Education
MFA, Fiction; Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut
International Exchange: Karlshochschule International University, Karlsruhe, Germany
BA, Creative Writing
Salem College
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
International Exchange: Magdelen College, Oxford University, United Kingdom, Literature of the Regency Era
National Exchange: University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii, Marine Biology
Select Publications: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Haiku Suite, slips slips issue 2
No Straight Lines, Only Edges, Flash Nonfiction, slips slips issue 1
Hometown Girls, Flash Nonfiction, slips slips issue 1
The Song of the Body, Last Syllable: A Journal of Long Form Literature, Winter 2023
The Most Beautiful Day of the Year, Sequoia Speaks, Fall 2022 print issue, nonfiction
Texture and Tone, EcoTheo Review, Spring 2022 print issue, nonfiction
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
Events, Interviews
June 2026
Reading, Data Vandals Gallery, Lexington & 51st downtown 6 subway platform
March 2026
Interview, Wallpaper* Magazine
July 2025
Interview, On the Mends
May 17, 2025
slips slips Launch Party Reading, Dixon Place, NYC
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
Community Service
slips slips, co-founder, co-editor of print literary and arts journal, established 2024
Community Liaison and Writing Prompts Workshop facilitator, 2023-present
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
Fellowships & Residencies
2025
Woodward Residency, Fall 2025 Writing Fellow, Queens, NY, USA
Edward Albee Foundation, June Writing Fellow, Montauk, NY, USA
Oak Spring Garden Foundation
Plant Wisdom: Writing About a Single Plant, Residential Course, Upperville, Virginia, USA
2023
Galveston Artist Residency
February Writing Resident, Galveston, Texas, USA
2022
GrubStreet Writing to Heal Immersive Program Fellowship, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Oak Spring Garden Foundation
Paper Making, Residential Course, Upperville, Virginia, USA
Fundación ArteSumapaz
April Artist Residency, San Bernardo, Cundinamarca, Colombia
2021
Residencia Corazón
December Writing Residency, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Oak Spring Garden Foundation
Reading the Landscape, Residential Field Course, Upperville, Virginia, USA
2020
The Cabins Retreat Solo Residency 2020
November Writer in Residence, USA
2017
Mystic Seaport Museum of America & the Sea
Mystic, Connecticut, USA
Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellow, Maritime History
2011
Old Salem Museums & Gardens St. Philip’s Church
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Public History Archives Fellowship
Awards
Emerald Forest Management Simulation, First Place Economics and Creative Business Plan, Karlsruhe, Germany 2015
Noctua Review Honorable Mention, Literary Award 2015
Salem College President’s Prize, Creative Writing 2011
Salem College Spirit Award, Extraordinary Spirit 2011
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