M.F.A. in CreativeWriting  
August 2022
Florida International University, Florida

M.A. Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
August 2018  
Florida Atlantic University, Florida

Certificate in Nonprofit Management
May 2016
Florida Atlantic University, Florida

B.A. in Liberal Arts, cum laude
May 1991
Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Massachusetts   

Select PUBLICATIONS

Black Mestiza, Poetry Collection, January 2025
University Press of Kentucky

Pushcart Prize XLIX, the 49th edition (Print)), December 2024
Poetry: Black Person Head Bob

West Trestle Review, September 2024
Poetry: Why Don’t You Write About Joy

Goodbye Print Anthology (Print), July 202
Poetry: Rebuilding Mother

Meridians Journal (Print), April 2024
Poetry: Open Your Mouth

South Florida Poetry Journal, February 2024
Poetry: Dear Sociopath

Literary Mama, November 2023
Poetry: My Mother’s Advice

Cut Bank Journal (Print), September 2023                             
 Poetry: Talisman, Open Your Mouth

Poetry Chapbook: Bottlecap Press, August 2023
Alien(s)

Typehouse Magazine (Print), July 2023 
Poetry: My Mother and I Save Our Yogurt Containers to Reuse Them
Brown Girl,
We Are Very Witchy,
To Watch The Emmet Till Movie

Torch Literary Arts
Black Person Head Bob

Viewless Wings
Poem: Hammerhead

Scapegoat Review March 2023
Poetry: Sweet and Low

Creative Nonfiction

Slag Glass City March 2023
Memoir Excerpt: Not a Blade of Grass Between Us 

Miniskirt Magazine November
Flash Fiction: Night Rises from Their Bodies

Chapter House Journal January
Creative nonfiction: Black Belly Sheep, and The Secret of the Pawpaw Tree

Antithesis Blog January
Creative nonfiction: Entering Into the House of Women

South Florida Poetry Journal January 2021
Creative Nonfiction: How to Be a Writer: My Twenty-Year Plan

Book Reviews

West Trade Review
The Sweet Home of Legend and Reminiscence: Knitting the Past and Present in Deborah D. E. E. P. Mouton’s Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth

The Human Prospect  July 2019
Memoir Excerpt: Real Mothers and Otherwise Print Journal

Florida Atlantic University  August 2018
Real Mothers and Otherwise: on ProQuest

Florida Atlantic University  and Old Davie School Historical Museum 2017
Oral History of Bottner Jumper

Fiction

Miniskirt Magazine November
Flash Fiction: Night Rises from Their Bodies

HONORS AND AWARDS 
2024
Pushcart Award Winner for the Poem Black Person Head Bob
2023
Winner of the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series Prize in poetry
Finalist in the AWP Kurt Brown Scholarship in Creative Nonfiction, a Semifinalist for the Scotti Merrill Award in Poetry
Semifinalist for the Two Sylvia Press Wilder Poetry Prize
Key West Literary Seminar Workshop Fellow
Nonfiction Runner up FIU Student Literary Awards
2022
Best of the Net nominee
2020
First place  
Latin American Training Center Brazil-Florida Student Screenplay Treatment Competition
2018
Women, Gender, and Gender Studies Fellowship, Florida Atlantic University
2016-2018
Feminist Scholarship Fund Scholar, Feminist Scholarship Fund, Boca Raton, Florida 2017-2018

WRITING, EDITING, AND COMMUNITY

Member of Aunt Lute Press board, May 2025-present
A member of the working board of Aunt Lute Press. Providing guidance and helping to make decisions for the indie press Aunt Lute.

Editor in Chief, Purple Ink Press

Guest Editor, Palette Poetry 2023-2024
Providing actionable feedback on poems submitted to Palette Poetry, with the goal of helping poets effectively revise their work.

Guest Editor, Frontier Poetry 2023-2024
Providing actionable feedback on poems submitted to Frontier Poetry, with the goal of helping poets effectively revise their work.

Editorial Feedback Consultant at Craft Literary Magazine 2023- 2024
Offering pointed and detailed editorial feedback on creative prose for a busy literary magazine

Associate Editor, Creative Nonfiction at West Trade Review Literary Magazine
2022–2023
Reviewing prose submitted to the magazine, being part of a team that selects pieces to be published in the online and print magazine, providing feedback to authors when requested, working with authors to refine and polish their work for publication, writing book reviews and craft essays

Ghostwriter
2022–Present

Freelance Editor of creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry
2019–Present
Working with writers at all levels and assisting them in elevating their work  

Reader Gulfstream Literary Magazine                    
2020–2022                                   
Part of a team that reviewed writing for publication in Gulfstream Literary Magazine

TEACHING & ADVISING

Adjunct Professor  2020–Present
Department: English Department, Florida International University
Teaches Introduction to Creative Writing: CRW3010 Creative Writing: Forms
and Practices

Adjunct Professor 2022-2023
Department: English Department, Miami Dade College
Teaches Composition 1101 and 1102

Graduate Teaching Assistant 2022
Department: Creative Writing, Florida International University
Taught Introduction to Creative Writing: CRW3010 Creative Writing: Forms and Practices

Graduate Teaching Assistant 2016–2018
Department: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Florida Atlantic University
Taught two undergraduate classes in The Women, Gender, and Sexuality department: Introduction to Women Studies and Introduction to Sexuality and Gender

Department: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Florida Atlantic University  
Teaching Assistant in Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Sociology department
Organized and led group discussions on social and academic issues

VOLUNTEERING

Mentor 2017-2018
Florida Atlantic University
Counseled undergraduate transfer students on issues such as pacing themselves and successfully completing goals.

Mentor  2019–Present
Take Stock in Children High School scholarship program

Mentor 2022–Present
Kabbalah Center of South Florida