Image by Kat Simecek of Salt & Stone Adventure Photography

• proud Iowa City resident since 2012

• taught at the University of Iowa from 2012-2018

• taught at Tsinghua International School in Beijing from 2018-2020 (you can read about my final days abroad at the onset of the pandemic here)

• holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Montana (‘24)

• the 2023-24 Editor in Chief of the University of Montana’s 50+-year-old literary magazine, CutBank

• a 2024 fellow of the LA Review of Books online Publication Workshop

• currently works at Prairie Lights in Iowa City, IA