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, forthcoming 2024
      • A Forest Almost, Subito Press, 2017

Selected Recent Journal Publications
      • "A Clearing." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment (forthcoming).
      • “Circular.” Denver Quarterly 54:2 (2020). 
      • “Leave.” Crazyhorse 97 (2020). 
      • “Erasure Poem.” Lana Turner 12 (2019). 
      • “Narrative Poem.” The Volta: Heir Apparent 48 (2019).  
      • “Dresser.” American Poetry Review 48.5 (2019). 
      • “Forest.” Kenyon Review Vol. XL No. 3 (2018). 
      • “Subway Ride, Spring 2002.” Poetry CCIX (2016). 
      • “The End Is Always Sudden.” American Poetry Review 45.3 (2016).

Other Information

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