Education

PhD, University of Houston, 2012
MFA, University of Maryland, 2006

Specialization

     • Creative Writing
     • Contemporary poetry

Courses

ENGL 200       Creative Writing, Voice, and Community
ENGL 286       Poetry
ENGL 360       Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 460       Advanced Writing
ENGL 464       Poetry Workshop
ENGL 600       Seminar in Verse Composition

Publications

Books
      • Green Island, Tupelo Press, 2024
      • A Forest Almost, Subito Press, 2017

Selected Recent Journal Publications
      • “Where is the Poem” – American Poetry Review 52.6.
      • Essay on composing and revising “Green Island” – underbelly 11.
      • “Green Island,” “Sink”– The Canary 7.
      •  “Circular” – Denver Quarterly 54:2.
      • “Homeowner,” “Make Space” – Conduit 30.
      • “Erasure Poem”– Lana Turner 12.
      • “Dresser”– American Poetry Review 48.5. 
      •  “Forest”– Kenyon Review Vol. XL No. 3.

Other Information

Editor (with Samuel Amadon) of Oversound, a poetry journal:  (www.oversoundpoetry.com)