SELECT PUBLICATIONS
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Nonfiction:

• “The Great American Eclipse” (literary journalism). Salmagundi Magazine, October 2020​
• "Liberty and the Marketplace" (literary journalism). Harper's Magazine, July 2020
• "Playing in the Intersection" (personal essay) The Smart Set, April 2020
• “The Terrarium” (literary journalism). Guernica Magazine, March 2020
• “Dancing at the Bay of Sharks” (personal essay). Delmarva Review, November 2019
• “Running with René” (personal essay). Aethlon: Journal of Sports Literature, Spring 2018
• "This Concrete Life" (podcast episode). Prod. Willow Belden. Out There, April 2017
• "Paddling the Sewershed" (nature/ travel). The Big Roundtable, July 2016
• "Riding the Local" (memoir/ travel). Tales to Go, Traveler's Tales, February 2015
• “Exploring the Land of Cook” (memoir/ travel). Tampa Review, Winter 2014
• “Clinging to a Tree on Christmas” (memoir/ travel). The Common, August 2013
• “Fishing the Flats” (memoir/ travel). Gray’s Sporting Journal, February 2010
• “Tapping a Flower” (travel/ nature). Crab Orchard Review, Spring 2006
• “Postcards” (personal essay/ nature). Fourth River, Spring 2006

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Anthologies (guest editor):

• In the Between: An Anthology of Short Stories. Editor. Persea Books, 2022
• America Street [revised]: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories. Co-Editor. Persea Books, 2019 

Peer-Reviewed Papers: 

• "Student-Led Assessment: A Small Study on Classroom Rubric Development and Peer Grading Practices." Journal of Response to Writing,      5.3. Spring 2020
• “Teaching with Dave Chappelle: Exploring Critical Understandings of Culture through Comedy.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, 16.2. Duke University Press. 2016 

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Select Conference Presentations: 

• Paper Presentation. “Genre’s Hidden Role: (Mis)education within three disinformation communities.” American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Conference, November 2019
• Paper Presentation. "Genre and Social Action: Using 'Writing about Writing' to develop a critical understanding of discipline and power." Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Conference, January 2019
• Paper Presentation. "Alternative Science: Genre's hidden role." Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Conference, January 2019
• Paper Presentation. "Peer-Led Assessment in the Composition Classroom." The National Council for the Teaching of English (NCTE) Annual Conference. November 2017
• Paper Presentation. “Teaching with Dave Chappelle: Exploring critical understandings of culture through comedy.” Ethnography and Education Research Forum. University of Pennsylvania. March 2014
• Paper Presentation. “Investment and Agency in the Classroom: A three-school study of urban classroom publishing projects.” The National Council for the Teaching of English (NCTE) Annual Conference. November 2013

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT: 
Accelerated Reading and Composition (CW R1A)
Composition I: Art in the City, Learning Community (ENG 110)
Composition II: Writing in the Disciplines (ENG 201)
Intro to Literature: Narrative Nonfiction (LIT 211D)
Intro to Literature: Contemporary American Fiction (LIT 211C)
Introduction to Genre Studies (ENG 212)
Introduction to Creative Writing (ENG 223)
Advanced Seminar: Creative Nonfiction (ENG 311)
Advanced Seminar: Travel Writing (ENG 326C)
Introduction to Cultural Studies (LIT 309)

GRADUATE SEMINARS TAUGHT: 
Teaching of Writing: Nonfiction (A&HE 4151)
Teaching of Writing: Across the Disciplines (A&HE 4156)
Teaching of Writing: Fiction & Personal Narrative (A&HE 4157)
Narrative and Story: Writing from Literature (A&HE 4561)
Narrative Theory: Fictive and Literary Anthropology (A&HE 6152)
Teaching Writing in the ELL Classroom (A&HE 6450)

Literary Agent: Carrie Pestritto, LDLA, New York, N.Y.  [email protected]
Work Contact: [email protected]