Presentations and Readings

• Poetry Reading, American Literary Review Reading Series August (2026).

• "The Ambling Poet: How Walking Enhances Creativity"at Mormon Scholars in the Humanities 2026

• Poetry Reading, American Literary Review Reading Series August (2025).

• Poetry Reading, American Literary Review Reading Series February (2025).

• Poetry Reading and Panelist, UNT Graduate Spotlight Series “Writing into Wounds: Trauma Writing” (2025).

• Poetry Reading, American Literary Review Reading Series (2024).

• Conference Paper Presentation: “George Herbert Voicing the Divine” at Mormon Scholars in the Humanities at Claremont University (2024). 

• Poetry Reading and Panelist for “Poetry as a Second Witness” at Mormon Scholars in the Humanities at Claremont University (2024). 

• Poetry Reading at Latter-day Saint Artist Retreat (2023).

• Poetry Reading and Panelist at Mormon Scholars in the Humanities at Utah State University (2023).

• Presenter and Panelist, “Rogerian Argument in the Opinion Editorial” English Symposium BYU (2019).

• Poetry Reading, Hydrangea House, SLC, Ut (2018).

• Poetry Reading, BYU WWI Armistice Commemoration, Harold B. Lee Library (2018).

• Poetry Reading, Inscape Release Party (2017).

• Poetry Reading, Paxman Student Reading, BYU English Reading Series (2016).

Education

• Ph.D. in English, Poetry – University of North Texas, Denton, TX, expected graduation Spring 2027

• MFA in English, Creative Writing – Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 2018.

• BA in English – Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 2015.

Awards

• Finalist Frontier Poetry’s Hurt and Healing Contest “Gravida Para” (2025).

• Winner of Paul R. Voertman Prize at Academy of American Poets for “Elegy to My Mother’s Breasts” (2024).

• Finalist BYU Studies Hart-Larson Poetry Contest “Jaredites on the Waves of the Great Deep” (2024).

• Honorable Mention AWP Intro Journals Poetry Contest “Elegy to My Mother’s Breasts” (2024).

• Nominee Best of Net “Estrogen Gives and Estrogen Takes” Citron Review (2022). 

• Winner of Ellipsis Poetry Workshop with Miriam Greenberg at Westminster (2021).

• Semifinalist 100 Years Since the Poppies” in Cutback Chapbook Contest (2019).

• 1st place Mayhew Creative Arts Award Poetry (2018).

• 2nd place Mayhew Creative Arts Award Essay (2018).

• 3rd place Elsie C. Carroll Essay Award Graduate (2017). 

• Blessing-Kagel Creative Writing Award (2017).

• Honorable Mention Mayhew Creative Arts Award Poetry (2017). 

• 2nd place Mayhew Creative Arts Award Essay (2017).

• 3rd place Mayhew Creative Arts Award Short Story (2017). 

• 2nd place Elsie C. Carroll Essay Award Graduate (2016).

Teaching Experience

Teaching Fellow. University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, (2023-present).

English 1310: First Year Writing 

English 1320: College Writing

English 2100: Introduction to Creative Writing

English 3150: Beginning Poetry Writing

Adjunct Instructor. Brigham Young University (2015-2023).

Writing 150: Writing and Rhetoric (25+ sections)

English 218R: Introduction to Creative Writing (5 sections)

English 318R: Fiction Writing Workshop 

Adjunct Instructor. Salt Lake Community College (2019).

Introduction to Poetry

Teaching Internship. Brigham Young University (2017).

  English 218R: Introduction to Creative Writing with Lance Larsen, 

  English 306: Travel Writing with Stephen Tuttle, (UK)

Service in the Profession

• Poetry Editor, American Literary Review, (2026- Present).

• Assistant Poetry Editor, American Literary Review (2025-Present).

• Poetry Reader, American Literary Review (2023-2025).

• Judge, Mayhew Fiction Contest, BYU (2023).

• Judge, English Category, Salt Lake Regional Sterling Scholar Competition (2021-2023).

• Judge, Slam Poetry Competition, American Fork High School (2019).

• Editor in Chief, Inscape: a Journal of Art and Literature (2018).

• Assistant Editor in Chief, Inscape: a Journal of Art and Literature (2017).

• Poetry Editor, Inscape: a Journal of Art and Literature (2016).

Book Reviews

1. "David Lee’s Newest Collection Mines the Gems and the Dross " 15 Bytes. 2020.

2. “Reflections on Modern Manhood: Joey Franklin’s My Wife Wants You to Know I’m Happily Married.” 15 Bytes. 2016.