About Me

A reformed Texan based in Missoula, I moved west to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Montana, where I served as Fiction Editor for Cutbank Literary Magazine. Two of my flash fiction pieces, "Minx, Siren, Norman, Stone" and "Apply Chapstick and Try Again," are available in the Word Dog Quarterly and my short story "The Wilting House on the Mountain" can be read in Duplicitous: A WriteHive Compilation, available on Amazon.

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To read more, please check out the Work tab above. I'm biased, but I bet you'll love it. 

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Since 2016, I've taught with the Free Verse Writing Project, which amplifies the voices of incarcerated and other historically erased youth across rural Montana. I've also taught creative writing workshops with Word Dog, Open AIR (where I was fortunate enough to be an Artist In Residence in 2020), and the University of Montana's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. My latest course spun around themes of the literary grotesque.

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The grotesque smacks its jaws in all my work. Dark humor, unforgettable characters, a roiling sense of place, and wild truth characterize my short stories, flash fictions, screenplays, creative nonfiction, zines, art books, and my current book project.

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I'm also the Grants and Development Manager for Youth Homes. I'm so grateful to do meaningful work alongside remarkable people.

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I suppose that's the resume. When I'm not curled up with a book or a project, I'm looking for new places to snorkel in the mountains. Current obsessions include Remedios Varo, cenotes, and ghosts stories.