Southern Methodist University 2032.

Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences

Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies

Doctor of Philosophy in English

Courses

NEw York University 2026.

Low-Residency

Writers Workshop in PariS

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry)

Courses

  • Mentor: Nicole Sealey

    • Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

    • Begging for It by Alex Dimitrov

    • Mercies: Selected Poems by Anne Sexton

    • Nightingale by Paisley Rekdal

    • Satan Says by Sharon Olds

    • Swoon by Victoria Redel

    • Tell Me by Kim Addonizio

    • The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón

    • Together and by Ourselves by Alex Dimitrov

    • Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück

  • Mentor: Matthew Rohrer

    • Ariel by Sylvia Plath

    • Baby, I Don't Care by Chelsey Minnis

    • Grotesque Weather and Good People by Lim Solah

    • Letters to a Stranger by Thomas James

    • Milk by Dorothea Lasky

    • Sex Depression Animals by Mag Gabbert

    • Slight Return by Rebecca Wolff

    • The Court of No Record by Jenny Molberg

    • The Last Usable Hour by Deborah Landau

    • Welcome to Midland by Logen Cure

    Additional Reading

    • Army of Giants by Matthew Rohrer

    • Fatback Odes by J.D. Reed

    • Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov

    • Skeletons by Deborah Landau

    • Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space by Catherine Barnett

    • Texas Blues & Other Poems by Jim Linebarger

    • The Devil’s Garden by Adrian Matejka

    • Women by Chloe Caldwell

  • Mentor: Matthew Rohrer

    • Dark Things by Novica Tadic (Translated by Charles Simic)

    • Extracting the Stone of Madness by Alejandra Pizarnik

    • Flies by Michael Dickman

    • In The Glittering Maw by Joyce Mansour

    • L’Heure Bleue or The Judy Poems by Elisa Gabbert

    • More Shadow than Bird by Nuar Alsadir

    • Nothing to Declare by Henri Cole

    • The Shining by Dorothea Lasky

    • The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom by Magdalena Zurawski

    • Vasko Popa Selected and Translated by Charles Simic

    Additional Reading

    • Artichoke Season by Susan Antolin

    • The Lover by Margeurite Duras

    • The Years That Went Missing by Susan Antolin

  • Mentor: Kevin Young

    • American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

    • Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon

    • Berryman’s Sonnets by John Berryman

    • Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith

    • Bluets by Maggie Nelson

    • Love Poems by Anne Sexton

    • Magic City by Yusef Komunyakaa

    • The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson

    • The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan

    • Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis

Elon University 2017.

College of the Arts and Sciences

Bachelor of Arts in English (Creative Writing)

Minor in Art

Courses

  • Foundational

    • Writing: Argument and Inquiry

    • Grammar

    Literature

    • Networks as Narratives

    • Victorian Literature and Culture

    • Women Writers

    • Contemporary Writers

    Creative Writing

    • Introduction to Creative Writing

    • Writing the World in Poetry

    • Intermediate Creative Writing (Poetry)

    • Intermediate Creative Writing (Fiction)

    • Creative Writing Seminar

    Research

    • Research in English

    • Art History I: Gods/Emperors

    • Studio I: Ceramics

    • Studio I: Drawing

    • Studio I: Painting

    • Studio II: Painting

    • How Should We Live?

    • Ancient Philosophy

    • Entrepreneurship and Arts

    • Sociology through Film

Honors, Awards & Memberships

  • Elon College Fellows is Elon University's four-year academic and professional program for students within the Arts and Sciences.

    The program focuses on:

    • Breadth of understanding through a strong interdisciplinary arts and sciences education

    • Depth of study through a two-year research experience in a major

    As an English major with a concentration in Creative Writing, my research culminated in an 18-piece poetry collection, which I presented at the University's end-of-year senior poster presentation session.

  • Presidential Scholarships of $8,000 – $12,000 annually are awarded to approximately 15% of entering first-year students. They're merit-based and renewable each year pending acceptable academic performance.

    I was awarded the Scholarship for the entirety of my undergraduate career (2013-2017).

  • Sigma Tau Delta is a US-based international honor society for students of English at four-year universities who are within the top 30% of their class and have a 3.5 GPA or higher.

Continued Education.

Workshops

  • Writing

    • Writing to Imagine Ourselves with Major Jackson

    • What You’re Willing to Discover with Mark Conway

  • Writing

    • A Drop of Mischief: Edna St. Vincent Millay and the Power of the Sonnet with Logen Cure

      • 1 out of 3 sessions

    • Accessing and Assessing the Abstract with Anthony Gabriel

    • Oops! All Couplets with James Davis

Classes

  • Writing

    • Creative Writing with Margaret Atwood

    • Poetic Thinking with Joy Harjo

    • Reading and Writing Poetry with Billy Collins