Education

2014​

• The New School, NYC, M.F.A. in Fiction

2008

• Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, B.A. in Literature & Creative Writing

Publications

2018         

• "A Boy Who Does Not Remember His Father" -  in SmokeLong Quarterly (Issue 60 / 15th Anniversary Issue / June 2018)
• "Ron” in Tin House (Issue 75 | Spring 2018 Candy Issue)
• “End Grain” in The Iowa Review (Issue 47/3 | Winter 2017/2018)
• “We Are Trying to Understand You” in TriQuarterly (Issue 153 | Winter 2018)

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 2017

• "How to Survive on Land" reprinted in Menacing Hedge (first published in New Ohio Review, Fall 2016)

   2016

• “Night Circus” in PANK  
• “How to Survive on Land” (short story) in New Ohio Review 
• “The Forgiveness Machine” in F(r)iction

 
   2015

• “Squirrel, Leopard, Goat” in Tin House The Open Bar 

Honors, Awards, Grants

2018

• Tuition Scholar in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 2018
• Grant winner, The Elizabeth George Foundation - (to support research and completion of the novel "How to Survive on Land")
• American Short(er) Fiction Contest (finalist), American Short Fiction
• SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (finalist), SmokeLong Quarterly
  

 
2017

• Gulliver Travel Research Grant, The Speculative Literature Foundation - (for research on the novel "How to Survive on Land")
• Best of the Net Award Nomination, Menacing Hedge - (for "How to Survive on Land" - reprinted from New Ohio Review)
• Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2017, Wigleaf - (for "Night Circus," published in PANK)
• Tin House Scholarship (finalist), Tin House
• Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship (finalist), Bread Loaf
• American Short(er) Fiction Contest (semi-finalist), American Short Fiction

 
2016

• Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest (Honorable Mention), Ploughshares - (for "How to Survive on Land")
• Flash Fiction Contest Winner, F(r)iction Magazine - ( for "The Forgiveness Machine")
• Kathy Fish Fellowship (finalist), Smokelong Quarterly
• Dead Bison Editor’s Prize (finalist), Arcadia Press
• Short Story Challenge (4th Place), NYC Midnight

 
    2007

• Mary McCarthy Award in Writing, Bard College

Editing and Literary Magazine Work

2018 - present

• West Branch, Associate Fiction Editor

2017

• Slice, Fiction Reader

2011-2012

• Lit, Fiction Reader

2007-2008

• Conjunctions, Intern and Editorial Assistant

Teaching

2017 –present
Grub Street, Boston, MA

• Writing Instructor
• Courses taught: Flash Fiction, The Art of the Opening, Intro to Fiction

                                
2017—present​
Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop, Northampton, MA

• Founder / Director/ Writing Instructor
• Courses taught: Various one-day and multi-week writing workshops. 

​2012—2013            
The New School, New York, NY

• Teaching Assistant

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2011—2013
Private Prep, New York, NY

• Writing & English Tutor

 
2008—2010
Gregorio Luperon High School, New York, NY

• English Teacher