Select publications, commissions, and editorial positions held. Full resume available upon request.

Creative Prose & Poetry

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

Book Reviews

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

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