Directory

Education

• MFA, Purdue University 2006
• BS, Syracuse University 1997

Publications

• Imagine Your Life Like This. University of Wisconsin Press, 2023.
• The Invisible Art of Literary Editing, co-authored with Bryan Furuness. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
• The Story I Tell Myself About Myself. Sonder Press, 2018.
• Trip Through Your Wires. Engine Books, 2015.

Short fiction in Boston Review, Stone Canoe, Blackbird, Sudden Flash Youth, The Evansville Review, Best Microfiction 2020, Zone 3, failbetter.com, and elsewhere. Poems in Gargoyle Magazine, Reed Magazine, Blood Orange Review, juked, Tipton Poetry Journal, and Sweet. Recent essays, interviews and articles in The Washington Post, Salon, Poets & Writers, Newsweek, The Millions, The Humanist, The Writer’s Chronicle, and Indianapolis Monthly.

Awards

• IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute Grant, 2022
• Trustees’ Teaching Award, 2022
• Release Time for Research Grant, 2022
• Shipps Travel Award, 2021
• Indiana Arts Commission Individual Advancement Program, 2019
• EMPOWER Grant, 2019
• English Department Praxis Award, 2017
• Outstanding Associate Faculty Lecturer, 2014

Academic Interests

Creative writing, literary publishing, composition, literature, first-year success

Service

• Faculty advisor to genesis literary and art magazine
• National Writing Project teacher consultant, Hoosier Writing Project.
• Advanced Institute, Hoosier Writing Project, Summer 2009.
• Associate Faculty Coalition, Vice President, 2009-11. Associate Faculty Coalition, President, 2011-2014.