Education
Bowling Green State University
Bachelor of Fine Arts — May 2026
- Creative Writing with a minor in Popular Culture
- Recipient of the Louise C. Cooper Book Award for Outstanding Senior BFA Thesis at BGSU (2012).
- Pushcart Prize Nomination (2013)
Work Experience
PopMatters
Staff Writer March 2021 – May 2024
IMPRINT Entertainment Atlanta, GA
Content Writer July 2018 – October 2018
Prairie Margins (Literary Journal) Bowling Green, OH
Poetry Editor/Web Manager/Staff Member January 2012 – June 2013
Skills
- Highly skilled in writing reviews relating to film and music; poetry, fiction, and other forms of creative writing; literary criticisms; argumentative, observational, and reflective essays; and academic and technical forms of writing.
- Highly skilled in using research methods to gather necessary information for writing analytical and argumentative content.
- Trained in selecting and preparing written text through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with the intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete product.
- Experience with supervising staff discussions for critiquing poetry submissions to rank them as accepted or rejected, proofreading and editing accepted texts for grammatical accuracy before publication, and further experience with supervising the editing and proofreading process.
- Experience with stylizing and updating organization websites with discrete entries on publication news, fundraisers, and promotional events.
- Experience with copywriting for product and event advertising.
- Experience with writing a backgrounder and compiling components of a media kit.
- Experience in writing coverage for events, including theatrical performances and concerts.
- Experience in using communication software, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet.
- Skilled in using WordPress, Grammarly, and some AI tools.
- Some experience using Adobe Lightroom for editing photography.