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