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Education

MA Creative Writing Fiction, UT Austin 2010

BA English, Brown University, 1996

Courses Taught

• ENGLISH 100 - Introduction to College Writing and Reading
• ENGLISH 102 - College Writing and Research
• ENGLISH 233 - Introduction to Creative Writing

Via City College of San Francisco Arts Extension, various creative writing classes since 2015: Writers' Lab, The World in a Thimble: Short-Form Creative Writing, Writing as a Pathway Back to Self and Center, The Secret Lives of Things: Writing from Objects, The Mythopolitical, Poetry Workshop, Intermediate Fiction, Intro to Fiction

Teaching Interests

• New Materialism
• ecoliterature
• prose poetry
• non-workshop-based creative writing pedagogies and flipped/process-based classrooms

Research Interests

Eco-theory, artist residencies and socioarchitecture, language as metaphysics, language's relationship to healing/somatics, the narrative history of objects, fiction and identity, subcultural history, the attempts and failures of collectivism, lyric prose

Related Activities

• “Writing as Electron." 5th Writing Innovation Symposium, Marquette University, 2023. Conference poster/creative writing station
• “Why Have We Gathered Here? Tracking Differences in Adult Education and Undergraduate Creative Writing.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2023. Conference talk
• “Challenging the Norms of Academic Writing.” Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Virtual Teaching and Learning Symposium, UW-Milwaukee, 023. Co-presenter
• Alternative Assessment Working Group, Co-facilitator, 2022-present.
• “‘Pure Craft Is a Lie: Now What? Creative Writing Pedagogy in Action.” Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC), 2021. Roundtable presenter
• Art Editor, cream city review, 2019-2021.
• “Teaching Creative Writing in Community Settings.” Mills College MFA Program conference, 2017. Panelist

Academic Awards

• Graduate Student Excellence Fellowship (GSEF), 2022-23
• Chancellor's Award, 51ÁÔÆæ 2019-20
• Keene Prize for Literature, UT Austin 2010
• James A. Michener Fellowship, UT Austin Spring Semester 2010

Selected Publications