CV
Education
M.F.A. in Writing (Concentration in Poetry & Translation)
Vermont College of Fine Arts (2014-2016)
Critical Thesis: “Red Scar in the Sky: The Function of Surrealism in the Late Poetry of Sylvia Plath”
Creative Thesis: The Apathy of Clouds, a full-length collection of poems
Graduating Lecture: “Robert Lowell: Discontent as Catalyst”
B.S. in Philosophy & English, summa cum laude with honors
Suffolk University (2010-2014)
Honors Thesis: “The Pinnacle of Art: Rand’s The Romantic Manifesto and Nietzsche’s The Will to Power”
Experience
NHTI, Concord’s Community College
Lecturer of English & General Studies (2016-present)
Faculty Duties: Team Committee Member
Courses Taught: English Composition, Intro to Literature, Study Strategies, etc.
Professional Writing Center Specialist (2016-present)
Advisor of General Studies (2018-present)
Hunger Mountain, a nationally-ranked literary journal
Manuscript Reader (2015-present)
Plymouth State University
Lecturer of English (2016-2017)
Courses Taught: English Composition, Writing and the Creative Process, Twice-Told Tales, etc.
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Instructor at the Changing Lives Through Literature Program (2014-2015)
Research, Creative, & Teaching Interests
American poetry, nineteenth century through the present, narrative poetry, lyric poetry, persona poetry, poems in sequence, multi-genre creative writing, literary translation, literary editing, first-year writing, university teaching
Publications
Book:
The Apathy of Clouds (July 2018, FutureCycle Press)
Journals:
“False Alarm,” Junto Magazine, Spring 2018
“Salutation,” Woven Tale Press, Spring 2018
“Faculty Meeting Morning After North Korea Launches ICBM,” Rockvale Review, Spring 2018
“Found,” Misfit Magazine, Spring 2018
“Campfire” & “Elegy at the Nursing Home for the Demented,” Visions International, 2018
“Abortion Clinic,” Aji, Spring 2018
“Furnace,” Massachusetts’s Best Emerging Poets (Z Publishing, 2018)
“When the Pills Stop Working,” Digging Through the Fat, Fall 2017
“Poem Beginning with Loneliness,” Misfit Magazine, Summer 2017
“Loneliness Becoming Snowfall in a Storm,” Lit.Cat, June 2017
“From My Window,” Lit.Cat, June 2017
“Little Consolation,” Aji, Fall 2017
“When the Lithium Stops Working,” Outsider, Summer 2017
“Erotophobia,” Superstition Review, Spring 2017
“Another Episode,” Arcturus, Spring 2017
“House of Light,” “You Wanted a Father” & “God in Boston,” Crack the Spine, Spring 2017
“Newlyweds in the Sarcophagus,” Papercuts, Spring 2017
“Ebb,” The Adirondack Review, Spring 2017
“Twenty Questions,” Adelaide Review, Spring 2017
“Man Painting a Fishing Shack on a Pier,” Coup d’Etat, Spring 2017
“The Heart’s Memory of Sun," Blue Lyra Review, Spring 2017
“Slave Trade Bracelet,” Prime Number, Spring 2017
“In the Land of Fields,” Rabbit Catastrophe Review, Spring 2017
“Things That Tear,” Anamesa, Fall 2016
“Stain,” Burningword Literary Journal, Fall 2016
“Photo of an Excavated Grace,” The Cooweescoowee, Fall 2016
“Dancing with My Grandfather,” Corvus Review, Fall 2016
“Elegy for a Death in Utero” & “Old Town Square, Prague,” Contemporary American Voices, Fall 2016
“Study of a Mosquito,” Chaotic Review, Fall 2016
“Ghost of the Face Painter in the Park,” Eunoia Review, Fall 2016
“Cousin’s Body,” Your One Phone Call, Fall 2016
“Overcast,” Apple Valley Review, Summer 2016
“October Hurricane,” The Missing Slate, Summer 2016
“Apply-Picking,” The Grief Diaries, Summer 2016
“Untitled Photograph,” Route Seven Review, Spring 2016
“Washing the Corpse” (translation), Ricochet Review, Spring 2016
“Empty Streets,” “Someone is Beating a Woman” & “The Cemetery,” The Writing Disorder, Spring 2016
“Post-Traumatic,” Reed Magazine, 2016
“Playground,” Aji, Summer 2016
“Swimming Pool,” Red Earth Review, Summer 2016
“Foreclosure,” Grey Sparrow, Summer 2016
“Motel,” “October” & “Luck,” Gival Press, Winter 2015
“House Fire,” Touchstone Magazine, Winter 2015
“Deadbeats,” Falling Star Magazine, Winter 2015
“Moving to a Different State” & “Condom,” West Trade Review, Winter 2015
“Fireworks,” Black Denim Literature, Fall 2015
“Farewell, Krakow,” & “Euthanasia,” Drunk Monkeys, Fall 2015
“Kittens,” Torrid Literature, Fall 2015
“Farewell,” Cargo Literary Journal, Fall 2015
“On the Death of My Cousin” & “Euthanasia II,” After the Pause, Fall 2015
“Assisted Living” & “Dementia,” Poetry Quarterly, Fall 2015
“After a Miscarriage,” Tule Review, Fall 2015
“Hot Peppers,” Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, Fall 2015
“Show Dogs” & “Elegy for Aidan,” Belleville Park Pages, Summer 2015
“Silent Documentary,” Straight Forward Poetry, Summer 2015
“Learning Father,” The Homestead Review, Summer 2015
“Willow," Visions International, Summer 2015
“The Past," Blue Lyra Review, Summer 2015
“I Regret,” Smoky Blue Literary Arts Magazine, Summer 2015
“Savoir Faire” & “Diatribe Against the Dead," Reunion: The Dallas Review, 2015
“Give Me,” Peculiar Mormyrids, Summer 2015
“Walk-in Closet,” Calliope, Summer 2015
“Tourists,” The Mas Tequila Review, Summer 2015
“Seventh Birthday” & “Last Day Cruising,” The Bayou Review, Winter 2014
“Cambodian House for the Dying,” Three and a Half Point Nine, Winter 2014
“Words from Blood” & “The Last Toast," Verse-Virtual, Fall 2014
“Lot’s Wife” (translation) & “World’s End,” Poetry Pacific, Fall 2014
“Veterans” & “Maggiacomo,” Empty Sink Publishing, Fall 2014
“Secret Cemetery,” Cardinal Sins, Fall 2014
“The Fourth We Met,” Four Ties Lit Review, Summer 2014
“Little Lake Sunapee,” Misfit Magazine, Summer 2014
“Occupy Prague,” Shout Out UK, Summer 2014
“Overgrown Hedges,” Literature Today, Summer 2014
“Adirondack Chairs,” Gravel, Summer 2014
“The Tiber,” Apeiron Review, Winter 2013
“Beyond Good and Evil,” Stone Highway Review, Winter 2013
“Lullaby,” Misfit Magazine, Winter 2013
Honors & Awards
“House of Light” nominated for Pushcart Prize and Houghton Mifflin “Best of” anthology
“Found” selected as featured poem of the month for Better Than Starbucks, Spring 2018
“Condom” nominated for Pushcart Prize, 2017
“Slave Trade Bracelet” selected as “Poem of the Month” for Press 53, 2016
“October Hurricane” selected as “Poem of the Week” for The Missing Slate, 2016
“Seventh Birthday” selected as winner of “Rock the Chair Contest” for Yellow Chair Review
“Walk-in Closet” nominated for Pushcart Prize, 2016
“Poet of the Month” for Poetry Superhighway, 2016
“Poet of the Month” for Contemporary American Voices, 2016
“Adirondack Chairs” nominated for Pushcart Prize, 2015
“Injury” nominated for Pushcart Prize, 2015
“Poet of the Month” for Poet’s Toolkit, 2015
Robert K. Johnson Poetry Prize, 2014
Garvin Tate Merit Scholarship, 2014
Media Engagements
Wordsmith Interview with Crack the Spine, Fall 2017
Interview with The Missing Slate, Fall 2016
Interview with Verse-Virtual, Spring 2016
Interview with St. John’s Preparatory School, Summer 2016
Interview with Misfit Magazine, Winter 2015
Readings
Sussex County Writer’s Roundtable Keynote Reading, Newtown, NJ June 2017
New Hampshire Technical Institute, Concord, NH March 2017
Betty June Silconas Poetry Festival Keynote Reader, Newtown, NJ June 2016
Vermont College of Fine Arts Graduate Reading, Montpelier, VT July 2016
Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT December 2015
Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT July 2015
Suffolk University, January 2014
Presentations
Co-Presenter, Vermont College of Fine Arts, “Poetry of Resistance,” Montpelier, VT Summer 2017
Co-Presenter, Vermont College of Fine Arts, “Life After the MFA,” Montpelier, VT Summer 2017
Co-Presenter, Vermont College of Fine Arts, “Poetics of Translation,” Montpelier, VT Winter 2016
Presenter, University of Massachusetts Student Day of Poetry (Massachusetts Poetry Festival), “Poetics of Translation,” Boston, MA Winter 2016
Presenter, Framingham High School Student Day of Poetry (Massachusetts Poetry Festival), “Poetics of Translation,” Boston, MA Summer 2016