CV/Resume

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See below for my artistic CV

Awards

  • Participant, 2019 Hadley Creative Class,  The Community Foundation and Creative Capital. (2018)
  • Finalist, Kentucky Writer’s Fellowship, Baltic Writers (2017 and 2018)
  • Recipient, Hopscotch House Retreat from the Kentucky Foundation for Women (2017)
  • Nomination, Pushcart Prize (2016)
  • Honorable Mention, James Hearst Poetry Prize (2013)
  • Recipient, Emerging Artist Award from the Kentucky Arts Council (2012)
  • Finalist, Sarabande Books Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature (2012)
  • Recipient, Toyota Alumni Grant, Kentucky Center Governor’s School for the Arts (2011)
  • Recipient, Next Generation Leadership Grant, National Nonprofit Alliance (2010)
  • Recipient, Fuse the Muse Artist Grant, Rowan County Arts Center (2010)
  • Second Place, Sarabande Books Flo Gault Poetry Prize (2009)
  • First Place, Sarabande Books Flo Gault Poetry Prize (2008)
  • Honorable Mention,Sarabande Books Flo Gault Poetry Prize (2008)
  • Finalist, Jim Wayne Miller Creative Nonfiction Contest (2008)

Publications

  • “Thirteen,” 2 River (2018)
  • “Mindfulness of Minnows,” Helen Literary Magazine (2018)
  • “Apologies to My Mother Before My 28th Birthday,” 2 River (2017)
  • “Cat Calls at Girls Who Don’t Smile,” Helen Literary Magazine (2017)
  • “The Bodies,” Prick the Spindle (2017)
  • “Insomnia” and “Unpopular Bodies,” Anima (2016)
  • “Roadkill” and “Take me,” Kudzu (2016)
  • “Tangled” and “Subject,” The Louisville Review (2016)
  • “Middle Child Syndrome,” North American Review (2013)
  • “Jellyfish” and “Peaches and Coconuts,” Whiskey Island (2013)
  • “New Stories,” ABZ (2012)
  • “Lost Concepts,” “Four Years Later” and “88 Distances,” Dark Sky Magazine (2012)
  •  “Premeditations on Separation,” Young American Poets Blog (2011)
  •  “Waiting on the Scientist” and “About the Polish Man after his Suicide,” The Peacock’s Feet (2010)
  • “Her Father,” Sarabande Books, Broadside Publication (2008)
  •  “Why my Mother Falls Asleep on the Couch,” The Albion Review (2008)
  • “Women of the Poets” forward poem in The Poet’s Wife Speaks. Mary Ellen Miller. Old Seventy Creek Press, (2011)
  • “The Woman from the Blue House Next Door”, “Her Father”, “Poem to myself at 20,” The Poetry Gymnasium. Tom C. Hunley. McFarland & Co., Inc, (2011)

Performances, Commissions and Public Readings

  • Produced Play, Play, “Catcall 2024: Or Why Men Now Cry in Public”, Produced by the GRIOT PROJECT, Louisville, KY (2018)
  • Commission,Kentucky Center Governor’s School for the Arts. My poem “Insomnia” was choreographed and performed. (2016)
  • Featured Reader, Spalding at 21c Reading Series (2016)
  • Commission, Commemorative gift poem for Leadership Kentucky (2015)
  • Featured Reader, Spalding at 21c Reading Series (2016)
  • Featured Reader, Flying Out Loud Reading Series (2015)
  • Featured Reader,Spalding at the Speed Reading Series (2015)
  • Featured Reader, INKY Reading Series (2014)

Conferences and Workshops

  • Participant, Writing workshop with Ada Limon (2018)
  • Participant, Playwriting workshop with Jane Jones, Actors Theatre (2018)
  • Participant, Writer’s Block Festival, poetry workshop with Lindsay Tigue (2017)
  • Participant, Louisville Literary Arts, poetry workshop with Julia Story (2017)
  • Participant, Association of Writing Program Conference, Washington DC (2017)
  • Participant, Louisville Literary Arts, poetry workshop with Lynelle Edwards and Kathleen Driskell (2016)
  • Participant, Tupelo Press 30/30 Poetry Project (2015)
  • Participant, Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, Advanced Poetry Workshop with Kathleen Driskell (2014)
  • Participant, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, Amherst, MA. Poetry workshop with Dara Wier (2012)
  • Participant, Louisville Writer’s Block Conference, poetry workshop with Catherine Bowman (2011)
  • Presenter, “Sketches from the Writing Workshop: The Ways we have Failed Each Other” Western Kentucky University Undergraduate Conference on Literature, Language, and Culture. (2010)
  • Participant, Western Kentucky University,Winter Writing Workshop with George Ella Lyon. (2010)
  • Presenter, “Continuing Communication” Western Kentucky University English Conference (2007)

Work as an Arts Administrator and Cultivator of Artistic Communities

  • Fund for the Arts
                Manager of Events and Volunteers, (2017-Current)
  • Kentucky Center Governor’s School for the Arts
                Program and Alumni Coordinator, (2013-2017)
  • Spalding University MFA in Writing Program
                Reading Series Coordinator, (2015-2017)

Education

Spalding University Master of Fine Arts in Writing (attended 2015-2017)
Completed some course requirements toward MFA in Writing

Western Kentucky University (2011)   
Bachelor of Arts in English (Creative Writing)
and Nonprofit Administration

 Kentucky Center Governor’s School for the Arts (2006)
Creative Writing