Biography
Since 2008, I have taught first-year writing, creative writing, and literature courses as an adjunct instructor in the English and Creative Writing Department.聽 In addition to publishing creative work in national journals such as聽American Letters and Commentary,听Volt, and聽Omniverse, I have published a聽 chapbook聽(Repatterning, Punch Press) and a full-length poetry collection聽(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.聽 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聽鈥淢aking Modernism: Literature and Culture in Twentieth-Century Chicago, 1893-1955" (2017).聽 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.聽 聽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 Creative Writing Literature
Creative 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 Creative Writing pedagogy
Degrees
B.A., Creative Writing Beloit College 1998
M.F.A., Creative Writing Saint Mary's College of California 2003
M.A., English State University of New York at Buffalo 2008