Bio

Academic Employment

 

• 2019-present Classical Preparatory School, English Instructor, Department Chair        

• 2018-present Saint Leo University, Department of Language Studies and the Arts, Adjunct Instructor 

• 2013-present Saint Leo University, Center for Online Learning, Adjunct Instructor

• 2012-present The Poetry Barn Online Poetry Cooperative, Teaching Artist

• 2013-2018 Ohio University, Department of English, Graduate Teaching Assistant

• 2012 Saint Leo University, Department of English, Fine Arts, and Humanities, Adjunct Instructor

• 2009-2012 University of Mississippi, John and Renee Grisham Fellow in Poetry

• 2007-2009 Pittsburg State University, Department of English, Graduate Teaching Assistant

 

Education

 

• Expected Aug 2022 PhD in English, 20th Century American Literature, Ohio University

  • “Stricken with Elegance: Form, Gender, and Race in American Women’s Poetry, 1914-1945”

  • Committee: Dr. Carey Snyder, Dr. Amrijit Singh, and Dr. Nicole Reynolds (Ohio University)

• May 2012 MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry), University of Mississippi

• May 2011 MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry), University of Southern Maine

• May 2009 MA in English, Pittsburg State University 

• May 2007 BA in English, Saint Leo University 

 

Awards & Honors

• 2009-2012 John and Renee Grisham Fellowship, University of Mississippi

• 2009 Excellence in Research, Pittsburg State University

• 2008 Excellence in Teaching, Pittsburg State University

• 2007 Outstanding Student in the College of Arts and Sciences, Saint Leo University

 

Selected Publications

 

Poetry 

2022

• Reversal Spells in Blue and Black (forthcoming from Seven Kitchens Press)

• Chorus for the Kill (print chapbook, co-authored with Allison Blevins, Seven Kitchens Press)

• “This is the Sound of Voices Two” and “In the Story We’d Like to Tell Our  Children” Tin Fish Issue 21 (co-authored with Allison Blevins, online)

• “Invoking Baba Yaga,” “Chapel,” and “Foster Mother, II” Apalachee Review Issue 69 (print)

 

2020

• “Chorus for the Kill” The New Southern Fugitives 3.20 (online)

• “Case Number B9406017” and “In Our Movie about Virginia Woolf” (online)

 

2019

• “Isle Full of Noises,” Muse/A Issue Nine (print)

 

2018

• “Fragments for KVW,” The Poetry Distillery (March) (online)

• “Lorena Hickok Writes to Amelia Earhart” and “Eleanor Remembers,” The Museum of Americana 14 (February) (online)

 

2016

• “The Miller’s Daughter” The Midwest Quarterly 57.4 (print)

 

2015

• “The Patchwork Horses” Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman, ed. Tony Barnstone  (Everyman’s Library/Random House, 2015) (print)

• “Alcaic for Morning,” “Stain,” and “Bindings” Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters (Everyman’s Library/Random House, 2015) (print)

 

2012

• “No Luck” and “Needles” The Warwick Review 5.4 

 

2011

• “The One-Year Servant Talks to Himself,” Tilt-a-Whirl (Spring) (online)

• “Miranda Along the Jetty,” Goblin Fruit (Fall) (online)

 

2010

• “My Mother Talks about her Hysterectomy,” Melusine 2.3 (Fall/Winter) (online)

• “Pillars,” Melusine 2.2 (Spring/Summer) (online)

• “All Night, I Watch Them,” Arsenic Lobster (Summer) (online)

 

2009

• “Anniversary” Measure 4.1 (print)

 

2008

• “Upon The Occasion of Becoming a Sea Hag,” Goblin Fruit (Summer) (online)

• “Adeline,”Goblin Fruit (Spring) (online)

• “Osiris,” Squaw Valley Review (Spring) (print)

 

Book Reviews

2009 Venus Khoury-Ghata (trans. Marilyn Hacker). Nettles. Counterpoise 13.3 

 

Selected Conference Papers and Guest Lectures

• 2015 “Louise Bogan’s Queer Times” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (Philadelphia, PA) 

• 2013 “Theory of Delving”: Muriel Rukeyser and the Metrical Code West Chester University Poetry Conference (West Chester, PA) 

• 2012 “Pageantry and Parody: Exile and Return in Angela Carter’s Wise Children.” Popular Culture Association (Boston, MA)

• “A Hybrid of Hereafters: Radical Aesthetics in Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.” South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Study (Asheville, NC)

• 2011 “Left to her Weaving: Charlotte Lucas and the Myth of Arachne.” South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Study  (St. Simon's, GA)

• 2008 “Unzipping Elizabeth Bennet: Unsexing in Pride and Prejudice.”  South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Study (New Orleans, LA)

• 2007 “When Clairvoyants Retire: Poems.”  Arkansas Philological Association (Little Rock, AR)

 

Teaching Experience

Classical Preparatory School (2019-present)  

• English II (20th-Century World Literature)

• English III (American Literature)

• English IV (British Literature)

• AP Literature and Composition

• AP Language and Composition 

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Saint Leo University (2012-present)

• 2018-present Basic Composition (Fall), Academic Writing I (Fall and Spring), Giants of the Arts (Spring)

• 2017-2018 Giants of the Arts (Spring), Television and the American Family (Fall), Academic Writing II (Spring)

• 2017-2016 Introduction to Creative Writing: Exploring the Four Genres (Fall), Giants of the Arts (Spring and Summer), Television and the American Family (Spring and Summer), Television and the American Family (Fall, Spring, and Summer)

• 2015-2016 Television and the American Family (Fall, Spring, and Summer), Introduction to Creative Writing: Exploring the Four Genres (Spring)

• 2014-2015 Academic Writing I (Fall), Television and the American Family (Fall, Spring, Summer), Academic Writing II (Spring), Introduction to Creative Writing: Exploring the Four Genres (Spring)

• 2013-2014 Academic Writing II (Fall, Spring), Academic Writing I (Spring), Introduction to Creative Writing: Exploring the Four Genres (Summer)

• 2012-2013 Introduction to Creative Writing: Exploring the Four Genres (Fall), Integrated Arts (Fall), Academic Writing II (Fall and Spring)

 

Ohio University

• 2017-2018 Introduction to Literature: Fiction and Nonfiction (Fall and Spring), Shakespeare and Film (Teaching Assistant, Fall), Women and Writing: Fairy Tales and Gender (Spring), Women and Writing: Gender, Illness, and the Medical Body (Summer), Graduate Seminar in Romanticism (Teaching Assistant, Summer)

• 2016-2017 American Literature, 1912-present: Insiders, Outsides, and their Circles (Spring), Women and Writing: Fairy Tales and Gender (Fall and Spring), Shakespeare and Film (Teaching Assistant, Fall), Women and Writing: Gender, Illness, and the Medical Body (Summer)

• 2015-2016 Women and Writing: Fairy Tales and Gender (Fall and Spring), Women and Writing: Gender, Illness, and the Medical Body (Summer)

• 2014-2015 Writing and Rhetoric I (Fall), Women and Writing: Fairy Tales and Gender (Spring), Women and Writing: Gender, Illness, and the Medical Body (Summer)

• 2013-2014 Writing and Rhetoric I (Fall), Modernism and Gender (Teaching Assistant, Spring)

 

University of Mississippi 

• 2012-2013 First-Year Writing (Fall and Spring)

• 2011-2012 Poetry Workshop  (Spring)

• 2010-2011 Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction (Summer)

• 2009-2010   Fiction Workshop (Summer)

 

Pittsburg State University

• 2008-2009 Introduction to Research Writing (Fall and Spring)

• 2007-2008  Composition (Fall and Spring)

 

Literary Outreach & Academic Service

• 2020-present  Member of the Board of Directors, Aim Higher

• 2018-present Poetry Editor, Harbor Review

• 2017-2018 Managing Editor, Parlour: A Journal of Literary Analysis and Criticism

• 2016-2017 Web Content Editor, Parlour: A Journal of Literary Analysis and Criticism 

• 2015-2018 Reader for First-Year and Junior-Year Composition Exemption Exams

• 2012 Organizer for 100,000 Poets for Change in Oxford, Mississippi

• 2011-2012 Staff Member, The Yalobusha Review

• 2011 Organizer for Community Poetry Workshop with Richard Tillinghast in Oxford Mississippi (Oxford Conference for the Book)

• 2009 Youth Friends Reading Volunteer at Lakeside Elementary School in Pittsburg, Kansas

• 2008-2009 Poetry Editor, Cow Creek Review

• 2007 Theatre Search Committee Member at Saint Leo University

• 2007 Art History Search Committee Member at Saint Leo University 

• 2007 Managing Editor, The Sandhill Review