About
I received my MFA at Washington University in Saint Louis and my Ph.D. in English, with Creative-Writing dissertation, at University of Tennessee where I am a post-doctoral lecturer. I study poetics and the Victorian Novel with an emphasis on place, the environment, and labor. My articles have appeared in Dickens Studies Annual and George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies.
My fiction and poetry explore the rural landscape and labor, subjects I see as underrepresented in contemporary writing. Education
- Ph.D. in English with Creative-Writing Dissertation (Fiction), University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
- MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction), Washington University in Saint Louis.
- B.A. in English with General Honors, Vassar College.
Work Shared in CORE
Articles
Book reviews
Other Publications
Short Fiction
- “Dear Kay.” Witness Magazine, vol. 32, no. 2, Winter 2019.
- “Lettie from the Ocean.” Drunken Boat, issue 22, 2015.
- “They Won’t Take Your Ideas.” Drunken Boat, issue 18, 2013.
- “The Half-Glass Bed.” cream city review, A. David Schwartz Fiction Prize, vol. 36, no. 1, 2012, pp. 177–191.
- “Present Blusters.” Konundrum Engine Literary Review, February 2009.
- “A Hasty Conversion.” Crossing Rivers into Twilight, February 2009.
- “The River Beautiful.” Konundrum Engine Literary Review, Fall 2006.
- “Bad Trip.” Memorious, Spring 2005.
- “The Movie Star.” DIAGRAM, issue 2, no. 5, Fall 2002.
Poetry and Prose Poetry
- “Get In,” “Come On, Landscape!” and “Analogous.” DIAGRAM, issue, 9, no. 3, June 2019.
- “Communications for Health-Care Worker.” Fourteen Hills, vol. 25, 2019, pp. 22-24.
- “Roller-skating in a Redlined Neighborhood.” descant, Fall/Winter 2018.
- “Went to Tennessee.” Permafrost Magazine, issue 40, no. 2, Summer Online 2018.
- “Lyme Disease.” Sonora Review, vol. 71, Fall/Winter 2016, p. 27.
- “Georgia on Forty-Fourth” and “Undertow.” DIAGRAM, issue 16, no. 14, August 2016.
- “Day Off.” Judged by Marilyn Hacker, et al. The Hippocrates Prize: The Winning and Commended Poems. The Hippocrates Press, 2012. p. 78.
- “Key.” DIAGRAM, issue 6, no. 5, Fall 2006.
- “Record” and “Employee of the Months.” Can We Have Our Ball Back? Summer 2004.
- “A Lapse.” 42opus, Summer 2003.
- “Mandatory Audiotape.” Square Lake, Fall 2002, pp. 46-7.
Anthologies
- “Key.” DIAGRAM III. Edited by Ander Monson, Del Sol Press, 2008, p. 243.
- “The Movie Star.” DIAGRAM: An Anthology of Text, Art and Schematic. Edited by Ander Monson, Del Sol Press, 2003, p. 215.
Book Reviews
- Review of Peter Capuano’s Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body. Victoriographies, vol. 7, no. 2, 2017, pp. 180-3.
- Review of Anna Henchman’s The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature, George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, vol. 67, no. 1, 2015, pp. 76–80.
- Review of Hilda Hilst’s With My Dog-Eyes, Rain Taxi, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring 2015, p. 25.
- Review of Juliet Patterson and Rachel Moritz’s Elementary Rituals/Dirge, DIAGRAM, issue 14, no. 1, 2013.
- Review of Kate Bernheimer’s The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold, Rain Taxi, Online Edition, Summer 2012.
- Review of Amy King’s Kiss Me with the Mouth of Your Country, Tarpaulin Sky, Spring 2008.
- Review of Mark Nowak’s ¡Workers of the Word, Unite and Fight!, Tarpaulin Sky, Fall 2006.
Memberships
- Association of Writers and Writing Programs
- Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
- Modern Language Association
- National Book Critics Circle
- North American Victorian Studies Association
