Education

MARc in Religion & the Arts - Yale Divinity School. New Haven, CT, expected 2028.
MFA in Poetry, Critical Theory emphasis - University of California, Irvine. Irvine, CA, expected 2025.
BFA in Textiles - Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, RI, 2015.

Languages

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

Fellowships

Schaeffer Graduate Fellowship, International Center for Writing & Translation at UC Irvine, 2025.
Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, Poetry Foundation, 2024.
Teaching Fellowship, UC Irvine, 2023 - 2025.
Queer-Writer Fellowship, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, 2021.
Textron Fellowship, RISD, 2013 - 2015.

Professional Experience 

Academic 

Poetry Instructor, UC Irvine. Irvine, CA, present.
Textiles Instructor, DesignX. Los Altos, CA, 2024.
Composition Instructor, UC Irvine. Irvine, CA, 2023 - 2024.
Poetry Instructor, WonderHouse. Nairobi, Kenya, 2022 - 2023.
Interdisciplinary Workshop Facilitator, WonderHouse. Nairobi, Kenya, 2022.
Assistant Textiles Technician, RISD. Providence, RI, 2012 - 2015.

Editorial 

Reader and Copyeditor, Faultline. Irvine, CA, 2023 - 2025.
Contributing Editor, UNICA. New York, NY, 2019.

Certifications

Biblical Hebrew - Oxford University, United Kingdom, 2024.
Ancient Languages of Anatolia - Koç University (ANAMED), Turkey, 2024.
Traditional Papermaking - Awagami, Japan, 2012.

Residencies

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.

Readings

Antics! Reading Series, Orange County, CA, 2023 - 2025.
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.

Publications

Book Reviews

When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven. Reading Religion. The American Academy of Religion, forthcoming 2025.
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.