education
MFA, Creative Writing & Publishing Design:
University of Baltimore, completion expected 2011
MA, Writing:
The Johns Hopkins University,
December 2006
BA, English:
St. Mary's College of Maryland,
May 1995
awards
Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, Poetry, 2009
publications
Little Patuxent Review, “Figs on a Plate,” “Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn Comfort
Billie Holiday in the Women’s Bathroom,” and “Reading Kafka on the Train” (poems), (Spring 2007)
CircleSix Magazine, “Dad’s Gone AWOL: The Damaging Effects of an Absent Father”, (Winter 2006)
work experience
Adjunct Faculty
Undergrad Writing Professor, University of Baltimore
Spring 2010
Project Manager
Words & Numbers, Baltimore, MD
May 2009 | Present
Associate Director of Reading
Monotype, LLC, Baltimore, MD
June 2008 | March 2009
Senior Editor
Monotype, LLC, Baltimore, MD
August 2006 | June 2008
Editor
Connections Academy, Educate, Inc., Baltimore, MD
April 2003 | August 2006
Freelance Book Editor
August, 2008
In The Pursuit Of Peace, Scott Carroll
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