A community-driven and inspired writer with an MFA in creative writing and MA in English with focus in creative writing. Debut novel, MANMADE CONSTELLATIONS, published in August 2022 with Blackstone Publishing. Sophomore novel, SKIPPED A GENERATION, also purchased by Blackstone Publishing, with a release date set for late 2023. A forthcoming dystopian historical-fiction, mosaic anthology, DESPERATE, NC, co-written with Cadwell Turnbull, Jendayi Brooks-Flemister among several others in the works UNC Chapel Hill Press. Winner of Academy of American Poets University Prize 2020 at NCSU. Varied experience in a wide variety of writing positions at the college-level spanning First-Year Writing, Introduction to Creative Writing, Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop and Advanced Creative Nonfiction. Publications in fiction, poetry and nonfiction with poets.org, Entropy Mag, Fiction Pool and more. Co-host of popular podcast, Band Wives.