PUBLICATIONS
“La Morte del Nonno” | BULL
Fiction. Forthcoming.
“Crafting First-Person Narrators: Lessons from Toni Morrison’s A Mercy” | Appalachian Review
Craft essay. Summer 2022: Volume 50, Issue 3.
“Volunteer” | The Florida Review
Fiction. Fall 2022: Volume 46, Issue 2.
“Relax Your Face, Clint” | Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction, Best American Essays 2022
Creative Nonfiction. Eds. Alexander Chee, Robert Atwan.
“Relax Your Face, Clint” | New England Review
Creative Nonfiction. Winter 2021: Volume 42, Issue 4.
“The Watchmaker” | The Carolina Quarterly
Fiction. July 2021: Online feature.
“Insomnia” | Ghost Parachute: 105 Flash Fiction Stories
Flash fiction. May 2021: Print anthology.
“Paralysis” | Arts & Letters
Flash fiction. Spring 2021: Issue 42.
“Maid of the Mist” | The Madison Review
Fiction. Fall 2019.
“Film and Literature Holding Hands: Reflecting on Jordan Peele’s Us” | the minnesota review
Film review. March 2019.
“Colossus” | Typehouse Literary Magazine
Fiction. 2018: Volume 5, No. 3, Issue 15.
“Insomnia” | Ghost Parachute
Flash fiction. November 2017.
“Cutting” | BULL
Fiction. November 2017.
AWARDS
Scholarship Recipient in Prose, Napa Valley Writers Conference, 2024
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Houston, 2024
Teaching Excellence Award, Office of the Provost, University of Houston, 2023
Creative Writing Fellowship, University of Houston Creative Writing Program, 2023
Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction list, Best American Essays, 2022
Donald Barthelme Memorial Prize in Nonfiction, Inprint, Houston, 2022
“Relax Your Face, Clint.” Judge: Allie Rowbottom
Pushcart Prize nomination, 2017, 2018, 2021
Media and Moving Image Prize, University of Houston, 2021
“Relax Your Face, Clint.” Jury: Brian Belovarac, Yoon Kim, Rick Quan
Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship, Inprint, Houston, 2019
Presidential Fellowship, University of Houston, 2019
Emily Morrison Prize in Fiction, third place, Virginia Tech University, 2019
“Maid of the Mist.” Judge: Corinna Vallianatos
Byron Society of America Travel Grant, University of Virginia, 2018
Emily Morrison Prize in Fiction, first place, Virginia Tech University, 2017
“Cutting.” Judge: Susanna Daniel
READINGS & PRESENTATIONS
Boldface Writers Conference, Workshop Leaders Reading, University of Houston, 2024
27th Angelo State Writers Conference, Angelo State University, 2024
Gulf Coast Reading Series, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, 2023
26th Angelo State Writers Conference, Angelo State University, 2023
Poetry & Prose Reading Series, University of Houston, 2019
Deschutes Literary Reading Series, Deschutes Brewery Tasting Room, Roanoke, VA, 2018
International Student Byron Conference, Missolonghi, Greece, 2018
Presenter, accepted paper, “The Byronic Hero in Blood Meridian”
Reading and Book Release for Ed Falco, Virginia Tech University, 2017
Introduced Ed Falco for a reading from his book of poems, Wolf Moon Blood Moon