education
PhD University of Cincinnati, Creative Writing & Literature, 2024-28 (expected)
MFA Virginia Tech, Creative Writing (Fiction), summa cum laude, 2019-22
BA Temple University Honors Program, English & Film, French minor, cum laude, 2014-18
awards / recognition
2024: Ragdale Foundation residency recipient
2024: Pushcart nomination
2023: semifinalist for Marianne Russo Emerging Writer Award
2023: Kimmel Harding Nelson Center residency recipient
2022: semifinalist for Cecilia Joyce Johnson Emerging Writer Award
2022: runner-up in the Kenyon Review's Short Fiction Contest
2022: University Writing Program Outstanding GTA Award
2021: finalist in Shenandoah's Graybeal-Gowen Prize
2021: semifinalist in American Short(er) Fiction Contest
2021: Emily Morrison Prize for Poetry (3rd place)
2020: winner of Phoebe Journal's Nonfiction Contest
2020: Pushcart nomination
2020: shortlisted in CRAFT's Flash Fiction Contest
2019: shortlisted in CRAFT's Flash Fiction Contest
teaching
2024-25: Instructor of Record, English Composition, University of Cincinnati
2022-24: Facilitator, Literary Affairs of Los Angeles
2022: Instructor of Record, Intro to Creative Writing, Virginia Tech
2022: Workshop Facilitator, Flash CNF, Virginia Tech
2020-21: Instructor of Record, Composition & Rhetoric, Virginia Tech
2020: Instructor of Record, Research Writing, Virginia Tech
2020: Workshop Facilitator, Prose Poetry, Virginia Tech
2019: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Senior Capstone in Fiction, Virginia Tech
2019: Writing Center Coach, Virginia Tech
editorial
current: Assistant Fiction Editor at X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine
2022-23: Audience Editor at Longreads & The Atavist
2022: Features Editor at Carve Magazine
2021-22: Editorial Assistant at The Believer
2021-22: Nonfiction Reader at Carve Magazine
2021: Freelance Writer at Noemi Press
2021: Fiction Editor at the minnesota review
2020: Managing Editor at The New River
2018: Editorial Intern at Hidden River Arts
2017: Editorial Intern at Temple University Press
readings / events
2024: SMALL PRESS NITE with Melissa Broder, The Book Catapult, San Diego
2023: Violent Candy book launch, North Figueroa Books, LA
2023: Third Thursday Artist Talks, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Nebraska City
2023: Birds Aren't Real book launch, Stories Books, LA
2022: Third Year Reading, The Lyric Theatre, Blacksburg
2022: bedfellows x AWP, MAAS Building, Philadelphia
2021: bedfellows little black book release at 215 Festival (Zoom webinar)
2021: GLOSSOLALIA presents: a celebration of creative writing (Zoom webinar)
2020: A conversation w/ Amy Hempel, VT Visiting Writers series (Zoom webinar)
2020: Fall for the Book, Phoebe Journal Zoom webinar (Zoom webinar)
languages
English (native speaker)
French (advanced reader, intermediate writer & speaker)
Japanese (basics)