Fiction, Poetry, & Essays

The Broken Vase, poem publication, Chrysalis | October 2025

What Were the Neighbors Thinking?, poem publication, Club Rambutan Journal | January 2025

Circles, poem, photo, and design, LoveLetters.EP | January 2025

330 Feet! Rio the Waterdrop’s Journey Through the Waterways of West Texas and Southern New Mexico, book publication, La Semilla Food Center | July 2025

We Can Change the World, essay in Elephant Journal | April 2016

Life of the Normal, short story in ForWord | First place winner | October 2015

Between the River and the Canyon, short story in ForWord | October 2015

I Used to Live in a Small Town Not Too Far From Here, short story in Creepy Catalog | National first place winner in horror writing | October 2014

The Importance of Unimportance, essay in Thought Catalog | January 2014

I Know You Killed Arthur Van Pierce, short story in ForWord | Third place winner | September 2013

Academic Papers & Presentations

Indignity Into Dignity: Thriving Beyond Trump’s Rhetorical Manipulation of Research Grants, presentation, Rhetoric Society of America | May 2026 | Portland, Oregon

Tracing Pathos in Horror Movie Advertising: A Different View of the Effectiveness of Pathos in Maintaining and Building Hard Won and Divided Audiences, Popular Culture and American Culture Annual Conference | April 2026 | Atlanta, Georgia

Refusing to Pivot: Fighting for Our Research through Conference and Conversation, presentation, Conference on College Composition and Communication | March 2026 | Cleveland, Ohio

Meaningful Writing and Machine Translation in the First-Year Composition Classroom, presentation, Pedagogy, Practice, and Philosophy Conference | February 2026 | Gainesville, Florida

Androids’ Sophistic Power in Challenging Toxic Masculinity in the Alien and Terminator Franchises, presentation, Popular Culture and American Culture Annual Conference | April 2025 | New Orleans, Louisiana

Not Like Other Girls: Tackling Harmful Tropes and Stereotypes in Middle Grade, thesis publication and presentation, Hamline University | January 2020 | Saint Paul, Minnesota