Biography
Since 2008, I have taught first-year writing, creative writing, and literature courses as an adjunct instructor in the English and °µÍø51 Writing Department. In addition to publishing creative work in national journals such as American Letters and Commentary,ÌýVolt, and Omniverse, I have published a chapbook (Repatterning, Punch Press) and a full-length poetry collection (Three American Letters, Little Red Leaves), and am currently working on a creative nonfiction manuscript about growing up with my gay father in Boystown, Chicago. As a literature instructor, I have sought out professional development opportunities, the most recent of which is participating in a selective NEH Summer Institute on “Making Modernism: Literature and Culture in Twentieth-Century Chicago, 1893-1955" (2017). I received a B.A. in English from Beloit College, Wisconsin, an M.F.A. in Poetry from St. Mary's College of California, and an M.A. in English from State University of New York at Buffalo.  I also completed Ph.D. coursework in the Poetics program at Buffalo, where I studied nineteenth- and twentieth-century American poetry.
Instructional Areas
First-year Writing °µÍø51 Writing Literature
°µÍø51 Practice and Research Interests
Twentieth-century American poetry and poetics Nineteenth-century American literature Contemporary American Poetry Chicago literature Native American Studies First-year Writing / Composition pedagogy °µÍø51 Writing pedagogy
Degrees
B.A., °µÍø51 Writing Beloit College 1998
M.F.A., °µÍø51 Writing Saint Mary's College of California 2003
M.A., English State University of New York at Buffalo 2008