Education
- PhD – Creative Writing & Fiction, Ohio University, Athens, OH
- MFA – Program for Poets and Writers & Fiction, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Boston, MA
- BA – Creative Writing/Literary Theory & Minor Mathematics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Research
Interests: Fiction & Creative Writing; Foundations of Composition
Publications
- No Tokens Issue 9, Black Teeth, Fall/Winter 2022
- The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, Hostage, Spring 2022
- Birmingham Arts Journal, Sky Parade, Issue 18
- Tampa Review, Salvage, Spring 2018
- No Tokens Issue Six, Squall, Spring/Summer 2017
- Route Nine Literary Magazine, Loss of Novak, April 2015
Awards & Recognition
- The Masters Review Anthology XI, Finalist
- Radix Media Megaphone book prize, Finalist
- St. Lawrence Book Prize, Finalist
- ASF Halifax Ranch Prize, Finalist
- Anaphora Arts Residency, Fiction Scholar Recipient
- Great American Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention
- Hackney Literary Prize: Short Story, Winner
- Don Belton Fiction Prize, Indiana Review; Finalist
- Full Tuition Summer Scholarship, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Vermont Studio Center, Tampa Review Danahy Fiction Prize, Runner-up
- Full Tuition Summer Scholarship, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center
- Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency, Scholarship in Fiction
- Wabash Prize in Fiction, finalist, Sycamore Review Issue 27.2
- Kundiman Fiction Fellow
- Cara Parravani Short Story Award
- Summer Dissertation Research Fellow, Fiction, University of Massachusetts Amherst Vermont Studio Center
- Walker Scholarship in Fiction, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center
- Stonecoast Writers’ Conference, University of Southern Maine
- Adelphic Scholarship in Fiction, Wesleyan University Writers Conference