Academic Experience 

PIERCE COLLEGE DISTRICT, Puyallup, WA  

2020-present |Associate Professor| Online, face-to-face, & hybrid classes in: ENGL&101, ENGLC101, ENGL&102, Engl&107, HUM 204, ENGL&236, ENGL&235 

PIERCE COLLEGE DISTRICT, Puyallup & Lakewood, WA  

2018-2020 |Adjunct Instructor| Online and face-to-face classes in: ENGL&101, ALP ENG99/101, ENGL&102.  

GREEN RIVER COLLEGE, Auburn, WA  

2016-2020 |Adjunct Instructor| Hybrid, online, and face-to-face classes in: ENGL&101, ENGL99, ENG126, ENG127, ENG128, & READ094.  

FREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT OF PUGET SOUND, Women’s Correctional Center of Washington, Purdy, WA  

2018-2019 | Volunteer | Co-taught face-to-face classes in: ENG101, ENG102 & ENG95  

HIGHLINE COLLEGE, Des Moines, WA  

2018|Adjunct Instructor| Face-to-face ENG 200.  

SOUTH Puget Sound COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Olympia, WA  

2017|Adjunct Instructor| Face-to-face ENGL&101.  

BELHAVEN UNIVERSITY, Jackson, MS 

2015-2016|Adjunct Instructor| Face-to-face ENGL101 & ENGL102.  

Presentations 

• Sewing Kits, Writing Pedagogy, and Other Half-Baked Schemes, 2024 TYCA-PNW Conference 

• Pedagogical Play: Casual Creators, Reggio Emilia, and Luddite Ludus, 2023 TYCA-PNW Conference 

• Effective Communication and Information Literacy Core Abilities, Pierce College Fall Faculty In-Service, 2022  

• Professional Development at GRC, English Division, Green River 2020 

• From “Beowulf” to Kendrick Lamar: Equitable Language in the English Composition Classroom, 2019 TYCA-PNW & PNWCA  

• Interactive Reading, deComposing Engl&01, SBCTC, Vancouver, WA, 2018 

• Reading to Write with ‘Is Google Making Us Stupid?’, English Division, Green River 2018 

• Poetry & Fiction, Belhaven University, 2014 

Awards 

Cutthroat Magazine Discovery Poet | 2016 

Joy Harjo Poetry Award| CUTTHROAT MAGAZINE| 2015 

First Place, Psalm Translation Competition | STRUCTO JOURNAL | 2015 

First Place, Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival | 2014 

Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize | RUMINATE MAGAZINE | 2011 

Elizabeth Spencer Creative Writing Award | BELHAVEN UNIVERSITY | 2011 

Honorable Mention, Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize,| RUMINATE MAGAZINE | 2009 

Publication & Projects 

• Humanities 101 Quilt Bomb Project | 2024 | https://quiltbombproject.com/ 
• Sonora Review| 2021 | Issue 77 
• Rhino Poetry | 2018 
• Tupelo Pres | 2016 | 30/30 Poet 
• Cutthroat Magazine| 2016 | Issue 14
• Cutthroat Magazine| 2015 | Issue 13: The Best of Cutthroat
• Structo| 2015 | Issue 14
• Louisiana Cultural Vistas| 2014 
• Rock & Sling| 2012 | Winter/Spring 
• Gently Read Literature| 2011 | Featured Artist 
• Ruminate Magazine| 2011 | Issue 21 
• Ruminate Magazine| 2009 | Issue 13