POEMS​

• Bennington Review, Object Relations (forthcoming)
• Thin Noon: "I have an Otherache" (forthcoming)
• New Delta Review: excerpts from “quotidian” (winter 2017)
• Horsethief: to my cervix (winter 2017)
• Colorado Review: The World Thunderstruck (winter 2017)
• Whiskey Island: lesson, blowjob (winter 2017)
• BOAAT: excerpts from “quotidian” (fall 2016)
• Salamander: virginity (spring/summer 2016)
• Bat City Review: road head (spring 2016)
• The Seattle Review: ledge (winter 2015)
• The Collagist: virginity (fall 2015)
• Inter|rupture: lesson (fall 2015)
• DIAGRAM: grand sentimental confession (fall 2015)
• Prelude Magazine: Self Portrait as Lady Macbeth (Shrill), Self Portrait as Ophelia (Alive) (summer 2015)
• The Journal: three blowjob sonnets (winter 2014)
• The Potomac Review: Confessional and The part for the whole (winter 2014)

ESSAYS

• Powerlifter: In a culture that prizes female beauty over all else, telling women that they will be ugly, freakish, and/or undesirable if they look too athletic is a highly effective, and entirely legal, way to keep them out of the weight room and on the elliptical.
• All Happy Couples are Alike: "I'm sorry," he said. "We would've had beautiful children."
• The Works and Days of Elena Shvarts: Though Shvarts still stands in my mind on a pedestal hewn with the word POET—not PERSON, not WOMAN, not SOMEONE I COULD HAVE MET AT A COCKTAIL PARTY—I’m generally pleased with my progress.
• Start of Darkness: In the summer of 2010, I traveled to Russia to volunteer at the Kitezh-Orion Children’s Community. Three weeks after arriving, I lost half of the vision in my left eye. 

INTERVIEWS

As a contributor, and now editor, for the Rumpus interviews section, I have interviewed a number of writers, including Mary Karr, Robyn Schiff, Terese Svoboda, and Amy Fusselman. You can find them all here. 

I have also been the subject of a few interviews, listed below: 

• Interview with Joseph Dobrian, "Interesting People"
• Interview with The Collagist 
• Interview with New Delta Reivew

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CV SECTION I: EMPLOYMENT HISTORY & AWARDS

EDUCATION

2016   MFA (Poetry), University of Iowa, Iowa Writers’ Workshop

2012   BA in Russian History and Literature, Harvard University, Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude

Senior Honors Thesis: “Fleeing the Poetic Convent: Elena Shvarts’s ‘Works and Days’ and Problems of Female Authorship in the Late-Soviet Literary Underground”

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2016-2017         University of California Santa Cruz, College 9 Core Instructor

                            Class sizes: 24 (Fall 2016), 24 (Fall 2016)

2015-2016          University of Iowa, Instructor of Poetry Writing

                            Class sizes: 13 (Fall 2015) and 17 (Spring 2016)

2014-2015          University of Iowa, Instructor of Literature

     Class sizes: 20 (Fall 2014), 23 (Spring 2015), and 21 (Spring 2015)

OTHER POSITIONS

2016-present    Tutor at UCSC’s Westside Writing Center

2016-present    Essay Consultant for LaMeire College Consulting and Brittany Maschal Consulting

2016-present    The Rumpus, Deputy Interviews Editor

2014-present    The Morning News, Contributing Editor and Art Editor

2015-2016         SparkNotes, Contributing Writer to the SparkLife blog

2012-2014         Aram Fox, Inc., Literary Scout

2010-2012         Harvard University, Research Assistant for Kevin Birmingham’s national bestseller,                                           A Most Dangerous Book 

HONORS AND AWARDS                                                                                                  

2016   Awarded the post-graduate Pflughaupt Prize on the strength of my poetry manuscript

2016   Selected from a competitive pool of Iowa poets to attend the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference on the                Jack Leggett Scholarship

2015   Recipient of a Teaching-Writing Fellowship, in recognition of demonstrated excellence in poetry writing

2012    Awarded the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize, given to the best senior theses across majors, and the                 Oliver-Dabney Senior Prize for a senior thesis of high distinction within my major

2011    Harvard College Research Project Grant for thesis research in St. Petersburg, Russia

CV SECTION II: OTHER

BOOKS

Forthcoming book: A Failed Performance: Selected Plays of Daniil Kharms. Plays Inverse. Winter 2018. Translating with C. Dylan Bassett.

READINGS

2016    Pioneer Book, Provo, UT

2016    Mission Creek Festival Lit Crawl, Iowa City, IA

2015    Anthology Reading Series, Iowa City, IA

2014    Quiet Lightning, San Francisco, CA

2014    MFA Mixer, San Francisco, CA

LANGUAGES

French (5 years)

Russian (4 years, intensive)

Latin (3 years)

Ancient Greek (2 years)

SKILLS

Extensive experience with social media (Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram), Microsoft Office, Pages, Wordpress, Submittable, Google Drive, Dropbox, copy editing, fact-checking, archival and internet research, and office administration. Clear and frequent communicator. Very prompt with email.

PERSONAL

Vegetarian, loves dogs and Twitter, runs marathons, lifts weights, listens to a lot of podcasts. Favorite TV shows include Buffy, Bojack, The Office, and Twin Peaks.

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