Summary
Research Interests
- Place-based writing
- Writing the American West
- Genre studies
- Creative writing in the composition classroom
Publications/Honors
- “Prospecting” – decomP Magazine (May 2016)
- “Artifacts Worth Saving” – shortlisted for Green Mountains Review’s Neil Shepard Prize (February 2018)
- “Phasing Out” – Drunk Monkeys (August 2018)
- “A Division of Labor” – Juked (January 2019)
- “Learning to Ration” – Tahoma Literary Review (March 2019)
- “A Diminished Chord” – Typehouse Magazine (April 2020)
- “Alternate Route Suggested” – Bull Magazine (March 2021)
- “Perennial” – Beacon Quarterly (August 2021)
- “Backscatter” – shortlisted for december’s Curt Johnson Prize (May 2022)
- “Free to a Good Home” – longlisted for the Desperate Literature Prize (2024)
- “Personae” – forthcoming in Wigleaf
- Matter Out of Place – short story collection forthcoming from the University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä Press
Education
- Ph.D. in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Missouri
- MFA in English (Fiction) from the University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno
- MA in English from the University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno
- BA in English from the University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno