Creative

I’m writing a music-driven memoir about coming of age as a gothy, redheaded minister’s daughter and finding the freedom to march to my own drum machine.

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Publications, awards and kudos

• “Appraisal” in Proximity Magazine, April 2017.
• “There is no main mixtape” in ENTROPY, April 2016.
  • Blogged with the Spotify playlist at Auditory Memory.
• “Fast Food” published in Okey-Panky, February 2016, and simultaneously at Electric Literature.
  • Afterward, Okey-Panky editor Alice Bolin asked me four questions (lost in transition when Okey-Panky moved to the Medium.com platform, but preserved on my blog)
• “Tooth Fairy” in Blue Earth Review, Issue 15.
• “It Really Ain’t Me, Babe” in the anthology Everything I Need to Know About Love I Learned From Pop Songs.
• “Still in Rotation: The The’s Soul Mining“ at Midlife Mixtape, September 2014.
• Invited reader, The Denver Heat, August 2014.
• Invited reader, The Draft 22.0 (Lighthouse Writers Workshop), May 2014.
• Writing published in Hippocampus Magazine, Wazee Journal, Columbia, and Synergism.
• Finalist, Bakeless Prize in Creative Nonfiction.

Creative writing education and involvement

• Graduate, Lighthouse Writers Workshop Book Project (2013-2015).
• Fellow, Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, 2015.
• Partner in The Writers Block, LLC, a Denver writing space.
• Student and instructor, Lighthouse Writers Workshop (Denver).
• Judge, Colorado Book Awards, 2011.