Writer. Dancer. Educator.

 

Her writing, teaching, and special projects examine the relationships between people and places, with a particular interest in global women’s issues, public history, and the environment.

She writes every day at Louis Place and is represented by Susan Canavan at Waxman Literary Agency.

 
 

MFA, Fiction; Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies

Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut

BA, Creative Writing

Salem College
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

International Exchange
Magdelen College, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Karlshochschule International University, Karlsruhe, Germany

National Exchange
University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii

 

Select Publications

 

Fiction & Nonfiction

 

Gazing at Algol: Beta Persei from Fem 500, zine, November 2021

Googling Bettie Page, 133-A, Figure 1 Journal Issue 5b Summer 2021, poetry

Mad Girl’s Love Song: Truths and Fictions, Graduate Thesis 2016

Mothers & Daughters, Noctua Review 2015, fiction

Don’t Fuck With the Girls From Revere, First Times Anthology 2014, flash fiction

20/20 Vision, Every Writer’s Resource, flash fiction

 

Book Reviews

 
 

Events

 

September 2024
Interview, The Long Pause

May 9, 2021
Mother’s Day Poetry Reading
Nature-Culture, Zoom

October 2020
Podcast with Max Negotiating
Negotiation and Breath

May 13, 2016
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut

April 27, 2015
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut

 

Editing

 

Daily Art app, English Language Editor, 2019
Text in Context: A Graduate Student Journal
Volume 2, Issue 1 Special Section: Pop Culture in Context, Peer Review, 2014
Campus Clipper, Editor, 2012
Incunabula, Salem College Literary Journal, Editor and Peer Review, 2010, 2011
Salem College International Literary Award, Preliminary Reader 2010, 2011

 
 

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