Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION 

2025     PhD, English and Creative Writing, Binghamton University (Expected in May)

2014     MFA, Creative & Professional Writing, Western Connecticut State University

2002    BA, English, University of Connecticut

AWARDS AND HONORS

2024    S. Stewart and Barbara Baker Gordon Memorial Scholarship, Binghamton University

2024    Marion Clayton Link Endowment in Creative Writing Fellowship, Binghamton University

2023    S. Stewart and Barbara Baker Gordon Memorial Scholarship, Binghamton University

2020    Best of the Net, Nomination, Witness Magazine, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

2020    Best Small Fictions, Nomination, Lunch Ticket, Antioch University

2019     Best of the Net, Nomination, CutBank Literary Magazine, University of Montana 

2018     Pushcart Prize, Nomination, Thin Air Magazine, Northern Arizona University

2014     Sigma Alpha Pi, The National Society of Leadership and Success, WCSU

2014     Thesis Distinction Award, Western Connecticut State University

1998     Alpha Mu Gamma Foreign Language Honor Society, Manchester Community College

AREAS OF INTEREST

19thCentury American Literature, The New England Transcendentalists and the Romantics, The Dark Romantics, The Gothic Novel, Civil War Literature, The Beat Generation, Travel Writing, Nature Writing and Botany, Environmental Writing, Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism, Fiction Writing, and Poetry, Experimental and Hybrid Writing, Art and Photography

PUBLICATIONS

Fiction 

2020 “Window Light,” Gemini Magazine

2020 “Pinned Butterflies,” Lunch Ticket, Issue 16, Winter/Spring

2019 “December, 1993,” Witness Magazine, Vol. 32, No. 3, Winter

2019 “A Friend’s Text,” Running Wild Press, Vol. 3, Fall

2018 “Lilacs,” Jabberwock Review, Vol. 38.2, Winter

2017 “Clinic,” Chicago Literati

2017 “Shades of White,” The Pinch Journal, Vol. 37, Issue 2, Fall

2016 “Saturday Nights in Winter,” Slow the Pace, Scribes Valley Publishing

2015 “The End of Summer,” Neighbors, No. 136

2015 “Hunter Bar,” Blotterature Lit Mag, Vol. 2, Issue 1, Winter

2014 “Loose Ends,” The Oddville Press, Vol. 2, No. 1

2013 “Indian River,” Grasslimb, Vol. 11, No. 2

2013 “Box of Shoes,” Hawaii Pacific Review, Vol. 27, Summer

2013 “Fried Onions,” Prairie Wolf Press Review, Spring

2013 “Nature's New Generation,” Wild Violet

2012 “Somebody's Sweetheart,” Diverse Voices Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 16, Winter

2012 “Sacrifice,” Foliate Oak

2012 “Rabbit Girl,” Folio, Vol. 27, No.1, Spring

2012 “Some of Us,” The MacGuffin, Vol. 28, No. 3, Spring/Summer 

Poetry

2024 "Bloodroot," The Minnesota Review, Spring

2024  “There, And Not There, Glassworks, Spring

2023  “Heat Advisory,” Glassworks, flash glass 

2021 “Bird Shadows,” Prime Number Magazine, Press 53

2019 “A Quiet Blue,” CutBank Literary Magazine, Weekly Prose Poetry

2019 “Girlhood, 1986,” Gris-Gris, Issue 9, Winter

2018 “Dream Hemorrhage,” Switched-On Gutenberg, No. 25, Fall

2018 “Country Lust,” Minerva Rising, The Keeping Room

2018 “I Like the Sound of Your Voice” and “Hometown,” Nebo, V. 36, N. 32, Spring

2018 “The Winter Farmhouse, 1988,” Spillway, No. 26

2018 “First Love, 1994,” Medium: The Scene & Heard

2018 “Dear Watcher,” Thin Air Magazine, Web Feature, Gas Station Hybrid

2018 “Empty Parking Lot, 2:07 a.m.,” “Checkpoint,” and “Horripilation,” The Write Launch, Issue 9

2018 “A Thousand Miles,” Poetry Pacific

2017 “Diagnosis,” Door Is A Jar, Issue 6, Winter

2017 “November, 1993,” Zingara Poetry Review

2017 “Bleeding Heart,” Don't Talk to Me About Love

2016 “Thank You,” Veils, Halos, and Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women, Kasva Press

2012 “Thank You,” Linden Avenue Literary Journal

Visual Art and Photography

2023 “Sophomores,” 805 Lit + Art, Fall

2023 "100 Hangups," “Midnight Walk,” and “After the Murder,” The Indianapolis Review, Issue 25, Summer

2019 "Deadman's Lake," Harbor Review, No. 3

2019 "Rockwall Springs 1F," Blue Mesa Review, Issue 39

2018 "Unity," "Gas Station Coffee," and "Sun Exposure," Sheepshead Review, V. 41,    N. 1, Fall

2018 "Rockwall Springs," The Sandy River Review

2018  "Primal Roots," Star 82 Review, Vol.6, No.1, Spring

2018 "Wild Daisies" and "Wanderlust," Montana Mouthful, No. 1

2018 "To Life," Parentheses Journal, Issue 3

2018 "sTrAnGeLaNd," "Burnout," "Drift," and "Heat," Tattoo Highway, No. 24

2018 "Verano" and "Primavera," Glassworks, Issue 16, Spring

2018 "Holding On," Into the Void, Issue 7, Qtr. 1

2018 "Farmer I," The Nassau Review

2017-2018 "Soulmates," "Dandelion," "Golden Eyes," "Glam," "Arctic Lime," and "SoBe Crush," A Day's Encounter

2017 "The Ash" and "Three Souls," Stonecoast Review

2017 "Birthday Girl," "Screaming Housewives," and "Suburbia," Watershed Review, Vol. 40, No. 01

2017 "Insomnia," "Truth," and "The Snow After Joe's Funeral," Mud Season Review,    No. 34

2017 "Golden Gate," 500 Miles Magazine

2017 "Electromagnetic," "Quicksilver," "Sleepwalking," "Spring Frost," "Acid Rain," "Neon-Crop VI.1," and "Neon-Crop VI.2," Poetry Pacific

2017 "Hunger," Off the Coast, Winter

2017 "Angels," Calyx, Vol. 30, No. 1, Summer/Fall

2017 "Factory I," Four Ties Lit Review, Vol. 1, Issue 6

2017 "Writing in the Forest," "County Storm," "County Storm II," "Suppertime," "Indian Summer," "Back-to-School," "Bonfires," "Crimson and Gold," and "Her Last Words," Talking Writing, Fall 

2017 "Magic," Riddled With Arrows, Vol. 1, No. 2

2017 "Water In My Eyes" and "Saltwater," Young Ravens Literary Review, Issue 6, Summer

2017 "The Day He Came Home" and "Morning Rush," Gulf Stream, Issue 17, Spring

2017 "After School," The Tishman Review, Vol. 3, Issue 3

2017 "Departing Atlantis" and "The Unborn Child," Jet Fuel Review, Issue 13, Fall

2017 "Late Afternoon Light" and "Tea II," Raven Chronicles, Vol. 24

2017 "Breathe," Driftwood Press, Vol. 4, Issue 2, Spring

2016 "Ten Pina Coladas," "Sonic," "Peephole," and "Get Home Before Dark," Hayden's Ferry Review, Issue 59, Fall/Winter

2016 "Slither," San Francisco Peace & Hope

2014 "Boundless II," Blue Lyra Review, Vol. 3, No. 1

2013 "New England Skies," Paper Tape Magazine

2013 "Autumn Twilight," Diverse Voices Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 19, Autumn

2013 "Behind the Scenes," The Meadowland Review​

2013 "Nature III," "Nature IV," "The Stranger," and "Life & Death," Foliate Oak

2013 "Heat," Josephine Quarterly, Summer

2013 "Imbalance," Subprimal Poetry Art, Issue 1

Art & Music Collaborations

2024 Word of Mouth, Lyric & Song Collaboration, Poet: Jenn Powers, Composer: TBA, Binghamton University

2024 AI and Creativity: Poetry and Art in the Post Human Age with Sasha Stiles, “The Waiting,” Poet: Jenn Powers, Artist: Ah’Janae Johnson, Binghamton University

2023 Word of Mouth, Unbreakable Bonds: A Lyric & Song Collaboration, “Hometown,” Poet: Jenn Powers, Composer: Zeke Merlis, Binghamton University

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Modern Language Association (MLA)

The International Women’s Writing Guild (IWWG)

The Thoreau Society

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2025          Instructor, Department of English, Binghamton University 

                  Course: Creative Writing (two semesters)

2022-24     Instructor, Writing Initiative, Binghamton University
                  Course: Inquiry and Academic Writing (four semesters)

2022          Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Binghamton University

                  Course: British Literature II (one semester)

2021           Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Binghamton University

                   Course: American Literature to 1920 (one semester)