select publications

fiction

Soft & Solid: A Letter - Self-published chapbook
“Your Best Friend’s Father” - Hypertext Magazine

nonfiction

“To the man who asked me if I was a man or a woman,” - TriQuarterly
“Cornfed” - Jet Fuel Review. Best of the Net 2020 nominee
“To Mold a Star without Burning ” - Lunch Ticket. Diana Woods Memorial Award Finalist 2018
I attempted to write 52 essays in 2017: A Year in Essays
“For Girls Who Straddle Seasons” - Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology
"Summer” - Wahala Zine
“Fifty Ways to Feed a Fire” - James Franco Review
“Apologia” - Moonsick Magazine (now defunct)
“Capacities of Being” - The Quarry

poetry

“The Uncursing of Medusa” - Unwoven
“Letter to S. on a Cold, February Night” - Pearl Press
“Bright Bloom” - Cento by Helene Achanzar for Chicago Poetry Center’s 50th Anniversary
“because we are ours, no matter the distance” - Chicago Reader
“Cherries” - Interim
“Omniscience” - The Harpoon Review
“Panic” - Incandescent Mind

other

“We Grow Together” drawing series - Journal of Thank You

work experience

Spare Jar Consulting - Principal | March 2023 - Present

Chicago Poetry Center - Poet-in-Residence | Sept. 2022 - Present

SWARM Artist Residency - Seasonal Hive Queen | Jan. 2024 - Present

Vagabond City Lit - Nonfiction Editor | Sept. 2020 - July 2024

826michigan - Institutional Giving Strategist | May 2022 - August 2023

Ingenuity - Creative Schools Fund Manager | July 2020 - June 2022

Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) -
Literary Panelist, Individual Artist Program |
Feb. - March 2022,  Dec. 2018 - Jan. 2019

826CHI - Development Manager + Teaching Artist | Sept. 2016 - June 2020
“Poets in Revolt!” workshop inspired a nationwide student anthology.

workshops & residencies

Swarm Artist Residency (West Branch, Iowa), July 2024
In Surreal Life, January 2024
GOD !!!! ???? Workshop, Warman School, Oct/Nov 2022
Swarm Artist Residency (West Branch, Iowa), July 2022
Speakeasy Project: Growth Workshop, January 2022
Speakeasy Project: Side by Side,  July 2021
VONA/Voices Intensive, February 2021
Residency on a Farm (Argyle, WI), July 2019
Winter Tangerine: Orchids Without Attached Thighs, Sept/Oct 2017

readings & appearances

PO Box Collective, December 2024
Poetry On the Green, June 2024
An Inconvenient Hour, January 2023
Blue Hour Reading Series, February 2022
TBD with IRV, September 2020
Book Club with Julia and Victoria, September 2019
Hungry Brain Reading Series, August 2019
House Reading w/ GennaRose Nethercott, April 2019
Volumes Bookstore: Hypertext Mag Fall 2018 launch, November 2018
Miss Spoken, July 2018
Featured reader with Marty McConnell, Poetry Foundation, April 2018
UChicago Writer's Studio, December 2017
Rust Belt Chicago Reading + Panel @ Seminary Co-op, August 2017

education

DePaul University, 2018 | Certificate in Grant Writing
Saint Olaf College, 2011-2015 | B.A. in English and French