MFA Lecturer for Naropa’s 2024 Summer Writing Program, Reading - June 27, 2024
Amplify Arts Alternating Currents: Collective Learning Outside the Insitution, Panelist - July 26, 2023
PhD in English and Literary Arts and Creative Writing, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, June 2024
MFA in Poetry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, May 2012
BA in English, Creative Writing, Magna Cum Laude, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah, August 2008
PROJECT MANAGEMENT & EDITORIAL WORK
Re/Visionary
Denver Metro Area & Virtual
Creative Facillitation & Educational Consulting
June 2023 – present
Restorative Landscape Design
Project Management
Fall 2024 – present
Landscape Design Apprentice
Fall 2023 – Fall 2024
Colorado State University, English Department
Internship Coordinator
July 2017 – July 2018
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics SWP
Assistant to Artistic Director, Anne Waldman
June 2015
CSU, Crisis & Creativity Symposium
Creative Assistant to the Director, Dan Beachy-Quick
August 2014 – July 2015
EDITORIAL WORK
· Denver Quarterly 56.3, Haptic Acts folio, co-curated with Emily Altman (Spring 2022)
· Denver Quarterly Poetry Editor (2020-2021)
· Denver Quarterly Conversations Editor (2019-2020)
· Denver Quarterly 56.3, Haptic Acts folio, co-curated with Emily Altman (Spring 2022)
· Denver Quarterly Poetry Editor (2020-2021)
· Denver Quarterly Conversations Editor (2019-2020)
EDUCATION AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Vocational Poetics
Fall 2022 – present
Founder, curator (Virtual)
· Curate accessible, process-based creative writing classes to writers working outside of academia via remote Zoom classes, with sliding scale payment, and with scholarships for QTAAPI/BIPOC writers.
· Create and design website and all promotional material, including mission statement, guest teacher features, and social media posts.
· Develop curriculum in conversation with solicitted teaching artists, experimental educators, and community organizers.
· Facilitate development through Substack creation and curation, grant applications, and donor relations.
The Jack Keroac School of Disembodied Poetics
June 2024
Summer Writing Program MFA Lecturer
Regis University Mile High MFA: Adjusting the Signal Fall 2023
Curriculum Developer, Facillitator
· a series in collaboration with Regis University Mile High MFA, including trauma-informed creative writing facilitation, community-engaged grant writing, community-engaged syllabus creation.
Regis University’s Mile-High MFA
July 2023
Visiting Writer – Denver, Colorado
Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop
Spring 2020 – present
Workshop facilitator – Denver, Colorado
Colorado State University, English Department
Fort Collins, Colorado
· Curriculum Co-Developer and Instructor for CSU's Online Creative Writing minor: August 2017 – Present
· Curriculum Developer and Instructor of Record, with CSU’s Bridge Scholars: May 2017 – August 2017
· Instructor of Record – Without Term: August 2016 - August 2018
· Instructor of Record: August 2012 - May 2015
Colorado State University, Community Literacy Center – SpeakOut!
Workshop facilitator
Spring 2017
Vocational Poetics
Fall 2022 – present
Founder, curator (Virtual)
· Curate accessible, process-based creative writing classes to writers working outside of academia via remote Zoom classes, with sliding scale payment, and with scholarships for QTAAPI/BIPOC writers.
· Create and design website and all promotional material, including mission statement, guest teacher features, and social media posts.
· Develop curriculum in conversation with solicitted teaching artists, experimental educators, and community organizers.
· Facilitate development through Substack creation and curation, grant applications, and donor relations.
The Jack Keroac School of Disembodied Poetics
June 2024
Summer Writing Program MFA Lecturer
Regis University Mile High MFA: Adjusting the Signal Fall 2023
Curriculum Developer, Facillitator
· a series in collaboration with Regis University Mile High MFA, including trauma-informed creative writing facilitation, community-engaged grant writing, community-engaged syllabus creation.
Regis University’s Mile-High MFA
July 2023
Visiting Writer – Denver, Colorado
Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop
Spring 2020 – present
Workshop facilitator – Denver, Colorado
Colorado State University, English Department
Fort Collins, Colorado
· Curriculum Co-Developer and Instructor for CSU's Online Creative Writing minor: August 2017 – Present
· Curriculum Developer and Instructor of Record, with CSU’s Bridge Scholars: May 2017 – August 2017
· Instructor of Record – Without Term: August 2016 - August 2018
· Instructor of Record: August 2012 - May 2015
Colorado State University, Community Literacy Center – SpeakOut!
Workshop facilitator
Spring 2017
SELECT WORKS
POETRY
- from the fold | trilobite, Summer 2024
- "physical belonging," "holler" | luigi ten co, Fall 2023
- excerpt from The Manifold | annulet, No. 1, Spring 2022
- excerpts from VERNAL HURT | Deluge, No. 14, Spring 2020
- excerpts from VERNAL HURT | DREGINALD, Issue 19, Spring 2020
- Topographies I & II | La Vague, Issue 10 (2018)
- excerpts from if the garden | kelsey street press blog (2017), featuring work of Firsts! competition finalists
- "the fold” | La Vague, Issue 3 (2014)
- “an other history,” “a grotesque,” “Under story” | Word for/Word, Issue 23 (Winter 2014)
- fragments from “the hungry matter” \ Gazing Grains Press’ miniature series (March 2013) [print]
- [untitled serial poem] | ditch (Winter 2011)
- way water when secret | Otoliths, Issue 18 (Fall 2010)
CHAPBOOKS
TRANSIT | Spiral Editions, Spring 2023
VERNAL HURT | The Magnificent Field, Spring 2020
INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS
- etcetera poetry, Winter 2023
- Amplify Arts, Alternating Currents Panel Discussion: Collective Learning Outside the Institution, July 26, 2023
- interview with Jos Charles (“Where what doesn’t fit a composition becomes a composition”), Denver Quarterly, Vol 53, No 3, 2019 [print]
- Lynn Xu’s Debts and Lessons, The Colorado Review (online), Spring 2014
POETRY
- from the fold | trilobite, Summer 2024
- "physical belonging," "holler" | luigi ten co, Fall 2023
- excerpt from The Manifold | annulet, No. 1, Spring 2022
- excerpts from VERNAL HURT | Deluge, No. 14, Spring 2020
- excerpts from VERNAL HURT | DREGINALD, Issue 19, Spring 2020
- Topographies I & II | La Vague, Issue 10 (2018)
- excerpts from if the garden | kelsey street press blog (2017), featuring work of Firsts! competition finalists
- "the fold” | La Vague, Issue 3 (2014)
- “an other history,” “a grotesque,” “Under story” | Word for/Word, Issue 23 (Winter 2014)
- fragments from “the hungry matter” \ Gazing Grains Press’ miniature series (March 2013) [print]
- [untitled serial poem] | ditch (Winter 2011)
- way water when secret | Otoliths, Issue 18 (Fall 2010)
CHAPBOOKS
TRANSIT | Spiral Editions, Spring 2023
VERNAL HURT | The Magnificent Field, Spring 2020
INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS
- etcetera poetry, Winter 2023
- Amplify Arts, Alternating Currents Panel Discussion: Collective Learning Outside the Institution, July 26, 2023
- interview with Jos Charles (“Where what doesn’t fit a composition becomes a composition”), Denver Quarterly, Vol 53, No 3, 2019 [print]
- Lynn Xu’s Debts and Lessons, The Colorado Review (online), Spring 2014
INSTALLATION
· Auricle (installation piece, some photos pictured right), Art Farm, September 2021 - with co-collaborators: Peach, Z, Jenny, Grace, Ed, Cindy, Rae, Hannah, Mitchell, Liza, Natalie, Leslie, Olivia & Simone, Phoebe, Walker, Josh, Sam, and Ed.
· Auricle (installation piece, some photos pictured right), Art Farm, September 2021 - with co-collaborators: Peach, Z, Jenny, Grace, Ed, Cindy, Rae, Hannah, Mitchell, Liza, Natalie, Leslie, Olivia & Simone, Phoebe, Walker, Josh, Sam, and Ed.