CURRICULUM VITAE

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EDUCATION

 

The Writers’ Workshop at University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

MFA in poetry (May 2021)

 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

B.A. with distinction in English and Religious Studies, creative writing (poetry) minor (May 2018)

Highest honors in creative writing

 

EXPERIENCE

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Match Group 

Content Designer

February 2024 --- Current 

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Co–Star Astrology Society

Content Designer

January 2022 --- February 2024

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University of Iowa Distance and Online Education

Adjunct Instructor of Creative Writing

Fall 2021 

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University of Iowa English Department

Graduate Instructor in General Education Literature

Spring 2021

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University of Iowa English Department

Graduate Instructor in Foundations of Creative Writing

Fall 2020

 

University of Iowa English Department

Graduate Instructor in Honors General Education Literature

Spring 2020

 

University of Iowa English Department

Graduate Instructor in General Education Literature

Fall 2019

 

Duke TIP, Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM

Instructional Counselor, Field Studies: Creative Writing Unplugged

June -- July 2018

 

Creative Writing Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Substitute teacher, Introduction to Poetry Writing, Intermediate Poetry Writing

7th September 2017

 

Duke TIP, Rice University, Houston, TX

Teaching Assistant, Creative Chronicles: The Intersections of Narrative & History

July 2017

 

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

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Nashville Review

Editorial assistant, May 2020 -- January 2022

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The Iowa Review

Editorial assistant, August 2019 -- January 202

 

Salamander Literary Magazine

Poetry reader, May 2018 -- December 2019

 

Cellar Door Literary Magazine, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Editor-in-Chief, fall 2017 -- spring 2018

Poetry editor, spring 2017

Poetry reader, fall 2015 -- fall 2016

 

The Typewriter Project, The Poetry Society of New York, Raleigh, NC

Typewriter intern and local liaison, spring 2017

 

Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, NC

Editorial intern, May 2016 -- August 2016

 

The Daily Tar Heel, Chapel Hill, NC

Opinion columnist, May 2015 -- May 2018

 

Persephone’s Daughters Literary Magazine, National

Prose reader, summer 2015 -- summer 2017

 

CLTure.org, Charlotte, NC

Junior copywriting intern, summer 2015

 

PUBLICATIONS AND THESES

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• Poems: "Wanda at the Bar" and "Midsummer," December Magazine, spring 2022

• Thesis: Breathless, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, May 2021

• Poem: "Outside the National Portrait Gallery," Industry Magazine x Oxford Review of Books, March 2021

• Poem: "August," Sand Hills, fall 2020

• Poem: "Dog hair diaries," Bread & Assembly, August 2020

• Poem: “Anti positivism,” Columbia Journal, winner of the special issue on Loneliness, August 2020

• Poem: “Homestyle,” Frontier Poetry – Luther Hughes’ Cute Little Syllabus feature, December 2019

• Poem: “Damned spot; or, coughing up blood one morning,” Sonora Review, fall 2019

• Poem: “Bull-kelp coast,” Tin House Online, June 2019

• Poem: “Against Misinterpretation,” The Dollhouse, summer 2019

• Poem: “Mirror Test; or, washing pig shit off my shoes in a McDonald’s bathroom,” The Oyez Review, May 2019

• Poem: “Don’t Have to Go Home in a Straight Line,” The Emerson Review, April 2019

• Poem: “Object Lesson; or, cherry picking Egypt’s ten plagues,” LEVELER,  February 25, 2019

• Poems: “Self-Portrait as Picasso’s War and Peace (Head of a Woman)” and “Ginseng,” Noble / Gas Quarterly, Issue 205.4, December 2018

• Honors thesis: Montrose, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of English and Comparative Literature, May 2018

• Poem: “Inheritance,” Atlantis Magazine, summer 2018 issue

• Poems: “Claw Machine” and “River,” Miscellany, 2018 issue

• Chapbook: Ephemera, Texas Review Press, April 2018

• Poem: “Cystic Fibrosis,” Health Humanities Journal of UNC-Chapel Hill, fall 2017

• Poem: “Pollen Season,” The Daily Tar Heel, September 2017 feature in special section Tar Heel Verses

• Poem: “Gas Station Entomology for a Dragonfly,” Vagabond City Literary Magazine, July 2016 issue

• Poem: “Delilah and Her Scissors,” Cahoots Literary Magazine, winter 2016 issue

• Short Story: “Saving Grace,” Canvas Literary Journal, fall 2014 issue

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

 

• First place for "Anti positivism" in Columbia Journal's Special Issue on Loneliness contest (July 2020)

• Recipient of the University of Iowa Graduate College Summer MFA Fellowship (summer 2020)

• Finalist for the Scotti Merrill Emerging Writer Award at the Key West Literary Seminar (September 2019)

• Highest honors in creative writing for honors thesis Montrose (UNC Chapel Hill, May 2018)

• First place in the Anthony Abbott Poetry Contest (May 2018)

• Honorable mention in the A.R. Ammons Poetry Contest (April 2018)

• Theta Kappa Alpha: religious studies honor society (spring 2018)

• Robert B. House Memorial Prize in Poetry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2018)

• Texas Review Press’ Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize for Ephemera (August 2017)

• Second place in the Anthony Abbott Poetry Contest (May 2017)

• Honorable mention in the A.R. Ammons Poetry Contest (April 2017)

• The Kevin Tidwell Memorial Scholarship (August 2014 -- May 2018)

• Gold Key Award for Senior Writing Portfolio in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (April 2014)

• Silver Key Award for short story in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (April 2013)