Co-Director, Minor in Writing; Lecturer
About
I'm a poet and fiction writer who enjoys working with students at all levels and disciplines to help them create writing that matters to both them and the world. My heroes are a motley group of superstars who include Susan Sontag, James Baldwin, Rebecca Solnit, Roxane Gay, and Wonder Woman.
Fields of Study/Research Interests
Contemporary Literature, Poetry and Fiction Writing, Digital Writing, Genre Studies, Rhetoric.
Courses/Teaching Assignments
English: 124, 125, 223, 225, 229
Writing: 100, 200, 220, 400, 420, 993
Writing Workshop
Published Collections
Co-founder and Co-Editor of Public School Poetry: A Literary and Craft Journal
Rules for Rearrangement. Poetry collection. Winner of the 2019 Kithara Book Prize (Glass Lyre Press Nov. 2020)
Autoplay. Poetry collection (MG Press 2014).
Recently (almost!) Completed Work:
The Wild Out (novel ms. that sprang from my short story "A Game We Played" published in The Rumpus)
Affiliation(s)
Department of English
University of Michigan Lecturer and Research Fellow
Grants and Awards
2023 Best Poet of Washtenaw County, Current Magazine
2022 Writers Colony Fellowship, Eureka Springs, Arkansas
2020 Pushcart Nomination for "Nothing better than to be alive and open-mouthed"
2019 Kithara Book Prize
2019 and 2018 Golden Apple Nominee
2018 Honored Instructor
2012 Vermont Studio Full Fiction Fellowship
Presentations
"Crafting Possibilities: A Revision Workshop." Creative Writing Studies Conference. Black Mountain, NC. Oct. 2018.
"Radical Hope: Writing and Reading Political Poetry." Creative Writing Studies Conference. Warren Wilson. Asheville, NC. Sept 2017.
"Tensions Between Experience and Meaning." Pedagogy Forum. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. Spring 2017.
“Who Are We in the Creative Writing Classroom?: Interventions in the Craft vs. Context Fight.” AWP. Minneapolis, MN. April 2015
