EDUCATION:
Long Island University Brooklyn, NY
M.F.A. in Creative Writing August 2010-May 2012
Thesis: “Elephants are Contagious (full manuscript of poetry,
later published by BlazeVOX books as “to go without blinking”)
Naropa University Boulder, CO
B.A. Writing and Poetics August 2007-May 2008
Thesis: “Evidence of Monsterism within Experimental Fiction and the Personal Narrative”
Smith College Northampton, MA
Summer Writing Program June 2004-July 2004
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Adjunct Instructor/Full-Time Lecturer Bronx, NY
Bronx Community College August 2013-Present
- English 10: Composition and Rhetoric I
Thematic: Race, Gender, and Identity
- Intro to Women’s Literature ENG 157
- Intro to Creative Writing ENG 121
- English 14: Writing Composition and Prose Fiction
Thematic: Autoethnography in Literature
Creative Writing Teacher/Faculty Member New York City, NY
Poetry Teachers NYC October 2012-November 2015
SHSAT Teacher New York City, NY
Mini Ivy July 2014-August 2015
- Reading/Writing Curriculum building for 5th-7th graders
CUNY Start Reading and Writing Teacher Queens, NY
LaGuardia Community College January-August 2013
- CATW reading/writing test prep
Writing Consultant Brooklyn, NY
NYU Poly August 2012-December 2013
- Expository writing one-on-one
Writing Instructor Bronx, NY
Boricua College September 2012-December 2013
- American Literature: Multi-Cultural Perspectives
- English Composition I
Thematic: Home
Developmental Writing Teacher Longmont, CO
Longmont Community College January 2009-May 2010
- ENG 030: Basic Writing Skills
- REA 030: Basic Reading Skills
- REA 060: Basic Reading Skills/Foundations of Reading
CONFERENCES:
“Queerying the Classroom: Curriculum of Creating Space for Queer and New York City, NY
Gender Non-Conforming Students” April 2017
CUNY The Professoriat at the Global University at Hunter College
“The Redefinition of Meaning: Going Beyond Traditional Expository Writing Through Long Island City, NY
Autoethnography, Creative-Non-Fiction and Experimentation” April 2015
CUNY Best Practices Conference at LaGuardia Community College
“Reimagining the Body of Poetics and How Form Can Play Boulder, CO
an Important Role in Revealing Meaning” October 2014
The DisEmbodied Poetics Conference at Naropa University
GUEST SPEAKING:
Guest Performer Queens, NY
Project [Her] Voice at York College May 2018
Guest Performer/Workshop Leader Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn High School for Leadership and Community Service Poetry Week April 2015
Guest Presenter: Politics and Poetry Workshop New York, NY
CUNY Grad Center October 2014
- Performed a selection of original poetry; fielded questions during a Q&A.
Guest Presenter: Representing Poetry Teachers NYC Queens, NY
ETERNIDAY Festival at Queens Museum March 2014
- Presented materials focused on upcoming workshops and readings.
- Fielded potential customer questions about PTNYC mission and upcoming programing.
- Built professional relationships with other entrepreneurs.
Guest Speaker/Workshop Leader with Poetry Teachers NYC Queens, NY
Saint John’s University Fall 2013
- Facilitated writing workshop focused on fostering alternative approaches to creativity.
- Mediated two separate writing/performance prompts.
- Provided feedback on writing, and fielded questions about the creative writing process.
Guest Speaker/Lecturer with Poetry Teachers NYC: Poetry U New York, NY
Part of Bowery Arts & Sciences at Bowery Poetry Club 2013
- Co-Lecture on creative writing/performance process.
- Mediated multiple writing prompts.
- Provided feedback on writing, and fielded questions about the creative process.
Guest Speaker/Workshop Leader Long Island, NY
Malloy College 2011
Guest Speaker/Workshop Leader Long Island, NY
Stoneybrook University 2010
Guest Speaker/Performer Denver, CO
Metro State University Banned Books Week 2008
WORKSHOPS:
La Casa Experimental Brooklyn, NY
Ridgewood Bushwick Youth Center 2017
- Presented various writing prompts and introduced forms such as erasures and cut-ups
Let’s Talk Form: Online Poetry Workshop Astoria, NY
Online via Google Hangout May 2015
- Wrote assignments and curriculum for participants in the workshop.
- Lead discussions on poetics as seen in new work by Maggie Nelson,
Claudia Rankine, and Dodie Bellmay. - Provided feedback on participants’ poetry produced from assignments.
- Lead and participated in a live Google Doc creative writing exercise.
Poetry Teachers NYC’s Online Poet Q&A Astoria, NY
Online via Google Hangout March-May 2015
- Lead a monthly discussion on the creative process, publishing tips,
and performance technique. - Provided feedback on participants’ creative writing.
- Fielded questions from an online audience.
Poetry Teachers NYC Poetry & Performance Workshop New York, NY
Shetler Studios May 2014
- Designed & mediated three week writing/performance curriculum:
writing prompts, brief lectures on creative process, conducted writing workshop. - Featured student readers at The Pomegranate Gallery Artist Event.
Page Meets Stage Workshop New York, NY
Part of Bowery Arts & Sciences @ Bowery Poetry Club February 2014
- Designed & mediated three week writing/performance curriculum:
writing prompts, brief lectures on creative process, conducted writing workshop. - Featured student readers at the Bowery Poetry Club’s Open Mic.
Poets Perform Workshop New York, NY
Part of Bowery Arts & Sciences @ Bowery Poetry Club Oct. & Dec. 2013
- Designed & mediated three week writing/performance curriculum:
writing prompts, brief lectures on creative process, conducted writing workshop. - Featured student readers at the Bowery Poetry Club’s Open Mic.
Workshop Leader/Instructor Denver, CO
Colorado Free University 2009
- Weekly workshops on writing erotica
SERVICE:
Writing and Reading Tutor Brooklyn, NY
Footsteps August 2017-Present
Writing Mentor New York, NY
Girls Write Now August 2017-Present
Creative Writing Workshop Facilitator Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Public Library (Central branch) May 2016-Present
Curator and Host New York City, NY
Queer Art Organics (Literary Series featuring LGBTQ writers and performers) July 2016-June 2018
FULL-LENGTH BOOKS:
Everything Grows (YA novel) forthcoming Spring 2019
Three Rooms Press
meant to wake up feeling (poetry) 2014
great weather for MEDIA
to go without blinking (poetry) 2012
BlazeVOX books
CHAPBOOKS OF POETRY:
carpus 2016
Essay Press
rooted 2014
Dancing Girl Press
Self-Diagnosed Lactose Intolerance 2008
Baobob Tree Press
Tastes Like Cheesecake 2005
Butcher Shop Press
WRITING RESIDENCIES:
Big Words, Etc. Writer in Residence Brooklyn, NY
April 2016-Present
Art Farm Marquette, NE
June 2015
PUBLISHED ORIGINAL POETRY (ANTHOLOGIES:
- My Body, My Words 2018
- Brevitas 14 2017
- Maintenant 11 2017
- Me and My Boi: Queer Erotic Stories (Cleis Press) 2016
- Theories of HER 2016
- Palabras Luminosos (Vogue Scholars Press) 2016
- Cream City Review: Genre Queer 2015
- Bone Bouquet 2015
- Shadow of the Geode (Vogue Scholars Press) 2015
- Nerve Lantern: Axon of Performance Literature Issue 9 2015
- I Let Go of the Stars in my Hand (great weather for MEDIA) 2014
- A Jar of Queer Feelings 2014
- Trans Bodies, Trans Selves (Oxford University Press) 2014
- ADRIENNE: A Poetry Journal of Queer Women (Sibling Rivalry Press) 2014
- Nin Journal 2014
- Nerve Lantern: Axon of Performance Literature Issue 7 2014
- Estrellas En El Fuego (Vogue Scholars Press) 2014
- small po[r]tions 2014
- The Understanding Between Foxes and Light (great weather for MEDIA) 2013
- Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books) 2013
- Come Here! No. 7 (Rainbow Book Fair LGTBQ Writers) 2013
- Poetry is Dead Magazine Issue 1 Volume 4 2013
- Bone Bouquet 2013
- Mad Rush Issue 1 2012
- theNewerYork 2012
- Pros(e) (Red Umbrella Project) 2012
- Off the Rocks Volume 16: Anthology of LGBT Writing 2012
- It’s Animal But Merciful (great weather for MEDIA) 2012
- CAKETRAIN Issue 09 2011
- by the OVERPASS 2011
- you say.say. (uphook press) 2011
- Nice Girls, Naughty Sex (Seal Press) 2011
- Best Mammouth Book of Erotica 11 (Running Press) 2011
- The Harder She Comes: Butch/Femme Erotica (Cleis Press) 2010
- Best Lesbian Love Stories (Alyson Books) 2009
- Oysters & Chocolate Erotic Stories of Every Flavor 2009
- Recipes for the Apocalypse: A Toast to a New Frontier (Baobob Tree Press) 2008
- Focus on the Fabulous: Anthology of Colorado GLBT Voices 2007
FEATURED PERFORMANCES:
- New Years Day Poetry Marathon at Nuyorican Poet’s Café, NYC 2014-Present
- Muffins Variety Show at Stonewall Inn, NYC 2018
- Hydrogen Junkbox Presents: This is What a Feminist Looks Like at Dixon Place, NYC 2018
- Rainbow Book Fair NYC 2013-2017
- BOOG Poets Theatre 2016, 2017
- Resister Project at Kraine Theatre, NYC 2017
- Hydrogen Junkbox Presents: On an Island of Love Poems at Dixon Place, NYC 2017
- Hot! Festival at Dixon Place, NYC 2011, 2013, 2016
- Staten Island Arts LUMEN Performing Arts Festival in Staten Island 2016
- Governor’s Island Poetry Festival at Governor’s Island, NYC 2012-2016
- WORD Cabaret at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition 2016
- The Loser’s Project at Cornelia Street Café 2016
- The Inaugural Queens NYC Lit Festival at LIC Bar, LIC 2015
- 5th Annual NYC Poetry Festival at Governor’s Island, NYC 2015
- Queer COM LGBTQ Comedy Festival at Peoples Improv Theatre, NYC 2015
- Hold Your Horses! A Tribute to Pattie Smith at Cornelia Street Café, NYC 2015
- Poetry Teachers NYC Presents Read Balloons Symposium at Bowery Poetry Club NYC 2015
- Bridgewater International Poetry Festival at Bridgewater College, Virginia 2015
- Punch.Poem. at Magnet Theatre, NYC 2014, 2015
- 3Po3try NYC Presents Hot House atOrganic Modernism, Brooklyn 2014
- DUMBO Arts Festival Brooklyn Bridge Park, NY 2013, 2014
- Poetry Teachers NYC Presents Poetics Explosion @ Cornelia Street Café, NYC 2014
- 15th Annual Lit Mag Fair at Housing Works Bookshop, NYC 2014
- Poetry Teachers NYC Graduation Reading at The Pomegranate Gallery, NYC 2014
- 3Po3try NYC Presents Raining Words: A Spring Poetry Extravaganza @ The Pomegranate Gallery, NYC 2014
- St George Festival in Staten Island 2014
- Hypergender Burlesque Cabaret at Wow Café Theatre, NYC 2013, 2014
- Poetry Teachers NYC: Remix Poetix at Nuyorican Poets Café, NYC 2013
- The Inspired Word Presents: Ugly Sweaters & Dirty Stockings at Tammany Hall, NYC 2013
- Underpass Poets Reading at DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn (Sept. 28th-29th) 2013
- Between the Sheets Erotic Salon at An Beal Bocht Café, Riverdale, NYC 2013
- Poet Sculpture Performance at Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens 2013
- Three Rooms Press Presents: That’s Independent! At Cornelia Street Café, NYC 2013
- HOWL Festival at Tompkins Square Park, NYC 2013
- Poetry Teachers NYC Benefit w/ Anne Waldman at Comedy Bar, NYC 2013
- Our Stories, Our Lives with Persist Health Project at The Space at Thompkins, NYC 2013
- Bay Ridge Poet’s Society at Owl Bar, Brooklyn 2013
- Poets Banned Books Reading at Housing Works Bookstore, NYC 2013
- Bernadette Mayer Benefit Reading at Milk & Roses, Brooklyn 2013
- Don’t Cage Me In: Poetry & Sound w/ Bob Holman (Honoring John Cage) @ The White Box, NYC 2013
- Jump Rope Salon: Tribute to Taylor Meade at Bowery Poetry Club, NYC 2013
- Poetry Teachers NYC Monthly Readings Series at Milk & Roses, Brooklyn 2012-2013
- Fresh Fruit Festival at The Wild Project, NYC 2012
- Sex Worker Cabaret at Public Assembly, Brooklyn 2012
- An Experiment of [DE]contamination at Long Island University 2011
AWARDS:
- Semi-Finalist Augury Books Poetry Contest 2015
- Semi-Finalist Grazing Grain Press chapbook contest 2015
- Finalist Matrix Lit Pop Awards 2013, 2014, 2015
- Finalist Split this Rock Poetry Contest 2013
- Finalist Button Poetry’s Exploding Pinecone Press Chapbook Contest 2013
RADIO:
- Beautiful Poetry with Dope Poets 2011
- The Poetry Show with Dona Stein KRFC 88.9 Fort Collins, CO Feb. 2008
- Poetry Hour with Ted Vacca KVCU 1190 Boulder, CO 2008
- Joey Reynolds Radio Show WOR 710 NYC July 2007
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