ABOUT

I am a poet and editor teaching English at New Mexico Highlands University.

I grew up in the southwest, and hopped around the northwest and the Mojave before landing in New Mexico. My interests in poetry include modernist and postmodernist writers such as Barbara Guest, Lorine Niedecker, and Erin Moure, as well as global literatures and Eastern European traditions.

My book of poems Irredenta applies a pastoral framework to the American wilderness. It is an experimental thing, written in a sequential mode, drawing upon the work of Henry Thoreau, Gertrude Stein, and Rene Char.

I spend my free time hiking and walking – always on my feet.

TEACHING

New Mexico Highlands University, 2025

University of Idaho, 2021-2025

University of Nevada Las Vegas, 2016-2021

Portland Community College, 2013-2016

EDITING

New Mexico Review, Editor 2025 – present

Witness, 2017-2019
Poetry Editor

Noemi Press, 2013-2016
Assistant Editor