Recent Publications & Awards
- As Long As It's Healthy, Shondaland, October 2017
- Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America, October 2017, contributor
- Pushcart Nomination 2013, "A Goldmine"
- "A Goldmine," Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, May 2013
- Grand Prize, Dogwood Literary Contest, Spring 2013
- "Consumed: On Meat, Cool, and Need," represented Northwestern University in AWP's Intro Journals Project, 2013
- "The Cats Have Very Little To Do With Why I Hate Them," In Our Words, 2012
- "At Sea: Confessions on Travel and Travel Writing," TriQuarterly, 2012
- The Personal as Political, Journal of Ordinary Thought, 2011
- "Five Stages," CAF Review, 2011
- Third Place, Union League Civic & Arts Foundation, Young Adult Competition, 2011
Readings
- You're Being Ridiculous at Steppenwolf, February 2018
- Funny Ha Ha, September 2017
- Story Club South Side, February 2017
- You're Being Ridiculous, March 2016
- Tuesday Funk, November 2015
- Chicago 20 x 2, May 2015
- Truth or Lie, April 2015
- That's All She Wrote, February 2015
- Wit Rabbit, January 2015
- You're Being Ridiculous, November 2014
- Essay Fiesta, July 2014
- Here, Chicago, June 2014
- Loose Chicks, March 2014
- Story Sessions, City Winery, February 2014
- Fillet of Solo, Lifeline Theatre, January 2014
- Story Club North Side, November 2013, Winner of the Audience Vote
- That's All She Wrote, October 2013
- Story Club South Side, September 2013
- Guts & Glory: Live Lit for the Lionhearted, Powell's Books, July 2013
- Prelude to a staged reading of Todd Bauer's play The Birdfeeder Doesn't Know, Raven Theatre, May 2013
- Uncommon Bodies - a celebration of women poets and prose writers with disabilities, Woman Made Gallery, May 2013
- Graduate Reading, The Book Cellar, December 2012
Degrees
- Northwestern University, Creative Nonfiction Writing, MFA
- Hampshire College, Literary Journalism, BA
- Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Documentary Writing, Field Study
Experience
- Instructor, StoryStudio Chicago
- Writing Tutor, The Writing Place, Northwestern University
- Publicity & Editorial Assistant, Trafalgar Square Publishing & Chicago Review Press
- Nonfiction Editor, TriQuarterly
- Intern, Neighborhood Writing Alliance
- Editorial Assistant, Chicago Home + Garden