•EDUCATION•
University of California, Irvine, MFA Creative Writing, Poetry, 2011
Harvard University, A.B. in English and American Literature, magna cum laude thesis, cum laude in field, 2004
• EDITING, PUBLISHING, & TEACHING WORK•
Assistant Editor, Book Buddy Media, 2018-present.
• Completed comprehensive editing services for a book packager with a wide variety of publishing clients.
• Accurately and efficiently fact-checked, copy-edited, and proofread manuscripts including graphic novels, science primers, and full-length novels, according to client style guides, CMOS, and/or AP Style.
• Fostered dozens of projects from conception through to design, from story development to line editing.
• Assigned work and communicated with vendors such as authors, copyeditors, fact checkers, designers, and
illustrators, ensuring on-time work that exceeded client expectations.
• Consulted on company-wide graphic novel workflow management; mentored new editors.
• As writer, conceived of, fully and accurately researched, outlined, and wrote complete nonfiction books including captions, glossaries, activities, sidebars, features, and backmatter.
• Communicated cheerfully and assiduously, balancing writerly expertise with publisher needs.
• Regularly relied upon by editors to step in as author mid-project when projects were not meeting expectations.
Assistant Editor, The Rise Up Review, 2017-2019.
• Read, commented on, and voted for Submittable submissions along with the founding editor and co-assistant editors.
• Formatted accepted pieces.
• Maintained and updated website using the WebsiteBuilder content management system.
• Wrote and scheduled social media posts.
Advisory Board Member, Paris Press, 2011-2018.
• Advised a nonprofit literary press publishing neglected and out-of-print women writers.
• Proofread manuscripts as needed.
• Attended yearly board meetings.
• Worked on social media, development, and course placement.
• Sold books and networked with authors, publishers, and distributors at national book fairs.
Lecturer with Continuing Appointment. University of California Irvine English Department, 2011-2018.
• Courses taught independently in person and fully online, as Graduate Student Assistant (2008-2011) and full-time Lecturer (2011-2019): Introduction to Poetry Writing; Intensive Writing; Critical Reading and Rhetoric; Introduction to Writing and Rhetoric; Argument and Research
• Unanimously endorsed as Excellent and awarded Continuing Appointment, March 2017.
• Created unique themes, texts list, syllabi, and assignments for creative writing and composition courses, geared towards building multi-genre writing skills and building awareness through the reading of new and canonical literature.
• Piloted comprehensive portfolio versions of two department courses, writing syllabi, prompts and rubrics, and creating activities reflective of the new schema.
• Collaborated in writing new rubrics and objectives for extra-disciplinary readers to evaluate poetry and academic writing produced in Introductory poetry course.
• Judged the UCI Lower-Division Writing Awards. 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016
• Scored for UCI Introduction to Writing and Rhetoric course assessments. 2014, 2016
• Co-Authored “Critical Reading”. Chapter on close-reading, in Anteater Guide to Writing and Rhetoric. 2014, updated 2015
• Reading Series Co-Coordinator of the UCI MFA Reading Series. Booked off-campus venues, publicized, and introduced readers in the year-long student reading series. 2009-2010
•PUBLICATIONS•
Books
Peninsular Scar, Dancing Girl Press. 2019
Poetry Publications (Selected)
Cold Mountain Review, “Uterus as baby as breathing as wellfield as contraction”
Flyway, “Jacaranda”, “I learn about you on the prairie”
Bone Bouquet, “Gardenia”
Massachusetts Review, “Growth”, “Pain”, “Lake Michigan”
Prairie Schooner, “Ice storm”, “Scaredy-Cat”, and “The fly moves like a shark”
Fence, “Nest” and “String-Net”
Bennington Review, “Orange County bird of prey” and “Hummingbird in torpor with
jacaranda”
Nimrod, “There’s that red light over there.”
ZYZZYVA, “Maybe it’s egodystonic anosognosia” and “This morning I woke up and after
a while it was like this:”
Waccamaw Journal, “If there was one thing I knew, and felt…”
Witness Magazine, “Visitation, Ashfield”
Zocalo Public Square, “Theseus in the aftermath”
RHINO, “After reading James Wright”
Vinyl, “Mother”
Bellingham Review, “California child speaks in August” and “Night apartments”.
Tupelo Quarterly, “Florida child speaks to hurricane seahorses”
Reviews & Interviews
“Kristen Kaschock’s Explain This Corpse”. Southern Indiana Review. Forthcoming, Fall 2021
“Pidgeonholes “Morning/Night”. The Review Review. June 2018
“Mary Quade’s Local Extinctions”, Quarterly West. June 2018
“Twilight in the AIRIE Nest”, South Dade Newsleader. March 2018
Massachusetts Review, Interview. Summer 2019
Nimrod, Interview. Spring 2018
Bellingham Review, Interview. Spring 2017
•HONORS•
Awards and Nominations (Selected)
Paul Nemser Book Prize Finalist. 2021
Harbor Editions Laureate Prize Finalist. 2021
Ghost Peach Press Prize Finalist. 2020
Tupelo Press Berkshire Prize Semi Finalist. 2020
Frontier Poetry Antioch Fellowship Finalist. 2020
Sundress Publications Open Reading Finalist. 2017
Burnside Review Chapbook Contest Finalist. 2017
paper nautilus Debut Series Finalist. 2017
Quarterly West Chapbook Contest Finalist. 2017
Matrix Magazine LitPOP Awards, Grand Prize Winner, judged by Eileen Myles. 2017
New Letters Poetry Prize Finalist. 2017.
SLS Fiction & Poetry Contest Grand Prize Winner. 2017
Best New Poets 2017 Nominee, by Bellingham Review. 2017
Porkbelly Press chapbook competition Finalist. 2016
CutBank chapbook competition Finalist. 2016
Smartish Pace Beullah Rose Prize Finalist. 2016
Lynn Garnier Memorial Award Recipient. 2010
Presentations, Fellowships, and Residencies (Selected)
Dancing Girl Press Salon Series Featured Reader. September 2019
Tangelo Reading Series Featured Reader. May 2018
Ragdale Foundation Resident. March and April 2018
Everglades National Park Artist-in-Residence. February 2018
AIRIE Foundation Grant recipient. February 2018
Soaring Gardens Artist-in-Residence. August 2017
Tbilisi Writer’s House Featured Reader. July 2017
Ora Lerman Charitable Trust Grant Recipient. June 2017
Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowships Finalist. April 2017
Napa Valley Writers’ Conference Scholarship Recipient. July 2016
A Poetic Uprising Featured Reader. June 2016
Colrain Manuscript Conference Fellowship Recipient. June 2015
Colorado Art Ranch Writer-in-Residence. July-August 2012
Squaw Valley Community of Writers UCI Scholarship Recipient. July 2010, July 2011
South Lake Middle School’s National Poetry Month Featured Reader. April 2011
Entasis Journal Featured Reader. January 2011
UC Irvine Regents Fellowship Recipient, full tuition and fee remission. Spring 2009