Writing and Accomplishments
Publications
Poetry :
"Elegy to My Mother's Breasts." Poets.org
"Time and All Eternity: Years 1-5." Wayfare
"Ode to the Great Salt Lake." Poetry Wales 59.3 Spring 2024.
"Postpartum Anxiety and Horses." Cimmaron Review.
“Estrogen Gives and Estrogen Takes.” Citron Review. 2021
“At My Brother’s House.” The Pinch. 2019.
“Boy Falls into Yellowstone Geyser.” Inscape. 2017
“The Aptitude Test.” Inscape. 2014
Short Story :
“When Things Start Decomposing.” Inscape. 2015
Book Reviews :
"David Lee’s Newest Collection Mines the Gems and the Dross.” 15 Bytes. 2020
Awards:
Voertman/ Academy of America Poets Prize Winner 2024
AWP Honorable Mention 2024
Clinton F. Larson Poetry Contest Finalist 2024
Voertman-Ardoin Fellow at University of North Texas, Fall 2020-Spring 2023
Winner of Ellipsis Poetry Workshop with Miriam Greenberg at Westminster University. 2021
First Place Award in Mayhew Poetry Contest. 2018
Second Place Award in Mayhew Essay Contest. 2018
Other Experience
Teaching and Presenting
Poetry Reading for American Literary Review 2024
Poetry reading at Mormon Scholars in the Humanities 2024
"George Herbert's Performative Speech Acts" at Mormon Scholars in the Humanities 2024
Poetry reading at Mormon Scholars in the Humanities 2023
Poetry reading at LDS Artists Retread 2023
Teaching Fellow at University of North Texas 2023-Present
Freshman Writing Composition
Introduction to Creative Writing
Adjunct Professor at Brigham Young University 2015-2023
Writing and Rhetoric
Introduction to Creative Writing
Fiction Writing Workshop
Adjunct Professor at Salt Lake Community College | 2019
Introduction to Poetry
Judge, English Category, Salt Lake Regional Sterling Scholar Competition, 2021-2023
Internships
Introduction to Creative Writing with Lance Larsen | 2017
Travel Writing with Steven Tuttle| 2017
Poetry Editor, Inscape 2016
Nonfiction Editor, Inscape 2015