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Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas, United States

I work for a bookstore and community space in Austin, TX specializing in small press fiction, non-fiction, poetry, comics, and works in translation. My position is split between day-to-day operation of the shop (sales, displays, curation, etc.) and events planning, correspondence, and logistics.

Austin, Texas, United States

I work with filmmakers to develop teaching guides and resources around POV's current season of documentaries. This entails correspondence, collaborating with writers and filmmakers, editing, research, and writing educational materials.

Austin, Texas, United States

As a poetry instructor, I designed and implemented a semester-long introductory poetry course in which my students maintained a poet’s notebook, engaged generously with one another’s work in workshops, and generated poems through exercises, freewriting, and revision. Additionally, we read poetry and related craft essays from a variety of perspectives in.

Austin, Texas, United States

As an associate editor, I engaged in weekly collaborative editorial meetings to discuss prose, poetry, and art submissions, as well curating, ordering, and formatting our annual issue. I contributed to the editorial process by reading weekly slush submissions and becoming proficient in InDesign. As archives editor, I managed an ongoing project called.

As a TA for the English department, I guided students in analytical and college-level writing skills, facilitated weekly discussion sections of 25 students each in which students engaged with course texts, critical writing skills, and contextualized literature and literary movements in small and large groups, and maintained weekly office hours to discuss.

Austin, Texas Area

• Designed and taught a three-week summer writing course for 4th and 5th graders where we explored the craft of poetry, essay, and fiction, on paper and in performance (15 students for the three-week course)
• Develops lessons for students of all ages that hone formal style, story structure, critical reading and thinking skills
• Taught a weekly creative writing workshop from September to December for Spanish ESL 4th graders in the Austin Independent School District’s VICTORY (10 students in the workshop), as well as adult workshops throughout.

Austin, TX

Teaches 11th and 12th grade English, designs English curriculum used throughout the Austin School District, facilitates the D&D and Creative Writing Clubs, organizes yearly student submissions to the poetry contests, and mentors students on college essays and creative writing projects.

Austin, Texas Area

Currently I work at Gonzalo Garza High School with the English and History departments covering classes, working one-on-one with students, and editing their district-wide online curriculum.

• Maintained prison libraries, responded to prisoner correspondence, and provided requested resources.
• Navigated New York City’s jail system in order to secure reading materials for inmates and access to holding facilities at Riker’s Island.

Greater New York City Area

• Edited and wrote content as a feature writer for ManhattanSideways.com, a Manhattan life website.
• Duties included writing reviews, editing web-content, and conducting interviews with organizations, artists, and business owners across Lower Manhattan.

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Poetry

I completed a full-residency MFA program with the New Writers Project. This involved taking multi-genre workshops in poetry, fiction, and.

Bachelor Of The Arts (B.A.), Writing, Writing (Creative, Technical, Rhetoric, Style, & Copy Editting), Philosophy, & Theater

Activities and Societies: Graduated Cum laude; 2009, 2010, 2011, & 2012 Deans List Honoree; Writing Honors Society, Pi Epsilon Pi.

Education record

I attended the University of Auckland for six months on a student exchange from Loyola University Maryland. While there I studied the.