PUBLICATIONS & PERFORMANCES
Nevada Public Radio/Desert Companion, “In the Bag,” April 2024
Literary Speakeasy, February 2024
Babylon Salon, “Museum of Hurt,” December 2023
Nevada Public Radio/Desert Companion, “Not Taking What They’re Giving,” July 2023
Abandon Journal, “The Perfect Love,” March 2023
Barrelhouse, “Bark On” review, February 2023
“Dream States,” Litquake, October 2022
Stories on Stage, Pence Art Gallery, Davis, October 2022
under the gum tree, “Intimacy Costs,” October 2022
Sonora Review, “Rage” essay contest, Winner for “I Don’t Know What Possessed Me,” June 2022
“About Last Night” storytelling event, Make-Out Room, San Francisco, Feb 2022
“Organ Music: Dispatches from Our Insides,” Litquake, October 2021
Emerald City Lit Mag, “Laughing in the Bushes,” September 2020
Blood Orange Review, Inaugural Literary Contest in Nonfiction, runner-up for “Rape Card,” December 2019
2020 Texas Poetry Calendar, “Varanasi” and “Metronomes”
The Massachusetts Review, “Seedlings in the Bukhara,” Summer 2018
The Southampton Review, Frank McCourt Memoir Prize, Second Place for “Sounds Kept in the Valley of the Tongue,” Summer/Fall 2017
Meridian, “Symmetry,” Winter 2017
Scout Magazines, Writer, March 2014-January 2015
Pen and Pint Short Story Contest, First Place Winner, August 2013
The Landing, Published essays
“Girls or Ducks,” Issue III, December 2013
“While They Go Hungry,” Issue II, January 2013
The Weekly Dig, Reporter, April 2012-January 2014
Cultural Survival Quarterly, “The Prescription for Indigenous Rights,” Summer 2009
GoWorld Travel, “From Wisconsin to Kenya: Learning through WorldTeach,” 2008
Co-Founder & Co-Host, March 2024-Present
RESIDENCIES, WORKSHOPS AND EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Action, Spectacle, Prose Co-Editor, December 2022-Present
The Best of the Net, Reader, 2024
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, August 2022
Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, July 2022
Hypatia-in-the-Woods residency, March 2022
Wellstone-in-the-Redwoods residency, September 2021
Carve Magazine, Fiction Reader, May 2020-February 2021
Tucson Festival of Books Masters Workshop, February 2018
Words Apart Magazine, Nonfiction Editor, June 2016-May 2017
Editor-in-Chief, August 2015-June 2016
Nonfiction Editor, September 2014-August 2015
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, May 2017
Presidential Fellowship
Emerson College, Boston, MA
Bachelor of Arts in Travel Writing and Social Advocacy, December 2010
Summa Cum Laude
Emerson College, Boston, MA