MFA, English – Creative Writing, Purdue University

BA, English, Hope College

 

Areas of Interest & Expertise

• Poetry

Recent Courses Taught

• ENGL 1113: Composition I

Selected Publications

• “Allowing Your House Ghosts to Steal Your Loafers” and “cannibal ant from special object 3003,” The Shore, 2021

• “How to Love Someone at the Bottom of the Ocean,” ­Academy of American Poets, 2021

• “Diptych: A Mr. 7 Hands Screwdriver and an Octopus Open Up about Their Relationship,” Longleaf Review, 2021

• “First Date with the Asteroid that Killed the Dinosaurs,” BOOTH, 2021

• “Any of Various Bases or Parts,” Quarterly West, 2018

Professional Appointments

• Poetry Reader, Cimarron Review, Fall 2021-Present

• Poetry Reader, Sycamore Review, Spring 2021

• Visiting Writers Series Coordinator, Purdue University, Fall 2019-Spring 2021

• Content Developer, Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab), Fall 2018-Spring 2020

Awards and Recognition

• Thomas H. Scholl and Elizabeth Boyd Thompson Poetry Prize (Academy of American Poets Universities and Colleges Prize), Purdue University, Spring 2021

• Kneale Award for Literary Criticism (Second Place), Purdue University, Spring 2021

• Department of Anthropology Award, Purdue University, Spring 2021

• AWP Intro Journals Award (Honorable Mention), Spring 2021

• Quintilian Award; Purdue University, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Summer 2020

• VPA Award, Purdue University, Spring 2020

• Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award; Purdue University, Fall 2019

• Jennifer Young Award in Creative Writing and Literature; Hope College, Spring 2017

• William B. Eerdmans Prize in Prose; Hope College, Spring 2016                                                          

• Erika Brubaker Award for Promising Achievements in the Study of Literature; Hope College, Spring 2016