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Chapbooks & Collections
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The Synonym Tables. The Poetry Question. 2021. Contains several Pushcart Prize nominated works for creative nonfiction.
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20,, erasure poems from Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Alternating Current Press. 2020.
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Footnote, A Literary Journal of History, Volume 2. Three poems from 20,, 2019. Contributor.
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Poetry x Collage, Volume 1. Kolaj Institute. 2021. Contributor.
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Zines
A Kaleidoscope of Forms, edited by Michał Kamil Piotrowski. The Poetry School. 2024. Contributor.
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Guardians of the Jungle Zine, edited by Maja Sereda. 2023. Contributor.
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Published Poems
“the sieve,” in SWWIM, 2022
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Fevers of the Mind, reprints of two poems. 2021
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“Shopping for my Mother,” What Rough Beast | COVID EDITION. Indolent Books. 2020
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“you and me and all the gods,” Tule Review, 2020
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“The Synonym Tables,” Storm Cellar, Volume 8, No. 3. 2020. Pushcart Prize nominated.
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“What Sexuality Can Be (for David Bowie),” Oyez Review, 2018
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“The City of X,” The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society, September 2015
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“February Poem #2: The Calving,” Ghost Ocean, Volume 14
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Saturday on Lincoln Ave., Anthology of Chicago, 2015
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“The Gates of Ismat Towers,” Found Poetry Frontiers. 2015
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Art Exhibitions
Woman Made Gallery, "Roe 2.0" juried exhibit, 2023
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Collage in Motion, KolajFest, 2023
Non-fiction Writing (Selected)
“True art: CUTOUT FESTIVAL breaks attendance records in Ukraine,” interview with the curators of CUTOUT FESTIVAL, forthcoming in Kolaj Magazine.
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Migration and Me: Connecting People through Stories of Nature and Place, Faith in Place. 2018
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“Socially Engaged Art, Critics and Discontents: An Interview with Claire Bishop,” published in Artistic Bedfellows: Histories, Theories, and Conversations in Collaborative Art Practices edited by Holly Crawford and published by University Press of America, 2008
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Awards
Pushcart Prize Nominated by Storm Cellar for “The Synonym Tables,” creative nonfiction. 2020
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Named “Writer to Watch in 2019 & Beyond” by the Chicago Guild Literary Complex. 2019
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Charter Oak Award Semifinalist for Best Historical Writing for erasure poems of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. 2016
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Workshops & Facilitation
Sunday Collage Collective, facilitator for monthly collage meetup, 2022 - present
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“Poetry x Collage Workshop,” online workshop, Kolaj Institute, 2024
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“Ode to Fury,” found poetry workshop, Chicago Public Schools (Walter Payton College Prep), 2017-2018
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“Ode to Fury,” found poetry workshop, Chicago Public Library, 2015
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BS
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University of Chicago, MLA​