Creative Experience
Recent News:
Designed and facilitated a generative writing session at the Anaphora Arts Writing Residency, featuring original craft-driven prompts — Feb. 2026
Invited Craft Talk Lecturer at Portland Community College — Feb. 2026
Awarded Writing Residency from the Carolyn Moore Writing Residency — Feb. 2006
Craft Talk Lecturer at CALYX Press —Oct. 2025
Craft Talk Lecturer at The Writer’s Center — Aug. 2025
Invited Craft Talk Lecturer at Anaphora Arts Writing Residency Aug. 2025
Generative Writing Workshop Facilitator —Anaphora Arts Writing Residency Aug. 2025
Invited Craft Talk Lecturer at ThunderDome Conference Boulder CO, Aug. 2025
Generative Writing Workshop Facilitator — ThunderDome Conference Boulder CO, Aug. 2025
Awarded Residency from Rockvale Writers’ Colony — May 2025
Generative Workshop Hour at Anaphora Arts Residency Feb. 2025
Pacific University Alumni Council — Alumni events at Residency 2025
Assistant Fiction Editor for Northwest Review 2024
Anaphora Arts Inaugural Emerging Critics Program Fellow Oct. 2023
Reading at Mahtem Shiferraw’s L.A. Book Launch for Nomenclatures of Invisibility at Beyond Baroque July 2023
Recent MFA Graduate from Pacific University, Forrest Grove, June 2023
Anaphora Reading at AWP 2023
Flash Fiction reader for Northwest Review 2023
Prior Residency Experiences:
February 2026 — Carolyn Moore Writing Residency
January 2021 — Pacific University MFA in Creative Writing Program
January 2020 — Pacific University Residency at Seaside, OR
March 2019 — Cambridge Writer’s Workshop, New Orleans, LA
June 2018 — Anaphora for the Arts Writing Residency Founding Fellow
Awards:
Master of Fine Arts Merit Scholarship from Pacific University 2021
Publications:
“To Do” — a flash fiction piece on @FeastandFable, a digital publishing platform (2020)
Merlin the Drunk Merman — self-published chapbook in collaboration with Michael C. Hsiung as the illustrator. Sold at Skylight Books and other notable bookstores in Los Angles. (2015)
DumbLove —a self-published chapbook sold at Skylight Books and other notable bookstores in Los Angles. (2010)
Leadership in Literary Community:
PACT Desk Set — Co-Manager of a Substack that focuses in craft-forward, punk ethos.
Writing in Color Series— Co-host a monthly student + alum zoom gathering specifically for BIPOC students attending the Pacific MFA program. Sessions are centered around supporting BIPOC writers in the program to navigate their semesters smoothly.
Fiction Footnotes Series— Co-host a monthly student + alum Zoom gathering every first Tuesday. Sessions begin with an ask – something that will help a writer achieve a goal.
Evening “Study Hall” — Lead an accountability writing group from all genres that meet via Zoom twice weekly to discuss projects, provide support, and offer much-needed writing time.
