Department of English

Academic Specialties:

Contemporary American Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, Film, and Creative Writing

Education:

• Ph.D., English, University of North Dakota
• M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• B.F.A., Creative Writing, Penn State Behrend

Selected Publications:

• "Diamond Dads." Pithead Chapel, 2022 .
• "Taking the Bait." Cleaver Magazine, 2018.
• "B-Side." Digging Through the Fat, 2016.
• "Returning Train(s)." North Dakota Quarterly, 2016.
• "County Road Q." drafthorse, 2014.
• "Arriving on Time: Postcard to Centennial." Blue Bear Review, 2012.
• "Arriving on Time: I-79." Rusty Typer, 2011.
• "Sixteen Mile Flood." Lake Effect, 2008.

Awards:
2015 Thomas McGrath Poetry Award, Academy of American Poets

Presentations:

• "New Writing from Watauga County." Appalachian Studies Association Conference; Morgantown, WV. March 17-20, 2022.
• "Craft Talk: Fiction." University of North Dakota Writers Conference; Grand Forks, ND. April 6-8, 2016.
• "Finding Your Voice in Northern Appalachian Writing." Writers Conference of Northern Appalachia; Wheeling, WV. September 6-8, 2019.