Poems from the prairie,essays on their making,and a careful editor for yours.
I'm a poet and essayist with a Harvard ALM in Creative Writing and Literature and graduate workshop training at the University of Iowa. I edit manuscripts, teach writing one-on-one and in groups, and write clear documents for people who aren't writers.
Booking editing and tutoring projects for November and December 2026.
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Private tutoring, generative poetry workshops, and recovery writing programs.
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Poems, a novella, an essay, and a sonnet sequence written for recovery.
Read publicationsSelected work
- 60 Sonnets for Addiction RecoveryPoetry collection with companion workbooks and a Practitioner Guide, 2024
- DrawnNovella, 2023
- A Brief History of TurkeysEssay in Riding Fences, Flatiron Foothills Publications, 2023
Essays on craft
- Fourteen Lines at a Time Why the sonnet works as a container for recovery writing
- Writing the Rural Without Postcards Defamiliarizing the places we know too well
- The Researched Narrative Structure, evidence, and obligation in true crime nonfiction
Harvard ALM, Creative Writing and Literature
University of Iowa Graduate Writers' Workshop placement
Alumni Editor, INK Literary Magazine
Poetry reader, The Iowa Review