Experience

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  Self

  • Writer

    • 2009 - Present

    Publication CreditsBooksROAD TRIP: Paperback90 pp.15 photosISBN 978-0-9895151-9-1 Published June 2015 by Twelve Winters Press. ROAD TRIP was short-listed for the Paris Literary Prize in 2011, the centerpiece of a collection that was a finalist for the 2012 Flannery O’Connor Award in Short Fiction, and first runner-up in the 2014 Quarterly West Novella Contest. Fiction:“Ashes, Ashes,” The Gettysburg Review, Spring 2013. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.A selection from The Third Twin was published in The Papercuts Anthology: What Happened Here, 2016Creative Nonfiction:“The Unsaved,” Brevity, Issue 40, Fall 2012“Faithful,” Brevity, Issue 47, Fall 2014"Fictions of the City,"​ Slag Glass City"​In the Split,"​ The Ocean State Review, Vol. 5, Summer 2015“First Home, Last Home,” Right Here, Right Now: The Buffalo Anthology, Belt Publishing, November 2016."Men I Hate: The Stasi Men," Guernica, March 2, 2021“The Annual Bonfire,” Short Reads, April 10, 2024Current ProjectsTHE SCHEME OF SPACES. Creative nonfiction collection of essays. Essays are based on Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language. Each essay explores one or more of Alexander’s architectural patterns with a narrative meditation that relates spaces, building and design elements, local and personal history to my experience of Chicago, Boston, and St. Louis.

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  Associated Writing Program Conference 2021

  • Panelist

    • Jan 2021 - Feb 2021

    Betrayed: Writing About Family, Friends, and Loved OnesAs poets and prose writers, our creative process is complicated by our anticipation of our loved ones' reactions to our work. We risk harming real-life relationships, and may expose ourselves and others to legal liability. How do we address these conflicts in our writing and in our lives, and what choices can we make to protect ourselves, our work, and our loved ones? We'll discuss strategies to mitigate the potential for liability and emotional harm before and after publication.

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  Howlround.com

  • Emerson College

  • Content editor

    • 2010 - 2018
    • Emerson College

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  NonfictionNOW 15

  • Flagstaff, Arizona Area

  • Panelist on Poessaytics of Form panel

    • Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
    • Flagstaff, Arizona Area

    Panelist on Poessaytics of Form Panel at NonfictionNOW 15 conference in Flagstaff, AZ Oct 28-Oct 31, 2015with Barrie Jean Borich, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, Paul Lisicky, and Brenda MillerThe Poessaytics of Form What are the sounds, spaces, and artifacts of nonfiction? How do our essays, memoirs, and lyrics succeed in leaping, layering, and juxtaposing? How do we render our silences, pattern our associations, and image our intimacies? This panel on the poetics of nonfiction explores metaphorical structures, fragmented impressions, hybrid strategies, and fluidity of language, to reveal how we bring lyric memory, experience, and interpretation to the literary page. Panelists will discuss how they’ve used collage structures, relics as subject and infrastructure, photographic narrative, evocations of presence and absence, the roominess of hybridity, the intimate speaker, and the vaults and echoes of segmented structure, and will address how these strategies come to play in an array of contemporary nonfiction writers’ works.

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  U of Wisconsin-Madison at the Madison Business School & the Bolz Center for Arts Administration

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Guest Lecturer

    • Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

    I presented two lectures to business students for a course on Beauty and Aesthetics. The first lecture was “Wander to Wonder: The difference between having an experience, telling a story, and crafting an essay.” The second lecture considered “Self Portraits of Vivian Maier and Francesca Woodman: Obscuring of the Self as Revelation.”

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  The Playwrights' Center

  • Minneapolis, MN

  • Editor

    • 2000 - 2010
    • Minneapolis, MN

    Communications support including creating marketing and fundraising materials, grant writing, and editing

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  Ten Thousand Things

  • Minneapolis. MN

  • Freelance Copywriter

    • 2000 - 2010
    • Minneapolis. MN

    Communications support including creating marketing and fundraising materials

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  Thomson Reuters Westlaw

  • Eagan, Minnesota

  • Senior Copywriter

    • 2000 - 2009
    • Eagan, Minnesota

    As a member of a group of nearly 80 art directors, writers, account executives, and account coordinators, I worked on a creative team to provide advertising and marketing strategy for business units serving legal professionals. •Developed creative to enhance customer acquisition campaigns to support sales, including product-specific promotions and personalized customer communications•Created all communication tactics for clients including catalog, direct mail, advertising campaigns, web presence, product brochures, sales collateral, trade show, and incentive programs•Member of branding team that led rebranding of Thomson Reuters, including migrating thousands of pieces of creative to follow new master brand guidelines