Courses:

• English 101, 103, 201, 391

Area of expertise:

• Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing

Honors and Recognitions:

• Andrew James Purdy Prize for Short Fiction Honorable Mention, Hollins (2007)
• Cuff-Saunders Scholarship, CMU (2004-2005)
• John E. Warriner Scholarship, CMU (2004-2005)
• Gow-Litzenberger Fiction Award, CMU (2004)

Degrees and Universities:

• Hollins University, MFA
• Central Michigan University, BS

Publications:

• Short Fiction
  - “Hard Winter,” appeared in December 2007,  Paradigm Anthology #1.
  - “Hard Winter,” appeared in Fall 2006, Paradigm online.
  - “The Living,” appeared in Spring 2006, The Harrow online.
  - “Cold and Smooth,” appeared in Fall 2004, Temenos online.
• Nonfiction
  - “The Brotherhood of Idiots,” appeared in June 2007, The Truth About the Fact Anthology, Vol. 2 No. 1.
  - “Bluegrass Recollections,” appeared in 2003, The Fourth River online.
• Poetry
  - One Poem, “Tracing,” appeared in Spring 2007, Temenos print anthology.
  - Three poems, “Tracing,” “12:10 p.m.,” and “Of Wood and Stone,” 2007, Temenos online

Conference Presentations:

• Creative Nonfiction, “The Brotherhood of Idiots,”(2008 Symposium of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature [SSML])
• Fiction Reading, “The Living,” (SSML, 2004)
• “Wildness and Domesticity in Toni Morrison’s Sula,” (SSML, 2004)