Education
The Johns Hopkins University, Master of Arts in Writing—Fiction (2011). Outstanding Graduate Award. JHU Fellow, Conference on Craft in Florence, Italy.
Pennsylvania State University, Bachelor of Humanities, (1997).
Editing and Teaching Experience
Adjunct Faculty. The Johns Hopkins University. Multimedia Storytelling and Publication. Fall 2011-Present.
Editor in Chief. The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review: A Literary and Arts Journal of The Johns Hopkins University. Winter 2011-Present
Writing/Teaching Fellowship. The Johns Hopkins University. Conference on Craft in Florence, Italy. Summer 2011.
Editor in Chief/Fiction Editor. MMR. February 2010-Present.
Creative Writing Lecturer. Workshop Instructor and Panel Participant. Conversations and Connections Writing Conference. Sponsored by The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Review, Potomac Review and Barrelhouse. April 2011.
Guest Presenter/Staff. Hood College. Young Writers’ Conference. Summer 2010.
Guest Editor. Smokelong Quarterly. November 2010.
Graduate Student Instructor. The Johns Hopkins University. “Writing Prosetry” Workshop. October 2010.
Guest Editor/Judge, Bartleby Snopes Dialogue Only Contest. October 2010.
Assistant Editor. Weird Tales (2009-2010); Editorial Assistant. 2008-2009.
English and Literature Teacher. Frederick County Public Schools 2003-2006, English 9-12, Honors, and AP Literature; Cumberland Valley High School 1999-2003, Gifted and Talented, English 9-12; Capital Area Intermediate Unit Alternative Education Teacher 1998-1999.
Book
The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals: A Collection of Stories. Patasola Press, NY. June 2011. Publisher nominated for 2012 Pen Hemingway Award and Pushcart Award.
Selected Short Fiction
“Good Girl.” StoryQuarterly No. 45, 2012.
“An Open Letter to a Suicidal Friend, a Bulimic Friend, a Long Lost Aunt, and Stephanie, My New LinkedIn Connection,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, 2012.
“Untitled.” En(Un)Gender Me. PS Books, 2012.
“Skin.” Grace and Gravity. Paycock Press, 2012.
“Pop Modern Genesis.” Gargoyle Magazine, 2011.
“Stage Play in Five Acts of Her: Matinee.” (Reprint). Big Muddy, Spring 2011.
“The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals, Relatives and Gin.” BLIP Magazine (formerly Mississippi Review), January 2011.
“[Jeezus] Changed My Oil Today.” Opium Magazine, January 2011.
“Emperatriz de la Orilla del Río.” PANK Magazine, December 2010.
“Solipsy Street.” Metazen, November 2010.
“All You Bad Sinners,” Decomp Magazine, November 2010.
“Postfeminist Zombie Assassins Wear Wonder Woman Underoos,” The Medulla Review.
“Featherbedding.” Kill Author, Issue Eight: The Vladimir Nabokov Issue, August 2010.
“Stage Play in Five Acts of Her: Matinee.” BLIP Magazine (formerly Mississippi Review), July 2010.
“Chinchillas in the Air.” Annalemma, July 2010.
“Collecting Calliope.” Weave Magazine, May 2010.
“Buttercrisp.” Pear Noir, Issue Four. May 2010.
“Paddlehead.” Caper Literary Journal, May 2010.
“Monk Man and Moonshine.” Menda City Review, April 2010.
“Fly Fishing in Neoprene Legs.” Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, April 2010.
“Everything’s Better with Pesto.” Staccato¸ April 2010.
“Stiletto Dance.” Foundling Review, April 2010.
“Fifty Years in Halves.” Word Riot, March 2010.
“Intolerable Impositions.” Bartleby Snopes, February 2010.
“Street Red.” Writer’s Bloc (Rutger’s Camden), Issue Ten. February 2010.
“I Keep a Vine Woven Basket by the Front Door.” A capella Zoo, Issue Four. Fall 2009.
“Sublimity in Turquoise Blue.” Farrago’s Wainscot, October 2009.
“The Peregrine and the Mermaid.” SFW, October 2008.
“A History of Bloody Point, St. Christopher’s Island (1626).” Whidbey Writers’, July 2008.
Selected Poetry and Multimedia Works
“The Art of Truncation.” Ampersand Review (Multimedia), 2011.
“Coffined.” Ampersand Review (Multimedia), 2011.
“Capture Escape.” Willows Wept Review (Poetry), Fall 2010.
“Pomegranate Kiss.” The Shine Journal (Poetry), Fall 2009.
Selected Nonfiction
Essay: “Adrien Brody, Adrien Brody, and Adrien Brody’s Nose,” The Nervous Breakdown, 2012.
Review: “What May Have Been by Gary Percesepe and Susan Tepper.” Puerto del Sol, Spring 2011.
Review: “Rae Bryant on Elaine Chiew.” Kill Author, August 2010.
Essay: “Taboos and Tropes: Rhetoric and Writing about Rape.” FM, April 2009.
Review: “Going Green.” Literary Traveler, Summer Issue 2009.
Review: “Psychological Methods to Sell Should Be Destroyed.” The Fix, June 2008.
Honors, Awards and Fellowships
2012 Pen Emerging Writers Award, Editorial Committee nominated.
2012 Pushcart Awards, Selected stories from The Indefinate State of Imaginary Morals, Publisher nominated.
2012 Pen Hemingway Award, The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals, Publisher nominated.
The Johns Hopkins University, Writing and Teaching Fellowship, Conference on Craft in Florence, Italy. Summer 2011.
The Johns Hopkins University, 2011 Outstanding Graduate Award.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Fellow in Residence, Winter 2011.
StorySouth’s Million Writers Award Editor Nominated, 2010.
Dzanc Best of the Web Editor Nominated, 2010.
Sundress Best of the Net Editor Nominated, 2010.
Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition Honorable Mention, 2010.
Bartleby Snopes Short Story Contest Second Place, February 2010.
StorySouth’s Million Writers Award Editor Nominated, 2009.
Whidbey Writers’ Student Choice Contest First Place, July 2008.
Workshops
Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Fiction Workshop with Alice McDermott. (Summer 2011).
The Johns Hopkins Conference on Craft in Florence, Italy. Fellowship and Fiction Workshop with Jill McCorkle. (Summer 2011).
Barrelhouse/Dzanc Books Workshop (Spring 2010).
The Johns Hopkins University—Independent Study Advanced Experimental Workshop—Richard Peabody (Fall 2010), Fiction Workshop—Nancy Lemann (Fall 2010), Fiction Workshop—Tim Wendel (Summer 2010), Independent Study Experimental Fiction Workshop—Richard Peabody (Spring 2010), Experimental Fiction Workshop—Richard Peabody (2009), Fiction Workshop—Mark Farrington (Fall 2009), Conference on Craft—Fiction Workshop with Alice McDermott and Extended Workshop with David Everett (Summer 2009).
Algonkian Writers Conference (Spring 2008).
Professional Affiliations
Associated Writing Programs (AWP), Johns Hopkins University, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Poets and Writers (P&W), Maryland Writers Association (MWA), American Historical Association (AHA), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Neue Galerie: Museum for German and Austrian Art (NY).