Career Experience

• Digital Media Specialist, Solid Ground, Oct. 2018 – October 2022
• Literature Beat Writer, City Arts Magazine, 2018
• Contributing Writer, Ethnic Seattle, 2018
• Homeowner Communications and Engagement Specialist, AmeriCorps – Habitat for Humanity, 2017-2018
• Communications Consultant & Poetry Tutor, Your Words STL, 2016
• Digital Communications Intern, AIA Seattle, 2016
• Marketing + Events Intern, Seattle City Club, 2015 – 2016
• Graduate Research Assistant, University of Missouri System, 2014 – 2015
• Writing Intern, KWQC TV6 Broadcast Station, 2014

Residencies and Programs

• ARTS at King Street Station Studio Residency, Seattle, WA 2021
• Jack Straw Writers’ Program, Seattle WA, 2018

Published Works

• What I Know Now, Really Serious Literature, 2018
• “Hair as Quiet Cymbal” + “Her Story”, Dryland Lit Mag, 2018
• 2018 Jack Straw Writers Anthology, Jack Straw Cultural Center, 2018
• “Pain Poem” + “Dreams”, Puerto Del Sol Journal, 2018
• “Dedications” + “Tuesday (Independence Day)”, Reality Beach Journal, 2018
• “Sabbatical”, Fig Root Press, 2017
• “Famous”, Black Lives Have Always Mattered: an Anthology, by 2Leaf Press, 2017
• “Satisfaction“, Issue No.7, Third Point Press, 2017
• “Meet Our Year in Review Panel”, Seattle City Club Blog, Seattle WA, 2015
• Journalism Interactive Conference, Columbia MO, 2015

Awards

• A Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) Award Recipient for the visual poem collection Cicada My Spirit, Artist Trust, 2018
• The Eddie Mabry Award for the essay God is Not a White Man, Augustana College (Rock Island, IL), 2014

Performances and Presentations

    Readings

• Surreal Storytelling with Strange Women, Litcrawl Seattle, 2019
• Radical Place: The Poetics of Experimental Geography, &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing, University of Washington Bothell, 2019
• Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the #MeToo Movement, Hugo House, 2019
• Boom ! Boom ! Book Launch Teaser (DMMTHL by C.C. Hannett), Really Serious Literature, Everett WA, 2019
• Surreal Storytelling with Strange Women, Northwest Folklife Festival, Seattle WA, 2019
• Bibliophilia Storytelling Festival, Hugo House, Seattle WA, 2019
• An AWP Off-site Reading w/ Reality Beach, Lithic Press & Puplmouth Press, Portland OR, 2019
• Jack Straw & the Bushwick Book Club, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle WA, 2018
• Jack Straw Fellows Reading, Open Books Poem Emporium, Seattle WA, 2018
• Jack Straw Reading, Seattle Public Library, 2018
• Jack Straw Poets Reading, Lit Crawl Seattle, 2018
• Poetry in Translation, At the Inkwell Seattle, 2018
• Poets in the Park, Redmond WA, 2018
• Even Tonight: A June Jordan Tribute, Open Books Poem Emporium, Seattle WA, 2018
• Glossophonics radio show via Hollow Earth Radio, Seattle WA, 2018
• Jack Straw Reading, Northwest Folklife Festival, Seattle WA, 2018
• Jack Straw May Reading Series, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle WA, 2018
• Margin Shift, Common Area Maintenance, Seattle WA, 2018
• False Starts: Works in Progress, Seattle WA, 2018
• The Palomino Lounge, St. Louis MO, 2018
• Speak to Me!: A Reading Series, Seattle WA, 2017
• Sh!t Gold, Seattle WA, 2017
• Urb Arts STL, St. Louis MO, 2016
• Legacy Books & Cafe, St. Louis MO, 2016

    Theater & Recorded Performances

• Resonance: a short film meditation, streamed at Nights at the Neptune and the NW Film Forum’s Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Seattle WA, 2020
• Mind Over Matter, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, Seattle WA, 2019
• Queer, Mama. Crossroads, Seattle WA, 2018 (Gay City) & 2019 (Annex Theater)
• Under the Gun, Rock Island IL, 2014
• Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, Rock Island IL, 2013
• Real Girls, Rock Island IL 2011

    Presentations

• Habitat for Humanity Seattle – King County, Seattle King County, 2017
• Mizzou Women’s Leadership Conference, Columbia MO, 2015
• Celebration of Learning, Rock Island IL, 2014

Videography

• KWQC – TV6 Broadcast Station, Davenport IA, 2014

Education

• University of Missouri – Columbia, MA, 2014-2015 (Journalism)
• Augustana College, BA, 2011 – 2014 (Literature)