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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 & honors
- Writing residency, Vermont Studio Center, February 2019
- Three poems published in Indolent Books’ What Rough Beast series: “Sessions (a playlist),” November 9, 2018; “Late Autumn, Family,” November 16, 2018; “Valentine’s Day,” November 23, 2018.
- Invited reader, Unchaste Readers Front Range, Denver, May 2017
- Shortlist, Disquiet International Prize (nonfiction), April 2017
- “Appraisal” in Proximity Magazine, April 2017.
- Invited reader, Kudos Live (recently published writers), Lit Fest, Lighthouse Writers, Denver, June 2016
- “There is no main mixtape” in ENTROPY, April 2016.
- “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.
- Other writing published in Hippocampus Magazine, Wazee Journal, Columbia, and Synergism.
- Finalist, Bakeless Prize in Creative Nonfiction.
Education & writing community
- Survey volunteer, VIDA Count, 2017-present
- Graduate, Lighthouse Writers Workshop Book Project (2013-2015)
- Tin House Summer Writers Workshop (nonfiction), studied under David Shields, July 2015
- Attended NonfictioNOW 2015 (Flagstaff) and 2018 (Phoenix)
- Lit Fest nonfiction workshop, studied under Robin Hemley, Lighthouse Writers, July 2014
- Partner in The Writers Block, LLC, a Denver writing space (2010-2017).
- Student and instructor, Lighthouse Writers Workshop (Denver).
- Judge, Colorado Book Awards, 2011.
