Work
Fiction
"Red Red River Inn"
Permafrost Magazine
Print, January 2019
"The Necklace Eye"
Edna Herzberg Prize for Fiction
First Place, 2011
Poetry
"Gris Gris Bag"
"Rebirth"
"Lucifer"
"The Japanese Maple"
and "Lazarus"
"Vases"
"After Eden"
"Skin"
Whiskey Island
Print, November 2018
Selfies in Ink
Online, July 2013
Julia Carley Prize
Honorable Mention, 2010
Evelyn Hamilton Prize
Honorable Mention, 2010
The Anthologist
Print, Spring 2010
Mosaic
Print, Spring 2010
Photography
"Cathedral of Junk"
Still Life Exhibition at Envision Arts
November 2022
"Hull"
"To the Left of the Restroom"
Published in The Dinner Gathering
November 2019
Teaching
The Short Story
& Generative Novel Workshop
Creative Writing
& Language Arts
& Faculty Advisor of Folio, student literary arts magazine
Westfield High School, Westfield, NJ, 2016 to 2023
Above and Beyond Teacher of the Year, 2022
Language Arts
Abraham Clark High School in Roselle, NJ, 2015-2016
Teacher of the Month December 2015
Creative Writing
& Rhetoric/Composition
Rutgers University in Newark, NJ, 2013-2015
Rhetoric/Composition
Monmouth University in West Long Branch, NJ, 2014-2015
Artist Residencies
Readings
June 26, 27, and 28, 2024
April 7, 2024
August 5, 2018
June 27, 2017
Author Talks
The Reading Room at Military Park, Newark, NJ
November 15, 2016
Brick City Speaks
Gateway Project Spaces, Newark, NJ
June 9, 2014
October 26, 2013
Rutgers MFA reading
KGB Bar, New York, NY
December 11, 2012
Rutgers MFA reading
Coffee Cave, Newark, NJ
Spring 2011
Writers House reading
New Brunswick, NJ