READINGS, AWARDS, PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

A Reading, "Precocious," St. Mary's University MFA Program, 2023

Winner, Barry Lopez Prize for Nonfiction, "Memoir Map: An Autobiographical Cartography of Central Texas," Cutthroat Journal, 2022

A Reading, “Home Pain and Moving Sickness,” New York University, Paris, France, 2022

“Parravani and Me: an Exercise,” Odes to Our Undoing Anthology, Risk Press, 2022

“Laws of Primogeniture,” The Dead Mule School, 2022

“Abortion bans, COVID death and government neglect: You Californians still want to move to Texas?,” San Francisco Chronicle & The Houston Chronicle, 2021

“Finding Home on Shaky Ground: A Review of Nadia Owusu’s Aftershocks,” The Harvard Review, 2021

Review, “Just Us by Claudia Rankine,” E3W Review of Books, 2021

Editor, “Horrible White People” by Brice Ezell, E3W Review of Books, “Everyday Anarchies,” 2021

“She Found Love in the Archives: A Review of Jenn Shapland’s My Autobiography of Carson McCullers,” The Chattahoochee Review, 2020

Faculty Reading, “Ride Along,” The Writer's Hotel Conference, 2020

“Ivy,” The Raw Art Review, Spring 2020

Top Writer, Education, Medium, 2020

“What I Learned Teaching Literature Inside,” The Write Launch, 2019

A Reading, “SPJST Hall,” KGB Literary Journal, 2019

“Parent-teacher Conference,” Sonder Midwest, 2019

Panel Participant, “The Political Economies of Language Arts Education Now” National Conference for Teachers of English, St Louis, Missouri, 2017

Moderator, “What we wish we knew about college,” INSPIRE: Empowering Texas Womyn Leaders Panel for Middle School Girls, 2017

Roundtable Participant, “MS Harley 2253: What Women Read at Home,” Household Knowledges, New Chaucer Society Biennial Conference, London, England, 2016

Moderator, “Inspiring Women Undergraduate Research Presentation,” UT Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Student Conference, 2016

Panelist, "Close Reading Interpretive Tool: Transforming How We Teach Close Reading," Technology in the Classroom Panel, South Central Modern Language Association, 2014

Organizer, “Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN) Day Panel,” UT Women’s and Gender Studies INSPIRE Program, 2011

Panelist, “Sexuality and Violence in Harley 2253,” Babel Conference, Boston, MA, 2012

Panelist, “Wicked Horses: Performing Women’s Will in Harley 2253,” UT Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Student Conference, 2012