Creative Writing


Awards & Honors

  • 2022 Finalist, The Bellingham Review's Tobias Wolff Prize for Fiction

  • 2022 Finalist, The Bellingham Review's Annie Dillard Prize for Creative Nonfiction

  • 2022 Finalist, The Missouri Review's Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize (Fiction)

  • 2020–2021 Creative University Undergraduate Teaching Fellow

  • 2021 Finalist, The Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize (Creative Nonfiction)

  • 2020 Honorable Mention, New Letters’ Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction

  • 2019–2020 Print Nonfiction Editor of the Columbia Journal

  • 2019 Artist in Residence at AARK in Korppoo, Finland


Selected Publications

“I Didn’t Know We Could Do Those Things,” The Missouri Review

“The Reservoir Is a One-Way Path,” Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine

“Review: Save Yourself by Carmen Esposito,” Columbia Journal

“Review: Heartland by Sarah Smarsh,” Columbia Journal

“Review: Sweetbitter,” Rain Taxi Review Of Books

“Adidas in a snit over Riedell’s skate stripes,” Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal

“Ghost Productions sees growth in catering to the device industry” Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal 2011