About Me
What I love about writing, editing, and teaching is that they're all versions of the same problem: how do you take language, which is abstract and made up and full of holes, and make it do something real? I've been working on that problem from a lot of different angles for a long time.
Right now I’m the Senior Digital Content Editor at ISTE+ASCD, where I edit and produce content for Educational Leadership magazine. The work is editorial and operational: developing ideas, shaping language, and managing the production systems that get content out the door on time and in good shape. Before that I worked as an editor and content producer for federal agencies, including the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
My academic background is in literature and creative writing. I hold a PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Denver and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi. I spent nearly a decade teaching writing at the university level across academic, professional, and creative tracks. Some of the work I've found most meaningful has been with younger writers, from elementary through high school, at Denver School of the Arts, Writers in the Schools, and Lighthouse Writers Workshop. That work continues in small ways.
My own writing runs alongside all of this. My poetry collection, Everything We Met Changed Form and Followed the Rest, was published by Horse Less Press in 2016. My chapbook, What Kind of Howly Divine, came out from Horse Less in 2014.
