WORK EXPERIENCE

Lecturer | University of Houston | August 2022 – Now

Managing Editor | Arkansas International | August 2020 – May 2022

Director | Arkansas Writers in the Schools | August 2020 – August 2021 

Multimedia Specialist | Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Arkansas | January 2019 – August 2020                                                       

Instructor of Record | University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas | August 2018 – August 2020 

AWARDS, HONORS, AND AFFILIATIONS

  • 2021 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize, The Whiting Foundation

  • 2021 Harrison/Whitehead Founders’ Fellowship, University of Arkansas

  • 2021 Lily Peter Fellowship in Fiction, University of Arkansas

  • 2021 Summer Research Scholarship, University of Arkansas

  • 2020 Roper Scholarship, University of Arkansas

  • 2019 Lily Peter Fellowship in Fiction, University of Arkansas

  • 2019 James T. Whitehead Award for Fiction, University of Arkansas

  • 2014 Psychology STEM Fund, University of Cincinnati