TEACHING 

Faculty Mentor, Storyteller Fellowship, Boyd's Mill, PA, Jan 2026 - Present

LAMBDA Literary LGBTQ Writer in Schools, 2026 - Present

Writing Coach, A Wild Word, NY, June 2020 - Present

Retreat Assistant, Highlight's Rainbow Retreat, PA, 2024

Special guest, Highlight's Write the Rainbow, Highlights Foundation, PA, 2020

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EDITORIAL WORK 

Faculty Advisor, Brio, New York University, NY 2017 - Present

Screener, The Rumpus, NY; March 2019 - Sept 2019

Screener, Miami Book Fair/ de Groot Prize, Miami, FL; August 2017

Editorial Intern, Archipelago Books, Brooklyn, NY; March 2012 – May 2012

Freelance Journalist, The Towne Crier, Sullivan County, NY; 2006 – 2007

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HONORS

Fellow, Lambda Literary Writing Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Writers, 2024

Stonewall Award Honoree, ALA annual Conference, San Diego, 2024

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WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES, RETREATS

Boyds Mills Storyteller Retreat, 2026

Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, 2026

LGBTQIA+ Peer Retreat, MilkWood, 2024

Scholarship recipient, Highlight's Summer Camp in fiction, 2023

Scholarship Recipient, courage to create with Jessixa Bagley, The Writer's Barn, 2022

The Children's Book Academy: Graphic Novel Success stories, 2022

SCBWI Regional Winter conference, 2022

Scholarship Recipient, Hope is the Howl Writing Workshop, Corporeal Writing, 2021

Write Your Heart In w/ Andrea Gibson, 2021

SCBWI Regional summer conference, 2020

Scholarship Recipient, Highlight's Write the Rainbow, Highlights Foundation, 2019

SCBWI Regional summer conference, 2019

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EDUCATION

MFA in Poetry, Sarah Lawrence College, 2013

B.A. in Literature, Philosophy, Sociology, SUNY Purchase College, 2007