Winter 2015
“Crowds,” Drunken Boat, Fall 2015
“Fault,” “Accident,” and “Walking,” Product Spring 2014
“Equanimity,” and “Skeletons,” Palooka, Spring 2012
Nonfiction
"What Work Is," Tampa Review, Fall 2016
Guest blogger for Best American Poetry website, May 2014
“Bringing Natural Birth to the Pine Belt,” Parents & Kids Magazine, January 2014
“Lucky Rabbit,” Parents & Kids Magazine, November 2013
“Halloween for the Wee Ones,” Parents & Kids Magazine, October 2013
“Monsters You Should Look Out For,” Luna Park, January 2009
“From Japan, With Love,” Wine Enthusiast Magazine, June 2008
“Genre Gods of the Short Story Challenge,” NYC Midnight, January 2008
“Briongloid,” Metropolis, October 2007
“Monkey Mountain,” The Tokyo Advocate, May 2007
“Time Machine,” Metropolis, January 2008
“Inside Sake,” The Tokyo Advocate, March 2007
“Botanic Art,” The Tokyo Advocate, February 2007
“Rock’n All Day Long,” The Tokyo Advocate, February 2007
“What’s Corked at Coco Winery,” The Tokyo Advocate, December 2006
“Craftsman Melds Function with Attractive Form,” Sassafras, Magazine of Southern Living, July 2005
“Architect Plans for Future, Preserves the Past,” Sassafras, Magazine of Southern Living, June 2005
“Laurelite Offers Sense of History and Suspense,” Senior Lifestyles, Impact Publications, June 2005
“A Potter’s Impression,” Sassafras, Magazine of Southern Living, April 2005
“Knees in the Breeze,” Senior Lifestyles, Impact Publications, April 2005
“Abstract in Enjoyment,” Sassafras, Magazine of Southern Living, March 2005
Reviews & Interviews
Denise Duhamel: Feminism and Other Isms, Raintaxi, Summer 2017
The Tornado is the World, by Catherine Pierce, Raintaxi, Spring 2017
Dear, Sincerely, by David Hernandez. Rain Taxi, Fall 2016
“Spaces Between: Allison Campbell and Rachel Moritz in Conversation,” Rain Taxi, Summer 2016
Responses to poems by David Lehman and Denise Duhamel in Valley Voices, New York
School and Diaspora: Special Issue, Fall 2014
Sixty-Cent Coffee and a Quarter to Dance, by Judy Jordan. The Hollins Critic, July 2005
Critical Works
“Irreverent Nature: Frank O’Hara as Poet of City Ecology” Valley Voices, New York
School and Diaspora: Special Issue, Fall 2014
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Editor, Mississippi Review: 2012-2015
Guest Editor, Hybrid Poetry Portfolio, STORY: Winter 2015
Editorial Intern, Ideal Bite, Inc.: Spring 2008
Poetry Editor, Product: Spring 2005
Editorial Assistant, Crab Orchard Review: Spring 2004
Editor, Grassroots Undergraduate Literary Magazine: 2003-2004
HONORS AND AWARDS
AWP Intro Journals Winner: Creative Nonfiction, "What Work Is," Selected by Jessica Handler
Department of English, Teaching Assistant of the Year, University of Southern Mississippi, Spring 2016
Ben Mounger Rawls Award for Excellence in Creative Writing, Honorable Mention, University of Southern Mississippi, Spring 2015
College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student of the Year, Honorable Mention, University of Southern Mississippi, Spring 2015
English Department Graduate Student of the Year, University of Southern Mississippi, Spring 2015
Susan A. Siltanen Graduate Research Symposium, English Department Award Winner, University of Southern Mississippi, Spring 2015
Joan Johnson Award for Best Poetry, University of Southern Mississippi, Fall 2014
Product Magazine Best of Poetry, selected by guest judge Matt Rasmussen, Spring 2014
Manuscript a finalist for Saturnalia Press’s Poetry Prize, guest judge Gerald Stern, Summer 2014
Emerging Poets Contest, Boulevard Magazine, Honorable Mention, Fall 2013
Outstanding Creativity in Teaching, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Laguna Campus, México, 2010
Earll Prize, Outstanding Achievement in Original Writing, Southern Illinois University, 2004
Thelma Louis Kellogg Scholarship, College of Liberal Arts, Southern Illinois University, 2003
Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Southern Illinois University, May 2002
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Instructor of Record, Department of English, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2013 – 2016
Introduction to Poetry Writing: Writing as Creative Seeing
Composition I: The Art of Language: Word as Way to Argue and Reach Understanding
Survey of World Literature: World, Home
Technical Writing: Writing in Professional & Public Contexts
Expanded Composition I: From Personal Narrative to Academic Argument
Gradate Instructor of Record, Department of English, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, 2005 – 2006
English Composition I: Argument and Analysis
Composition II: Research and Argument
Adult ESL/EFL
CUNY Adult Literacy ESL/BE/GED Programs, 2012
English as a Second Language: English Language Acquisition through Reading, and Writing Creative Nonfiction
University Settlement, Family Literacy Program, 2010-2012
English as a Second Language: Vocabulary, Grammar, Writing and Pronunciation
Olivet University, San Francisco, 2008
Beginning Composition & English as a Second Language: Vocabulary, Grammar and Pronunciation
Dokkyo University, Matsubaradanchi, Japan, 2007
English as a Second Language: Vocabulary, Grammar and Pronunciation
High School & Middle School
Lusher Charter School, Middle & High School, New Orleans, 2016 – Present
Exploratory Creative Writing
Certificate of Artistry Preparatory Creative Writing
High School Creative Writing I & II
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Laguna Campus, México 2009-2010
English Literature: Survey of Western Literature – Prose, Poetry & Drama
English as a Foreign Language: Intermediate & Advanced English
Introduction to Philosophy: Survey of Western Philosophy
Kyowa Junior High School, Ashikaga-shi, Japan 2006-2007
English as a Second Language: Vocabulary, Grammar, Writing and Pronunciation
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Poetry Instructor, New Writers Institute, 2015 - Planned and facilitated poetry workshops for two-week summer camp
Research Assistant, University of Southern Mississippi, 2005 - Managed budget and orders for English department’s library acquisitions
Research Assistant, University of Southern Mississippi, 2004 - Assisted Dr. David Wheeler, edited sections of a pending book on 18th Century Poetry, transcribed poetry for publicatio
TUTORING EXPERIENCE
Founder, Director & Tutor, TEC Writing Center, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Laguna Campus, México 2009-2010
Tutor, The University of Southern Mississippi Writing Center, 2004-2005 & 2012
Tutor, Southern Illinois University Writing Center, 2003-2004
CONFERENCES
Panels Organized
"Writing in the Pines: Reading and Panel Discussion from the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers, Mid-South Literary Festival, Memphis, TN, Fall 2015
“The Hybrid Book: Publishing Poetry and Art Together,” AWP Conference & Bookfair, Minneapolis, MI, 2015
“Mixed Methods: Collaboration Between Visual Art and Contemporary Poetry,” AWP Conference & Bookfair, Seattle, WA, 2014
Papers Presented
“Dorothy Wordsworth: ‘More than Half a Poet,’” International Conference on Romanticism, Park City, UT, October 2015
“‘Done Got Over’ Questions of Ownership: Poetry and Song in Ellen Douglass’s Can’t Quit You, Baby,” Southern Writers, Southern Writing Graduate Conference, Oxford, MS, July 2015
“Irreverent Nature: Frank O’Hara as Poet of City Ecology,” Susan A. Siltanen Graduate Research Symposium, Hattiesburg, MS, April 2015
SERVICE
Co-Poetry Chair for C4W, the Center for Writers’ graduate student organization, 2014
Volunteer Tutor, 826 NYC, Brooklyn, New York, 2011-2012
Volunteer Workshop Leader, 826 Valencia, San Francisco, 2008
Guest Lecturer, 400-level Poetry Writing, University of Southern Mississippi, 2006
Organizer, Kafé Night – fiction and poetry readings in Hattiesburg, MS; 2005-2006
Host and organizer, Best of Grassroots – readings at Southern Illinois University, 2004
Student Organizer, Devil’s Kitchen Literary Festival, Southern Illinois University, 2003
SELECTED READINGS
Mid-South Literary Festival, Memphis, TN - September 2015
C4W Reading, Hattiesburg, MS - September 2015
Southern Writers, Southern Writing, Oxford Mississippi – July 17th, 2015
Ecopoetry - A Poetry Reading for Earth Day, Hattiesburg, MS – April 2015
Product Magazine, Release Party, Hattiesburg, MS – April 2015
Literary Cage Match, Hattiesburg, MS – April 2015
Mid-South Literary Festival, Impossible Language Series; Memphis, TN – September 2014
Center for Writers Reading Series; Hattiesburg, MS – February 2013, September 2014
Amnesty International Benefit Reading; Hattiesburg, MS – April 2014
Armchair/Shotgun Issue Release; Brooklyn, NY – September 2012
Rattle, Summer Issue Release; Santa Monica, CA – August 20, 2010
Bilingual Poetry Night; Torreón, México – November 18, 2009
What the Dickens; Tokyo, Japan – September 3, October 1, December 3, 2006 – January 7, February 4, March 4, April 1, May 6, and October 7, 2007
H.E.L.P. Benefit Reading; Tokyo, Japan – December 13, 2006, December 14, 2007
The Show Must Go On; Benefit Reading for Printed Matter Press; Tokyo, Japan – November, 2 2006
Kafe Night, International Center; University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi – May 5, 2006
Unite in Harmony; National Poetry Month Group Reading, Hattiesburg, Mississippi – April 7, 2005
Backdoor Coffee House; University Baptist Church, Hattiesburg Mississippi – February 2005