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Degrees                                              Ph.D. in English – (Anticipated, Spring 2015)
                                                                           University of Louisiana-Lafayette
                                                                           Concentration: Creative Writing

                 Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing - Poetry, 2011
                                                                           McNeese State University
                                                                           Thesis: Coming Up on the Short End (Poems)

                Master of Arts – English, 2011
                                                                           McNeese State University
                                                                           Thesis: Javier Lentini’s Invención del Otoño (Translation)

                                                            Bachelor of Arts - English, 2008
                                                                           University of Louisiana-Monroe


Awards and Honors            

Semi-Finalist, 2013 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest 
Best of the Net Nomination, “The Hard Lines of Our Bodies” (Trigger - #2, 2012) 
Best of the Net Nomination, “Rayville, LA, 1927” (Trigger - #1, 2011)
Finalist, Standing Rock Chapbook Contest, 2012
Joy Scantlebury Award, 3rd Place, McNeese State University, 2010
William J. Dorè Writing Fellowship, McNeese State University, 2009
William J. Dorè Writing Fellowship, McNeese State University, 2008
Write to Excellence Professional Development Award, McNeese State Univ., 2008  
Rhysling Award Nomination, "28 Blackbirds at the End of the World," 2008   
James Award Nomination (Sam's Dot Publishing), "Rhyme In Haiku," 2006

Poetry Readings                

Seasonal Voices Reading Series, Carpe Diem, Lafayette, LA, June 2013 
Vision/Verse 5, Central School for the Arts, Lake Charles, LA, June 2013 
The Louisiana Review Reading Series, Eunice, LA, March 2013 
Casa Azul Reading Series, Grand Coteau, LA, February 2013 
The Gaines Center and UL Creative Writing Present Reading Series, The Ernest J. Gaines Center, Dupre Library, UL-Lafayette, Jan.2013 
Vision/Verse 4, Central School for the Arts, Lake Charles, LA, June 2012 
The Porch Reading Series, Lake Charles, LA, November 2011
The Louisiana Review Reading Series, Eunice, LA, October 2011 
The Thursday Night Reading Series, Lafayette, LA, October 2011 
Vision/Verse 3, Central School for the Arts, Lake Charles, LA, June 2011 
The Porch Reading Series, Lake Charles, LA, February 2011 
Writers Guild of Acadiana, Guest Speaker, Lafayette, LA, January 2011
Bayou Writers Group, Guest Speaker, Lake Charles, LA, April 2010 
Vision/Verse 2, Central School for the Arts, Lake Charles, LA, June 2010 
Vision/Verse, Imperial Calcasieu Museum, Lake Charles, LA May 2009 
Fridays at the Center, McNeese State Write to Excellence Center, April, 2009          

Conference Presentations              

-The Louisiana Conference on Language, Literature, and Culture, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA. Paper Presented: “The Nintendo Generation and Entertainment in Fiction” March 29-31, 2012 
-The 3rd Annual Louisiana Studies Conference, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA. Poetry Presented: “Flood (poems).” October 2011 
-Ancestral Memories: A Dialogue Symposium, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA. Paper Presented: “Chances for Freedom: Mary Prince’s Acts of Rebellion.” June 2011 
-Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS. Presented: “Flood (poems).” June 2010                                           
-The Louisiana Conference on Language, Literature, and Culture, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA. Poetry Presented: “'27: A Creative Look at Desire in the 1927 Mississippi River Flood (poems).” March 5-7, 2009 
-BabelCon, Panelist, “An Introduction to Genre Poetry”, Baton Rouge, LA, July 2008
-Readercon, Presenter,The 30th Annual Rhysling Awards for Poetry”, Burlington, MA, July 2008




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