CV

Education

Languages

Fellowships

Professional Experience 

Publications

Certifications

Residencies

Readings 

M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Poetry - University of California - Irvine. Irvine, CA, expected 2025.

B.F.A. in Textiles - Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, RI, 2015.

English, French, Korean, Classical Greek, Japanese, German, Biblical Hebrew,
Akkadian, Swahili, Hittite, Mandarin Chinese, Sumerian, Luwain

Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, Poetry Foundation, 2024.

Teaching Fellowship, University of California - Irvine, 2023 - present.

Queer-Writer Fellowship, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, 2021.

Textron Fellowship, Rhode Island School of Design, 2013 - 2015.

Academic 

Poetry Instructor, University of California - Irvine. Irvine, CA, present.

Textiles Instructor, DesignX. Los Altos, CA, 2024.

Composition Instructor, University of California - Irvine. Irvine, CA, 2023 - 2024.

Poetry Instructor, WonderHouse. Nairobi, Kenya, 2022 - 2023.

Interdisciplinary Workshop Facilitator, WonderHouse. Nairobi, Kenya, 2022.

Assistant Textiles Technician, Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, RI, 2012 - 2015.

Editorial 

Reader, Faultline. Irvine, CA, 2023 - present.

Contributing Editor, UNICA. New York, NY, 2019.

Book Reviews

Circuits of the Sacred. Reading Religion. The American Academy of Religion, 2024.

Selected Poems 

"rhinoceros beetles teach boys that life is precious," Stone of Madness Press, 2022.

"Pass me the moon?" UNICA, 2019.

"Black as bone," Hue: Color Culture Theory, 2017.

"Beauty Bucks' Throne Room," Wusgood Mag, 2016.

"shopping for skin, not milk," Hue: Color Culture Theory, 2016.

Chapbooks 

Mostly Candy, self-published, 2019.

Biblical Hebrew - Oxford University, United Kingdom, 2024.

Ancient Languages of Anatolia - Koç University (ANAMED), Turkey, 2024.

Traditional Papermaking - Awagami, Japan, 2012.

Paul Cuffee Scholarship, Cuttyhunk Island Residency, MA, 2022.

Artist-in-Residence, WonderHouse, Nairobi, Kenya, 2022.

Artist-in-Residence, Foundation House, CT, 2021.

Artist Residency, Awagami Factory, Tokushima, Japan, 2012.

Antics! Reading Series, Orange County, CA, 2023 - present.

WonderHouse Poetry Reading Series, Nairobi, Kenya, 2022.

WonderHouse Creative Salon, Nairobi, Kenya, 2022.

New York City Poetry Festival, New York, NY, 2019.

Fleurotica Reading Series, New York, NY, 2019.

Women's Poetry Workshop Reading Series, New York, NY, 2018.