My pedagogical approach historiographically and cross-disciplinarily contextualizes writing/creative-vision, poetics and theory in order to engage students with inspired lineages and a contemporary scope for their critical and creative work. I believe that invested readers make invested writers, and that evolving within the art of writing means to grapple with previous explorations of craft, content, vision and aesthetics. Rather than emphasizing rules towards technical perfection, I guide students through their own poetic and visionary concerns, concentrating on strengthening creativity, voice and critical perspectives. I encourage students to engage multi-disciplinary experiments and practices, guiding them to encounter their creative visions as dynamic, expressive potential.

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Teaching and Research Interests

  • Poetry and Poetics

  • Memoir and Hybrid Texts

  • Trauma and Grief Writing

  • Creative Writing Workshop

  • Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

  • Queer Theory and Poetics

  • Feminisms and Transfeminisms

  • Documentary Poetics

  • South Asian Diasporic Poetry and Poetics

  • Interdisciplinary, Hybrid, and Performance Studies

  • Modernism and Postmodernism

  • Historiography of Poetic Theory and Thought

  • Critical Theory

Education

  • PhD, Creative Writing and English Literature, University of Denver, June 2018

  • MFA, Creative Writing and English Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder, May 2009

  • B.A., double major in English/Creative Writing and Dance, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006

Awards and Fellowships

  • National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, 2025

  • Teacher of the Year Award, Student Executive Council, Seattle University, 2024

  • Outstanding Advising Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Seattle University, 2024

  • MacDowell Fellow, Stanford Calderwood Fellow,  2022

  • Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, Seattle University College of Arts and Sciences, Summer 2020

  • Fulbright Scholar, 2016-2017

  • Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Denver, 2012-2015

  • Kundiman Fellow, 2010

Teaching Positions

  • Associate Professor, Seattle University, 2025-Present

  • Assistant Professor, Seattle University, 2019-2025

  • Faculty, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Denver, 2018-Present

  • Adjunct Faculty, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics,  Naropa University, 2015-2019

  • Faculty, Summer Writing Program, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University, 2016, 2018

  • Faculty, Young Writers Workshop, University of Virginia, 2015

  • Graduate Instructor, University of Denver, August 2013-2015

  • Assistant to the Director of Creative Writing, Selah Saterstrom, Autumn 2014

  • Assistant to the Director of Creative Writing, Eleni Sikelianos, Autumn 2012

  • Affiliate Faculty, Metropolitan State College of Denver, August 2010-2012

  • Adjunct Faculty, Community College of Denver, August 2010-2012

  • Graduate Instructor, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006-2009

Other Teaching Experience

  • Colorization Collective, Teaching Artist, 2022-Present

  • Belladonna* Collective School, “Rampage, Wound and Chthonic Desire: Feminism, Goddess Complexes and New Multivalent Narrative,” March 12-April 23rd, 2021

  • Lighthouse Writing in Color Retreat, Hybrid Forms Faculty, Allenspark, CO, August 2019, August 2020, August 2021

  • Grand Lake Lighthouse Writers Retreat, Poetry Faculty, Grand Lake, CO, July 2019, July 2020, July 2021

  • Divinations and Disorientations MFA Retreat, Naropa University at Shambhala Mountain Center, 2019

  • Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Faculty, Denver, 2018-Present

  • Narrative as Becoming, Founder, Bangalore, India 2016-2017

    • Founded and ran creative writing and hybrid creations workshops for queer women and tansmen. Sessions explored narrative as a mode of empowerment, subversion, testimonial and personal mythology.

  • Young Writers Workshop, University of Virginia, Poetry Faculty 2015

  • Boulder Writing Studio, Faculty, Spring 2011-2013

  • Writers in the Schools (WITS), December 2010-2012

Visiting Artist

  • RCAH Center for Poetry at Michigan State University, Fall 2021

  • Colorization Collective, Teaching Artist, 2022-Present

  • Denver School of the Arts, Guest Artist Series, Spring 2021

  • Divination and Disorientation: Practices in Chance-Encounter, Divination and Experimentation, Performance Studies Department, Naropa University, Spring 2019

  • Silent Retreat for Writing Performance at the Shambhala Mountain Center, Performance Studies Department, Naropa University, Spring 2019

  • Scripting the Self: Narrative and Performativity, Performative Studies Department, Naropa University, Fall 2018

Recent Guest Lectures

  • “Grief Ritual/A Poetics,” Generative Workshop (8 hours) and Reading, Low Residency MFA Spring Symposium” Performance and Ritual Poetics, Naropa University, March 10-12, 2024

  • “Queer Poetic Memoir,” lecture, The Poetry Collective, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, October 21, 2023

  • “The Ephemeral Artifact,” Four Queens’ Creative Writing and Divinatory Poetics Hour, April 16th, 2023

  • “Rampage, Wound and Cthonic Desires: A Mythological Complex for the Feminist Poetic Line,” Naropa University Summer Writing Program, Boulder, June 17, 2019

  • “Towards Post Post-Colonialism, A Theory of Rhizomic Intelligence and Activism,” Naropa University Summer Writing Program, Boulder, June 25, 2018

  • “Rhizomic Activism, Queer Women and Narrative in India,” University of Denver, Denver, February 22, 2018

  • “Rhizomic Activism: A Post-Post-Colonialism,” The Warhawk Reading and Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin Whitewater, December 7, 2017

  • “Beyond the Beyond: Post-Colonial Hybridities/Queer Bodies in Queer Spaces,” Christ University, Bangalore, India, June 2017

  • “Phenomenology in Modernist Poetry: How Poems Appear–Some Theories by Modernist Poets,” Christ University, Bangalore, India, June 2017

  • “Stop Making Sense: The What, Why and How of Experimental Poetry,” Christ University, Bangalore, Indian, May 2017

  • “Queer Invisibility and Performance of LBT Indian Women in the Rhizome,” South Central Asia Fulbright Conference, March 2017

  • “Invisibility as Queer Poetics,” Naropa University, Boulder, July 4, 2016

Committees

  • Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Executive Committee, Seattle University, Fall 2021-Present

  • Transatlantic Long 19th C Hiring Committee, Department of English, Seattle University, AY 2022-2023

  • College Event Committee, Seattle University, Fall 2022-Present

  • Teaching Inclusively Committee, Seattle University, Fall 2021-Present

  • Department of Performing Arts & Arts Leadership Hiring Committee (Theater Program tenure track faculty line), external reviewer, Seattle University, AY 201-202

  • Student Outreach Committee, Seattle University, Fall 2020-Present

  • Creative Writing Program Committee, Seattle University, Fall 2019-Present

  • Adjunct Partners, Naropa University, Fall 2018-2019

  • Graduate Students of the Four Faculties, University of Denver, 2013-2015

Editorial Positions

  • Foglifter, Guest Editor, Volume 2, Issue 5, Fall 2020

  • Denver Quarterly, Editorial Assistant, University of Denver, 2013-2015

  • TitMouse Magazine, Co-Founder/Editor, Denver, 2010-2012

  • Spine Road Literary Journal, Editor, Denver, 2010-2012

  • The New Press, Editorial Intern, New York City, 2009-2010

  • Subito Press, Editor, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2008