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 | https://lasemillafoodcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/330-Feet-by-Julia-Hettiger.pdf | View all the wonderful Water Stories completed by the 2025 Food Stories Institute cohort here: https://lasemillafoodcenter.org/water-stories/

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

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

Multimodal, Multilingual Praxis in the First Year Composition Classroom: Reflections on Promoting Social and Linguistic Justice Via Rhetorical Translation, publication, Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative | April 2026 | https://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2026/04/07/multimodal-multilingual-praxis-in-the-first-year-composition-classroom-reflections-on-promoting-social-and-linguistic-justice-via-rhetorical-translation/

Tracing Pathos in Horror Movie Advertising: A Different View of the Effectiveness of Pathos in Maintaining and Building Hard Won and Divided Audiences, presentation, 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

Telling Your University’s Story: Writing Compelling Narratives Without AI | presentation, JWAI26 | March 2026 | Online

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

Journalism/Media Relations/Political Writing

Select Marketing & Donor-Facing Communications

UTEP Magazine Winter 2024 (contributing writer, editor, budget development, and mascot/model on the cover): https://www.flipsnack.com/creativeservicesutep/utep-magazine-winter-2024/full-view.html

Contributed to the development of academic program pages for the University of Texas at El Paso: https://www.utep.edu/programs/undergraduate/?utep-home

United Way of El Paso County 2021-2022 Annual Report: https://www.unitedwayelpaso.org/2022-annual-report

Writing & Research Fellowships

Research Fellow | Tom Lea Fellowship | El Paso, Texas | January 2026-Present

• Abstract: As an accomplished artist who traversed the globe in order to capture scenes of World War II, Tom Lea humanized war and invoked spectators as witnesses, influenced by and through the use of space and place. By centering the spectator, this research aims to analyze how Tom Lea accomplishes the transfer of interpretation of meaning in his depictions of war, the emotion and violence captured in his use of temporal and spatial implications of context, place, and audience to wrestle with the question of what is lost and promoted when the U.S. government uses AI to recruit for the military, ICE, and other inherently violent occupations. Tom Lea’s work provides a window into the grim realities of war from an outside but neutral perspective, inviting audiences to witness these realities even if they do not have direct experience with war themselves, something AI-generated graphics can never accomplish.

Creative Writing Fellow, Prague Summer Program for Fiction Writers | Prague, Czechia | July 2025

• Developed novel-length horror project under the tutelage of authors Richard Katrovas, Robert Eversz, Mark Slouka, and Maya Slouka

Food Stories Institute Writing Fellow, La Semilla Food Center | Anthony, New Mexico | January 2025-April 2025

• Wrote, researched, edited, designed, and illustrated a children’s book honoring waterways in West Texas and Southern New Mexico

Writing Fellow, The Moth All College Writing Program | Remote | October 2024-November 2024

• Developed virtual storytelling project presented through The Moth’s national college writing program

Writing Fellow, Creative Revolutions | Managua, Nicaragua | July 2016

• Revised a young adult fantasy novel under the tutelage of author Leigh Shulman