residencies & fellowships
2026-2027 — Research Artist Residency, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
Research Artist in residence.
August-September 2026 — Artist Residency, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Santa Cruz, CA
Poet in residence.
June 2026 — Scholarship Recipient, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, Burlington, VT
Workshop participant.
February 2026 — Alumni in Residence, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA
Returning artist in residence for research on botanical taxonomy, natural history, and environmental poetics.
May 2025 — Writer in Residence, Art Omi, Hudson, NY
Writer in residence alongside an international cohort of playwrights, fiction and nonfiction authors.
September 2024 — Artist in Residence, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA
Botanical research residency focused on the history of taxonomy, natural history, and environmental poetics.
June 2024 — Writer in Residence, The Hemlock House, Edgemont, NC
Poetry residency in the Blue Ridge Mountains focused on ecological writing and manuscript development.
poetry readings
May 5th, 2026 — Reader, Calyx Press, Issue Vol 35.3, Virtual
Read the issue’s prize-winning poem, Ars Poetica.
April 17–19 2026 — Panelist and Featured Reader, Unbound Book Festival, Columbia, MO
Invited panelist speaking on bees in literature.
December 7 2026 — Featured Reader, Juniper Bends Reading Series, Asheville, NC
Local reading series.
November 2025 — Featured Reader, Phoenix Reading Series at High Point University, High Point, NC
Invited guest at university reading series.
September 19–20, 2025 — Featured Reader, Punch Bucket Literary Festival, Asheville, NC
Featured reader at Asheville's literary festival.
August 29, 2025 — Featured Reader, Brooklyn Poets, NY, NY
Featured reader.
April 2025 — Finalist Reading, Audre Lorde Award in Poetry, The Publishing Triangle, NY, NY
Featured reading from Bees as a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry in New York City.
March 2024 — Reading with Alyse Bensel, Punch Bucket Reading Series, Asheville, NC
Featured reader.
July 2023 — Featured Reader, Poets at Pace Reading Series at Pace University, NY, NY
Featured as an emerging writer.
June 2023 — Reader, Perspective Poetry Poetry, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Reading hosted at the Asheville Art Museum.
invited lectures + community engagement
June 2025 - Present: Alumni Panelist, Art Omi, Hudson, NY
Recurring participation on a juried panel to evaluate applications for the upcoming international Writers’ Residency.
June 2025 - Present: Alumni Panelist, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA
Recurring participation on a juried panel to evaluate applications for the upcoming interdisciplinary Artists’ Residency.
February 2026 — Visiting Lecture at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Visiting Public Humanities practitioner in JHU’s Public Writing Class, leading a discussion of community poetry and literary witness during times of collective crisis.
April 2025 — Visiting Lecture at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Visiting Public Humanities practitioner in JHU’s Public Writing Class, leading a discussion of community poetry and literary witness during times of collective crisis.
September 2022 — Conference Presentation, Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Binghamton University
Presented research on public humanities, erasure poetics, and the experimental afterlives of early modern texts.
June 6–8, 2022 — Conference Presentation, American Boccaccio Association, University of Padua, Italy
Presented scholarship related to The Unprecedented Project and contemporary engagements with The Decameron.
May 2022 — Invited Lecture, Public Humanities MA Orientation, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Delivered "Public Poetry and/as Public Humanities," exploring participatory literary practice and public-facing scholarship.
April 2022 — Visiting Lecture, Brown University, Providence, MA
Presented Erasure Poetry as Witness: The Unprecedented Project.
April 2022 — Visiting Lecture, Pace University, NY, NY
Presented Erasure Poetry as Witness: The Unprecedented Project.
April 2022 — Visiting Lecture,Florida State University, Jacksonville, FL
Presented Erasure Poetry as Witness: The Unprecedented Project.
January 2022 — Co-Curator, "Re-Memory and Viral Poetry in the Pandemic"
Led erasure poetry workshop and co-curated a visual poetry exhibition, Contagion & Culture, with Maggie Fritz-Morkin at Wilson Library, featuring student works generated through The Unprecedented Project.
September 2021 — Visiting Lecture, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Presented Erasure Poetry as Witness: The Unprecedented Project for English MA Capstone class.
September 2021 — Visiting Lecture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Presented Erasure Poetry as Witness: The Unprecedented Project for Italian Studies faculty and students.
April 2021 — High School Classroom Visit, Kings Park High School, NY
Presented The Unprecedented Project and erasure poetry workshop for high school English class.
April 2021 — High School Classroom Visit, Prince William High School, VA
Presented The Unprecedented Project and erasure poetry workshop for high school English class.