EDUCATION                         

University of South Florida (MFA) Class of 2023

·       Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing: Poetry

·       4.0 GPA

Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English (Expected MA) 2018-2024

·       Master of Arts in English Literature

·       4.0 GPA

State University of New York at Fredonia (BA) Class of 2016

·       Bachelors in Adolescent English Education

·       Minor in Creative Writing

·       Dean’s List

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Adjunct Instructor of Writing, Sarasota FL

The Ringling College of Art and Design, August 2023-Present

• Poetry Workshop

• Professional Writing

• Writing Studio

New College of Florida, January 2024-Present

• Poetry Comics 101

• Poetry Workshop

Graduate Teaching Instructor, Tampa, FL

University of South Florida Department of English, August 2020-May 2023

·       English Composition I

·       English Composition II

·       Form and Technique of Poetry

·       Intro to Creative Writing

·       Poetry I

·       Introduction to Popular Music (Humanities Department)

Classroom Teacher, Grade 7, New York, NY    

Robert F. Wagner J.H.S. M.S. 167, September 2017- June 2020

·       English Language Arts

P.S./M.S. 279 Captain Manuel Rivera, Jr, September 2016- June 2017 

·       English Language Arts

CURRENT PROJECTS

• DAUGHTERS OF LILITH

  • Full-length collection of poetry which centers queerness, grief, girlhood, and ancestry through the lens of the feminine grotesque and Jewish mythology

SERVICE  

Institutional Service

• Panelist, USF English Department Graduate Workshops: The “Hidden” Curriculum, Tampa, FL, September 2022                        

• Student Mentor, USF’s English Department Mentorship Program, Tampa, FL 2020-2022

• Equity Workshop Team Leader, Wagner Middle School, New York, NY 2017-2020

Service to the Community

• Interviewer, Short Story Today Podcast, “Culture in Fiction #1: A Conversation with Jewish Writers,” April 2023

• Local Art and Book Vendor, Tampa Zine Fest, Tampa, FL, March 2023

• Open Mic Host, Blue Parlor Reading Series, Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English, VT, 2019                                             

• Literary Event Coordinator, 21 East Bookstore, Dunkirk, NY, 2014-2015                                                      

EDITORIAL AND DIGITAL MEDIA EXPERIENCE

• Editorial Assistant, Short Story Today Podcast, 2022-present                                                                                     

• Poetry, Comics and Art Editor, Saw Palm Literary Journal, Tampa, FL, 2022                                                       

• Editorial Intern, Leapfrog Press, Fredonia, NY, 2015                                                                        

READINGS

Curtain Call, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, May 2023

Saying it Out Loud: A Poetry Reading, USF Contemporary Art Museum, April 2023

Spoonbill Reading Series, Corner Club, Tampa, FL, November 2022

Summer of Rage, Winemak’Her, Brooklyn, NY August 2022

Blue Parlor Open Mic, Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English, June 2022

HONORS AND AWARDS

Best New Poets nominee, April 2023

Winner of the Flume Press 2022 Chapbook Competition

Finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Spring 2021 Chapbook competition.

John and Eleanor A. Courts Teaching Award, State University of New York at Fredonia, 2016

First Place, Mary Louise White Creative Writing Award, State University of New York at Fredonia, 2015