EDUCATION
University of Houston, Houston, TX, 2024
PhD, Literature and Creative Writing, concentration in fiction
Dissertation Committee: Alex Parsons, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jason Berger, Brian Evenson
Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, 2019
MFA, Creative Writing, concentration in fiction
Thesis Committee: Ed Falco, Lucinda Roy, Matthew Vollmer
Boston University, Boston, MA, 2011
BA, English
TEACHING
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Angelo State University
2024-Present
Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Houston
2019-2024
Workshop Leader, Boldface Writers Conference, University of Houston
2024
Instructor, Inprint, Houston
2020-2024
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Virginia Tech University
2016-2019
LITERARY EDITING
Assistant Fiction Editor, Gulf Coast
Issue 32.2 – Summer/Fall 2020
Issue 33.1 – Winter/Spring 2020
Managing Editor & Reader, the minnesota review
Issue 94, 2019
Issue 89, 2016
ATHLETICS
Academic and Extracurricular Achievement Award, Boston University 2011
NCAA Division 1 Athlete, wrestling, Boston University 2007-2011