Across genres, my work focuses on forms of history-telling as they intersect with the ways we create narrative identities and social imaginaries through art. In my creative writing, I explore these themes through personal investigation, hybrid genres involving poetry, prose, photography, erasures, found material, and place-based histories. In my scholarly projects, I critically investigate writers interested in similar themes of genre, literary forms, social imaginations, and identity, and I study how editing and publishing histories and networks inform the same.
selected poetrylike a field: The Quiet Room
Moist Poetry Journal: Dear words I do not yet have, Guesthouse: Skipping Steps Moist Poetry Journal: My Grandmother Describes Her Father The Shore: Paradise 3Elements Review: Poem after Campbell McGrath's 'Night Travelers' Cumberland River Review: Cardinals Still: The Journal: Settling, Appalachia, and Listening Whale Road Review: Hand-Stitched Stirring: A Literary Collection: Hold Out as Long as You Can Oxidant|Engine: Three Poems after Sappho Valparaiso Poetry Review: Three Months after the Fire |
selected proseAnnulet: 'Daddy' and Anacrusis: On Langston Hughes' Dream Boogie'
Whale Road Review: Dear Grandfather, Still: The Journal: Higgins Lake The Rumpus: The Last Book I Loved: Toni Morrison's Home The Rumpus: The Last Poems I Loved: John Berryman's Dream Songs #265 and #279 The Rumpus: The Last Book I Loved: The Delicacy and Strength of Lace by Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright |
selected anthologized work
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Mountains Piled upon Mountains features nearly fifty writers from across Appalachia sharing their place-based fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry. Moving beyond the tradition of transcendental nature writing, much of the work collected here engages current issues facing the region and the planet (such as hydraulic fracturing, water contamination, mountaintop removal, and deforestation), and provides readers with insights on the human-nature relationship in an era of rapid environmental change.
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literary scholarship
Forthcoming projects include a chapter on Letterkenny's representations of Indigenous Feminisms and survivance as well as an essay on anthology editing practices in the early twenty-first century.
My in-progress scholarly manuscripts are focused on, respectively, modes of self-reflective whiteness in American poems and poetic forms of non-linear history-telling in contemporary poetry.
My in-progress scholarly manuscripts are focused on, respectively, modes of self-reflective whiteness in American poems and poetic forms of non-linear history-telling in contemporary poetry.