Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made the experience of living something that must be translated into pigment or music or bodily movement or poetry or prose or anything that’s dynamic and expressive—that’s what’s good for you if you’re at all serious in your aims.
Tennessee Williams, “On a Streetcar Named Success”
At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Club Sponsor: Bethany College Scriptoria Creative Writing Club
Courses Taught
Assistant Professor, Bethany College (2024–Present)
- Literature and Criticism
- Advanced Creative Writing
- Single or Dual Author: Whitman and Dickinson
- Interdisciplinary Writing Intensive: The Rhetoric of Comedy
- Interdisciplinary Writing Intensive: Writing Art
- Interdisciplinary Writing Intensive: Business Writing
- Interdisciplinary Writing Intensive: Place Writing
- Intro to Creative Writing
- Thinking and Writing About Poetry
- Thinking and Writing About Fiction
- Travel Writing
- Intro to Interdisciplinary Studies
Graduate Instructor, Texas Tech University (2019–2024)
- Intermediate Creative Writing, Poetry
- The Selected Plays of Shakespeare
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Introduction to Fiction
- Introduction to Poetry
- Advanced College Rhetoric: Writing in the Health Professions
- Advanced College Rhetoric
- Essentials of College Rhetoric
Predoctoral Instructor, The University of Washington (2017–2019)
- Beginning Verse Writing
- Composition
Teaching Fellow, The University of North Texas (2016–2017)
- Advanced College Composition
- Introduction to College Composition
