Contact Information
608 S Wright Street
M/C 718
Urbana, IL 61801
M/C 718
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Creative Writing: Poetry; The Public Poem and Poetics; Ekphrasis; The Long Poem; Epistolary Poetry; The Love Poem
Education
- PhD in Creative Writing and Literature: University of Cincinnati
- MFA in Creative Writing: Purdue University
- BA Lewis & Clark College
Awards and Honors
National Endowment for the Arts Fellow: Creative Writing
Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry
Levis Reading Prize (VCU)
selected publications
- Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens (forthcoming from Tupelo Press, 2021)
- Antidote (winner of the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry; Ohio State University Press, 2013)
Highlighted Publications
- Reader, I (Sarabande Books, 2024)
- Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens (Tupelo Press, 2022)
- Antidote (winner of the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry; Ohio State University Press, 2013)