BA, Whitworth College
MFA, Eastern Washington University
PHD, Ohio University
Recent Scholarship:
A Bead of Amber on Her Tongue. Winner of the Fabulist Fiction Award. Berkeley, CA: Omnidawn Press, 2019.
“The Way to the Tower.” F(r)iction. Spring (2019).
“Our Hidden Prime Directive: How Classism Teaches People to Leave Spaceships and Wizards out of the Classroom.” Imaginative Teaching through Creative Writing: A Guide for Secondary Classrooms. Eds Chris Drew and Amy Ash. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Classes Taught:
Intermediate and Advanced Fiction Workshop; Environmental Literature; Topics in Fiction: Fairy Tales and Mythology in Literature and Film; Topics in Writing: "Fantasy and Science Fiction Writing," "Writing the Fairy Tale," "Writing Post-Apocalyptic Fiction"; Magazine Publishing Practicum; Introduction to Creative Writing.