Select publications, commissions, and editorial positions held. Full resume available upon request.
Creative Prose & Poetry
- “For Others: A Continuum,” Qual Bell Magazine 2020
- “Godzilla Gets a Pedicure,” Sheriff Nottingham 2018
- “Figureheads,” Sierra Nevada Review 2017
- “Kintsugi: A Dinner Theatre,” This Bridge Called Language (forthcoming)
- “The Needle/Work Variations,” Luna Luna 2017
- “The Guilt of Words He Cannot Spell,” The Transnational 2016, Republished in Luna Luna 2016
- “M.C. Escher’s Contractor at the Neighborhood Pub,” The A3 Review 2016
- “Parrot:Swan / Swan:Parrot,” Baldhip Magazine 2016
- “Dried Fruits,” The Literary Commune 2015 (print only)
- “Susie Rides a Bird,” Barrelhouse 2015
- “A Study of Hands,” Hippocampus 2015
- “We Will Become Discarded Toys,” Psychopomp Magazine 2014 (Best of the Net nominee, Pushcart Prize nominee)
- “Airborne Creatures,” WordRiot 2010
Playwriting
- Changemakers workshop reading by Lees-McRae College, 2020
- Glass Bottles (full-length) production forthcoming by Federal Theatre Project
- “By the Hand of a Woman,” produced by Keegan Theatre/Womxn on Fire Festival, 2019
- Glass Bottles (full-length version) reading produced by Federal Theatre Project at The Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage Festival, 2018
- “Exercises & Reps,” produced by Federal Theatre Project/One Year Later Festival, 2017
- “Glass Bottles,” produced by Federal Theatre Project/One Year Later Festival, 2017
- “Glass Bottles,” produced by Stay Awake Theatre/New York Prism Festival, 2017
- “Glass Bottles,” reading by Theater Alliance/Planet Earth Arts New Play Festival, 2017
- A Christmas Carol Memory, commissioned & produced by Creative Cauldron, 2017
- Aesop’s Fables, commissioned & produced by Creative Cauldron, 2011
- Tinner Hill: Portraits in Black and White, commissioned & produced by Creative Cauldron, 2010; subsequent productions in 2011 & 2015
- “Odds Are,” produced by Marist College, 2005
- “Monsters in the Closet,” produced by Marist College
- “Flying Lessons,” workshop production by Capital Repertory Theatre
- “Flying Lessons,” produced by Marist College, 2004
Essays
- “Art in the Age of Authenticity,” Luna Luna 2015
- “Jessica Jones is the Feminist Antihero...,”
Luna Luna 2015 - “Pretty Sentences about Exploding Helicopters,” DCCAH, 2015
- “Thinking of You Even Though You’re Not Like Us,” Luna Luna 2014
- “IHTM: I Spent a Year in a Hippie Commune,”
xoJane 2013
Book Reviews
- The Girls of Peculiar by Catherine Pierce
- Wolf Skin by Mary McMyne
- Something In the Potato Room by Heather Cousins
- Half the Kingdom by Lore Segal
- Seven Lives and One Great Love: Memoirs of a Cat by Lena Divani
- Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds by Patrick Lawler
Editorial
- Prose Editor, ink&coda, 2013 – 2017
- Editor in Chief, So to Speak, 2007 – 2009
- Editor in Chief, The Artisan, 2006 – 2007
- Associate Editor, The Weekly Beat, 2005 – 2006
- Managing Editor/Co-Founder, Generator, 2003 – 2005
Miscellaneous & Commissions
- Staff writer, Luna Luna Magazine, 2015 – 2016
- Staff writer, DC Theatre Scene, 2014 – 2016
- Contributing writer, The Studio Theatre season performance guide 2015
- Contributing writer, theatreWashington.org, 2012 – 2014
- Contributing writer, The Studio Theatre season performance guide, 2012
- Contributing writer, Pulse Magazine, 2005 – 2006
Readings & Presentations
- Tupelo Press: 30/30 Poetry Alumni Reading, AWP off-site event – 2017
- Inner Loop Reading Series 2016 Inaugural Writers-in-Residence Reading, Washington, DC – 2016
- Inner Loop Reading Series Anniversary Reading, Washington, DC – 2016
- Exhibition Opening, ReCreative Spaces, Washington, DC – 2016
- Hey You, Come Back Reading Series, Baltimore, MD – 2016
- Inner Loop Reading Series, Washington, DC – 2015
- Southern Writers Symposium, Fayetteville, NC – 2015
- George Mason University MFA Reading, Fairfax, VA – 2010
- Loud Fire Reading Series, Fairfax, VA – 2009
- Candid Yak Reading Series, Fairfax, VA – 2008
- The Chris & Chris Radio Poetry Show, Poughkeepsie, NY – 2005
Awards
- Recipient, Individual Artist Fellowship, DCCAH – 2019
- Winner, Brian Turner Literary Arts Prize, Nonfiction – 2017
- Recipient, Individual Artist Fellowship, DCCAH – 2017
- Finalist, Larry Neal Writer’s Award, Poetry – 2016
- Winner, The A3 Review Flash Fiction Contest – 2016
- Winner, Southern Writers Emerging Writer Award, Poetry – 2015
- Finalist, Larry Neal Writer’s Award, Fiction – 2015
- Recipient, Individual Artist Fellowship, DCCAH – 2015
- Nominee, Best of the Net Award, Fiction – 2014
- Nominee, Pushcart Prize, Fiction – 2014
- Recipient, Fulbright Fellowship, Slovak Republic – 2006
- Runner-Up, The Mosaic Fiction Award – 2005
- Recipient, John P. Anderson Playwriting Award – 2004
Memberships: Dramatists Guild of America, Theatre Communications Group, Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Sigma Tau Delta
Executive Certificate in Art & Culture Strategy, UPenn, 2020
M.F.A., George Mason University 2010 / B.A., Marist College 2005 / Girls Preparatory School 2001