About Me
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My most recent work explores grief, both personal and environmental. I see water as a vehicle for love, loss, and transformation and a point of connection between our bodies and the places we live.
I'm also passionate about the role of the arts in education and the ways in which incorporating social-emotional learning (SEL) into the curriculum can benefit students. My current research interests include empathy in education, particularly empathy as a teachable skill, and exploring the potential that reading, writing, and engaging with literature may have to help foster empathy. EDUCATION
Ohio State University - MFA Poetry (in progress, class of 2025) Wayne State University - MA Creative Writing ('22) Wayne State University - BA English Honors, minor in Music ('20) EXPERIENCE / SKILLS
Poetry & Songwriting + Lesson Planning + Collaborative Writing AWARDS / RECOGNITION
Helen Earnhart Harley Creative Writing Fellowship Award in Poetry - Honorable Mention, judged by Alessandra Lynch, 2024 Tompkins Poetry Award - 2nd place, judged by Maureen Owen, 2022 (a WSU writing award) The Daniel Keyes Family Graduate Scholarship in Creative Writing (2020-21 Academic Year) |
I was taken by the tender, thoughtful communion with place, the compelling narratives by our Detroit River Tour Guide. Each poem feels like a Detroit tenement: sturdy structures with compelling, emotional inner lives."
-Alessandra Lynch, on reading my work while judging the Helen Earnhart Harley Creative Writing Fellowship Award in Poetry
I find very intriguing your use of the fairytale in these works. You've kept a strong sense of the fairytale rhythm while interjecting yourself with comments, queries, suggestions, and even as a speaking character. This casts a whole new light on the tales with a new approach to a disclosure of the possibilities of their intent or where the stories might have gone internally. One of the elements that captivated me most in this series is your subtle use of humor that pokes out in a most wonderfully twisted manner."
-Maureen Owen, author of Erosion's Pull and Edges of Water, on reading my work while judging the Tompkins Poetry Award