Work
Editing
Having to Tell Your Mother Is the Hardest Part (essay collection)
June 2017
You Will Be Able to Say a Thousand Words (multi-genre anthology)
November 2016
Delicious Havoc (essay collection)
October 2016
My Heart Went Beating Fast (short fiction collection)
May 2016
Long Lost (short fiction collection)
May 2015
Everyone Is Moving, No One In Place (poetry collection)
May 2014
Select Publications
Where You Come From Is Gone, Midwestern Gothic (essay)
Issue 23 (Fall 2016)
Paper Lantern and Ecstatic Cahoots by Stuart Dybek, Full Stop (review)
Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures by Emma Straub, Full Stop (review)September 2014
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan, Full Stop (review)January 2013
November 2012
The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen, Full Stop (review)
June 2012
Hare, Saltwater Quarterly (fiction)
Summer 2011
10 Myths About Bookselling, Used Furniture Review (column)
October 2011
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita,The Collagist (review)
August 2011
June 2012
Hare, Saltwater Quarterly (fiction)
Summer 2011
10 Myths About Bookselling, Used Furniture Review (column)
October 2011
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita,The Collagist (review)
August 2011
If You Knew Then What I Know Now by Ryan Van Meter, Ploughshares (review)
August 2011
Hello, My Name Is Lacey and I'm a Book Addict, Used Furniture Review (column)
May 2011
The Amazon Two-Step, Used Furniture Review (column)
March 2011
The Super Nerds, Used Furniture Review (column)
January 2011
The Bookseller and the Stranger, Used Furniture Review (column)
December 2010
Panels, Presentations, & Readings
Organizing Dissent: Arts Organizations in Dangerous Times, Panelist
Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice Annual Symposia, Georgetown University
April 2018
Writing Centers: Building a Community of Writers Outside the Traditional Classroom, Panelist
Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP), Washington, DC
February 2017
Lines + Stars Big Lights Reading Series, Inaugural Reader
Summer 2016
Working with Arts Organizations to Turn Students' Writing into Published Work, Moderator
Teaching and Learning Conference, Washington, DC
March 2015
Literary Citizenship
DC Commission of Arts and Humanities, Grant Reviewer
FY 2016-17
The Marfield Prize/National Award for Arts Writing, Selection Reader
2016-2017
Jenny McKean Moore Fiction Writing Workshop, The George Washington University, Selected Participant
Fall 2016
Minnesota Book Awards, Finalist Judge, Fiction/Short Story Category
2011-2012
Awards & Honors
Loft Writing Mentorship Finalist
2012
Alexis Geneva Knox Fellowship
2006-2007
Melanie Hook Rice Award for Creative Fiction
2005