Publications

  • “Why I Hate Mayonnaise”: The Sun Magazine, Forthcoming

  • “One For You, One For Me: Reading Substance Addicted Characters”: Oh, Reader Magazine, Forthcoming September 2025

  • No Heroic Measures; A Memoir: Santa Fe Writers Project, Spring 2026

  • “Blueberries”: The Aerie, May 2022

  • “Crooked Things”: Creative Guts, November 2021

  • “Death Then CrossFit”: The Tishman Review, January 2018

  • “No Heroic Measures”: Mud City Journal, January 2017

  • “18 Minute Chili”: The Craft Talk, November 2016

  • Guest Nonfiction Editor, End of the World, January 2016

  • “Lawn Chairs”: Thin Air Magazine, Spring 2016

  • “No Heroic Measures”: Chapter House Journal, Spring 2016

  • “Cherry Red Dress”: Gold Man Review, Fall 2015

  • “Holding a Chair”: Consequence Magazine, Winter 2015

  • “Four Weeks”: Crux Literary Journal, June 2013

  • “Sorry, Mom”: Wild Quarterly, April 2014

    Honors and Awards

  • Finalist 2023 Literary Awards judged by Deesha Philyaw, Spring 2024

  • Semi-Finalist for New Millenniums Writing Contest, Spring 2022

  • Semi-finalist in the VanderMey Nonfiction Prize with Ruminate Magazine, 2021

  • Semi-Finalist for New Millenniums Writing Contest, Spring 2022

  • Finalist for Iowa Review Nonfiction Contest, judged by Eula Biss, May 2016
    Lucy Grealy Nonfiction Award Nominee, June 2016


Conferences, Readings, and Speaking Invitations

  • Facilitator, “Crafting and Curating Your Own Story”: National Veterans Memorial Museum, September, 2023

  • Presenter, “On Love and Service; Using Memoir to Engender Empathy”: Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, March 2020 

  • Co-Presenter, “Memoir As a Life Tool”: Cui Bono Conference, March 2018

  • Guest Speaker, “On Service to Others and Grief”: Symposium on Athletics and the Arts, November 2017

  • Invited Reader, “On Going Home Again”: The Write Nite, CUI, March 2017

  • Presenter, “Travels With the Boy I was Never Supposed to Have”: John R. Milton Writers’ Conference, October 2016

Residencies and Fellowships

  • Alumni Fellow in Nonfiction, Bennington College, Winter 2025 Residency

  • Student Liaison and Residential Coordinator, Bennington College, 2017 - 2020, Jan 2024

  • Dorland Arts Colony Artist in Residence, July 2016, October 2017, December 2023

  • Olympic Valley Community of Writers, Memoir Scholarship Recipient, July 2017