Experience

University of Michigan Press

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Author, Millions of Suns (forthcoming November 2023, University of Michigan Press)

  • Feb 2023 - Present



Winchester Thurston School

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Upper School Literature Teacher

  • Sep 2011 - Present

  Awarded the 2016 Jane L. Scarborough award for Teaching Excellence by Winchester Thurston School. Teachers are nominated for this award through unsolicited letters of support written by students and other faculty members. Upper School English literature teacher for students grades 10-12, teaching courses such as Advanced Placement English Literature, British Literature, American Voices, Environmental Literature, and Contemporary Global Literature. Prior to this teaching job, was a full-time Visiting Lecturer of Creative Writing at the University of Pittsburgh, teaching Intro to Creative Writing, Intermediate Poetry Workshop, ,and Reading Poetry workshops. In 2005, awarded the Tina and David Bellet Teaching Award (for those in the Arts and Sciences) for teaching excellence at the University of Pittsburgh. Show less



University of Pittsburgh

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Lecturer

  • Aug 2001 - Aug 2010

  Awarded the 2005 Tina and David Bellet Award for Teaching Excellence by the School of Arts and Sciences. Full-time Visiting Lecturer of Creative Writing, teaching Introduction to Poetry Writing, Poetry Workshop, Composition, Composition: Women's Studies, Introduction to Creative Writing. Worked yearly as a writing tutor in the university's Writing Center. Additionally, awarded the PA Council on the Arts Fellowship Award in 2002 and the Pittsburgh Foundation's artist grant in 2001. Awarded the 2005 Tina and David Bellet Award for Teaching Excellence by the School of Arts and Sciences. Full-time Visiting Lecturer of Creative Writing, teaching Introduction to Poetry Writing, Poetry Workshop, Composition, Composition: Women's Studies, Introduction to Creative Writing. Worked yearly as a writing tutor in the university's Writing Center. Additionally, awarded the PA Council on the Arts Fellowship Award in 2002 and the Pittsburgh Foundation's artist grant in 2001.



Carnegie Mellon University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct lecturer of Poetry

  • Aug 1999 - Dec 2000

  Taught Poetry Workshop for two semesters as an adjunct. Taught Poetry Workshop for two semesters as an adjunct.