My short stories have been published in Glimmer Train, The Missouri Review, Chicago Review, Quarterly West, Georgetown Review, and elsewhere. My memoir and creative nonfiction has been published in The Millions, Willow Springs, The Pinch, Notre Dame Magazine, and elsewhere. I've also written craft and writing-life essays that have appeared in Glimmer Train’s Bulletin and Talking Writing. My fiction and nonfiction have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and my memoir, “Touch,” was selected for inclusion in the 2014 Pushcart Prize Anthology and reprinted in the special 2018 Pushcart anthology, Love Stories for Turbulent Times. My essay, "Border Crossing" was selected as a "Notable Essay" in the 2016 Best American Essays.
I’ve won Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers, The Bronx Writers’ Center “Chapter One” Contest, and my fiction and nonfiction have been anthologized. I’ve been a guest artist at The University of Texas, judged writing competitions and grant applications, and been awarded an artist's residency at the Jentel Artist Residency Program, as well as scholarships to the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony and the Cuttyhunk Island Residency. My plays have been produced in New York City and across the country.
I graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a BA in Theater and received my MFA in Creative Writing from The New School in New York City. I’ve studied creative nonfiction as a scholar at the Norman Mailer Writer’s Colony and creative coaching with Dr. Eric Maisel. My work has been used as a teaching text at major universities, as well as in the public high schools, and cited in the book, Beyond the Writers’ Workshop: New Ways to Write Creative Nonfiction, by Carol Bly.
My debut novel, Remember This, will be published by The University of Wisconsin Press in Fall 2022.