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EDUCATION
-PhD in English (Creative Writing-Poetry), University of Illinois Chicago, 2019-Present (Expected Completion Fall 2024)
-PhD in English (Creative Writing-Poetry), SUNY Binghamton, Attended 2018-2019
-MFA in Writing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2006
-BA in English-Creative Writing, Miami University, 1999

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
—Academic Writing I (Writing in Academic and Public Contexts): Haunted People, Places, and Spaces in Film and Literature (ENGL 160), Instructor of Record, Dept. of English, UIC, Fall 2023
–Introduction to the Writing of Poetry (ENGL 290), Instructor of Record, Dept. of English, UIC, Spring 2023
–Introduction to the Writing of Nonfiction Prose (ENGL 292), Instructor of Record, Dept. of English, UIC, Fall 2022
–Introduction to the Writing of Creative Nonfiction (ENGL 201), Instructor of Record, Dept. of English, UIC, Spring 2022
–Academic Writing I (Writing in Academic and Public Contexts): Chicago’s Wild! Public Parks and How We Interact with Them (ENGL 160), Instructor of Record, Dept. of English, UIC, Fall 2021
-Guest Lecturer on the Lyric Essay for Carrie McGath, Introduction to Creative Writing, Dept. of English, Lewis University, Fall 2021
–English Literature II: 1600-1900 (ENGL 242), Instructor of Record, Dept. of English, UIC, Summer 2021
–Introduction to the Writing of Poetry (ENGL 210), Instructor of Record, Dept. of English, UIC, Spring 2021
–Academic Writing II: Writing within Your Major (ENGL 161), Instructor of Record, Dept. of English, UIC, Spring 2020
–American Literature to 1920 (ENG 270), TA for Elizabeth Tucker, Dept. of English, SUNY Binghamton, Spring 2019
–British Literature I (ENG 227), TA for Michael Sharp, Dept. of English, Dept. of English, SUNY Binghamton, Fall 2018
-Guest Lecturer (three classes) for Luis Urrea, Advanced Writing of Creative Nonfiction (ENGL 492), Dept. of English, UIC, Spring 2018
-Poetry Writing Coach, Open Books Ltd., Chicago, IL, Summer 2017
–Introduction to Film Analysis, TA for Patricia Erens, Dept. of Art History, Theory and Criticism, SAIC, Spring 2006

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
-Staff Reader: Harpur Palate (2018-2019)
-Open Submissions Reader: Pithead Chapel (2017), Midwestern Gothic (2015-2017), Kore Press (2014-2015)
-Sole Proprietor, Contract and Freelance Writer and Editor, BookIvy Word Studio (clients include the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago and the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley), 2013-2017
–Freelance Art Writer, 2006-2008

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
-Co-Director, Digital Humanities Initiative, Institute for the Humanities, UIC, July 2020-December 2021
-Center Coordinator, Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago, 2015-2016
-Executive Faculty Assistant, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, 2012-2013
-Graduate Program Assistant, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, 2011-2012
-Project Coordinator, Andes-Amazon Initiative, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 2008-2011
-Administrative Coordinator, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 2010-2011
-Faculty Assistant, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 2008-2010

PUBLICATIONS
Poetry
-Fault 1811/2011, Midway Journal, vol. 17, issue 3, forthcoming July 2023
–Elegy for Birdsong: Two Dead Thrushes, Lover’s Eye Press, September 2021
–Fort Defiance, Lover’s Eye Press, September 2021
–Bone Child, Lover’s Eye Press, September 2021
–Ghost, HeartWood Literary Magazine, Fall 2020
–Grown Wild, HeartWood Literary Magazine, Fall 2020
-Roots, The Muses’ Gallery, Fall 2020/Winter 2021
-Witness, MidAmerica, vol. XLVI, February 2020
–Fun Punch, Anti-Heroin Chic
–Wasteland (for Antonina Tumkovsky), The Light Ekphrastic
–Missed, SPANK the CARP
–Upon My 40th Spring, Green Hills Literary Lantern
–Dear Little Me, decomP magazinE
–Octobers, Ink: Art, Poetry, and Prose

Collaborations and Anthologies
–The Majesty of Trees: Poets & Artists Respond Root, Trunk, & Branch, Poetry Anthology, Highland Park Poetry, 2020.
–Metal, Dennis Manarchy (photographer) and Carla Barger (writer), 2009.
–Objet d’Art, Dennis Manarchy (photographer) and Carla Barger (writer), 2007.

Reviews, Criticism, Art Essays
–ARTisSpectrum: The Chelsea Perspective Vol. 17 and Vol. 18
–Miranda July Understand Me and You and Everyone We Know, F Newsmagazine
–Mike Hoolboom’s Imitations of Life, F Newsmagazine
–BLO Nightly News, Barbie Liberation Organization, F Newsmagazine
–At the Video Databank: Hester Scheurwater Videoworks, Volume One, F Newsmagazine
-Peter Greenaway in Conversation at the Chicago Humanities Festival, F Newsmagazine
–Chicago International Film Festival: Bitter Dream and Apres Vous, F Newsmagazine
-Chicago International REEL Shorts Film Festival: Robot Boy and Gay by Dawn, F Newsmagazine

WORK IN COLLECTIONS
–Objet d’Art. Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Donated 2007.

READINGS AND EXHIBITIONS
-The Poetry Salon, Featured Reader, Chicago, IL 2019
-Program for Writers Reading Series, UIC, Reader with Javier Zamora, Chicago, IL 2019
-Catherine Edelman Gallery, Reader, Chicago, IL 2019
-Woman Made Gallery, Reader, Chicago, IL 2019
-The Splat Flats Lumbart, Reader, Chicago, IL, 2007
-Betty Rhymer Gallery, Artist’s Book, Chicago, IL, 2006

DIGITAL AND PUBLIC HUMANITIES PROJECTS
–Redacted: Suicide, Big Ag, and Climate Crisis / Elegy for the American Farmer, Principal Investigator, July 2020-Present
–The Endo/Exo Writers Project: Computing Class in U.S. and U.K. Novels, 1880-1940, UIC Digital Humanities Initiative, Co-Investigators: Lennard Davis (UIC), Alexander Dunst (University of Paderborn, Germany), Hannah Huber (University of the South), Carla Barger (UIC), Travis Mandell (UIC), August 2019-Present

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
-Selected poems from the collection “Two Dead Thrushes: Elegy for Birdsong,” Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Annual Symposium, Michigan State University, June 1-3, 2023
-Selected poems from the collection “Home / Sick,” Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Annual Symposium, Michigan State University, May 16-18, 2019
-“Transclass Poetry: Witness from the Liminal Space,” Writing by Degrees biannual conference, Binghamton University, SUNY, April 27, 2019

HONORS AND AWARDS
-AWP Intro Journals Project nomination, UIC, 2020
–David Diamond Student Writing Prize, Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, 2019
-AWP Intro Journals Project nomination, SUNY Binghamton, 2018
-Wormfarm Institute Artist’s Residency, 2018
-Ink Jury Award Shortlist for “Octobers,” 2005
-Malcolm Sedam Creative Writing Award for Poetry, Miami University, 1994

SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
–Writing in Depth Academic Writing Retreat, Summer 2023
-Founder and Director, Digital Humanities Graduate Student Network, UIC, 2021-2022
-Peer Mentor, Department of English, UIC, 2020-Present
-Diversity & Recruitment Committee, Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, 2020-2021
-Digital Scholarship Committee, UIC, 2020-2021
-Juror, Documentary Features, Blow-Up International Film Festival, 2018
-Events Committee, Independent Film Project Chicago, 2007

MEMBERSHIPS
–National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity 2019-Present
-Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature 2018-Present
-Association of Writers and Writing Programs 2003-Present
-Association for the Study of Literature and Environment 2020-2023
-International Society for Contemporary Legend Research 2019-2022
-Chicago Writers Association 2014-2018
-Chicago Women in Publishing 2014-2017
-Editorial Freelancers Association 2014-2017