With gratitude to the faculties of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Arizona, the Area Program in Literary Prose Writing at the University of Virginia, and the Ph.D. program in English at the University of Missouri – Columbia; and with love and deep thanks to family, friends, and all the writers who’ve come before and will come after and who’re sitting with their craft today

Book

The Tilling, Seneca Review Books, selected by Wendy S. Walters & edited by Geoffrey Babbitt (also available via Asterism Books and in stock at Yellow Dog and Skylark bookshops in Columbia, MO, and Print: A Bookstore in Portland, ME)

Post-release readings: Skylark Bookshop | with Eszi Waters | Columbia, Missouri | Feb. 6, 2025 /// Hobart and William Smith Colleges | Geneva, New York | Feb. 27 /// Buffalo Street Books | with Benjamin Garcia | Ithaca, New York | Feb. 28 /// Crooked Tooth Brewing Co. | with Emilio Carrero | Tucson, Arizona | March 19 /// Virginia Festival of the Book | New Dominion Bookshop | UVA creative writing alumni reading | with H.G. Dierdorff, Chris Knapp, and Kyle Marbut | Charlottesville, Virginia | March 21

Press release, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Office of Communications

Book Notes playlist, Largehearted Boy

Conversation with Hea-Ream Lee, Essay Daily

Review, Waxwing

Review, Hippocampus Magazine

Essays

“Tidal Wave,” apt; “Blue As In,” Hippocampus Magazine; “Pardo/Ghost Hand,” Mid-American Review; “Tragic Mulatto: (Not) a Carwash Essay,” Grist; “Fucked Fable,” Fourth Genre; “The No Longer,” Seneca Review; “Apple Orchard,” fugue; “Cosmic Brownie, Zone Bar,” Essay Daily (and, hopefully, others down the years)

Conversations

“‘Affirming Life’: An Essay Daily Interview with Kiki Petrosino,” Essay Daily; “‘This New Precipitate’: A Conversation with Maddie Norris,” Essay Daily; “‘You,’ ‘I,’ and ‘We’: A Conversation with Emilio Carrero,” fugue

Honors

Notable essay, Best American Essays; AWP Intro Journals Project Award in nonfiction, Association of Writers and Writing Programs; Bill Waller Award in nonfiction, Arizona MFA program; Michael J. Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize, Fourth Genre (co-recipient); residency in nonfiction, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; Michael Collier scholarship in nonfiction, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference; Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize, Seneca Review Books