Associate Professor
Ph.D., SUNY Albany
Research:
Creative Writing; Environmental Writing; Literary Publishing; Faculty Advisor for the Toyon Literary Magazine; Labor in Higher Education; Histories of Writing Instruction
Courses Taught:
English 311: Environmental Writing
English 315: Creative Writing: Fiction
English 460: Toyon Literary Magazine
Publications:
RECENT PUBLICATIONS (POETRY, CREATIVE NONFICTION):
Unremitting Entrance. New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2015. Print.
"A Keystroke Made." Thirty Days: 30/30 Poets Anthology. North Adams: Tupelo, 2015. Print.
"Introduction to World Peace." Blanket Stories Anthology. New York: Ragged Sky, 2014. Print.
Poems and essays have appeared in Amoskeag, Better: Culture and Lit, Caketrain, Confrontation, Cultural Society,
Inkwell, Lalitamba: Journal of International Writings for Liberation, Requited, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS (SCHOLARSHIP):
Co-author with Renée Byrd, Writing Intersectional Identities: Keywords for Creative Writers (book)
Editor, Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft (book)
Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing: Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Writing Curriculum (book)
