The College of

Arts and Sciences

 

BA in English: Literary Studies, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi

 

Areas of Interest

• Queer Poetry/Poetics

• Contemporary Lyric

Recent Courses Taught

• ENGL 1113: Composition I

• ENGL 2513: Introduction to Creative Writing

• ENGL 3323: Technical Writing

Selected Publications

Poetry

• “ARS POETICA AT THE BAR FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE WALL,” Lunch Ticket Vol. 26 (forthcoming)

• “SYNTHESIZER ODE,” Beaver Magazine Issue 11 (forthcoming)

• “I WILL LITERALLY EAT YOUR GRANDMA,” Folklore Review Vol. 2 (forthcoming)

• “I AM NOT AFRAID TO DIE,” BULLSHIT LIT Anthology Vol. 3

• “A Long Life,” Mississippi Review Vol. 52.1-2

• “Leander,” Hyacinth Review, June 2024

• “Amaranth,” Cathexis Northwest Press, Nov.-Dec. 2023

• “Flesh Elegy” & “The Germ,” Basilinda: A Queer & Feminist Journal, October 2023

• “One Warm Summer Night” & “Lovely Bushels & Bone Orchards (Pantoum for the Violently Queer),” Switchgrass Review, Summer 2023

• “As if Again” & “Cardinals are the Color of Blood,” The Heartland Review, Spring 2023

• “Immaterial,” Texas Poetry Assignment, November 2021

Selected Conference Presentations

• Sparagmos: The Ecstatic Space of Queer Futurity in Mythopoetic Practice, South-Central Modern Language Association, 2023

Awards and Recognition

• Mary Lynn Cummings Scholarship in Creative Writing - Poetry, 2024

• Mississippi Review Poetry Prize Finalist, 2024

• Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize Finalist, 2023