Born and raised in Miami, educated at Harvard and UC Irvine, and living now in Chicago, my poems have recently appeared in Bennington Review, Boston Review, Fence, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. My chapbooks have been published by Harbor Editions, Milk and Cake Press, and Dancing Girl Press.
My two full-length manuscripts have been recognized at presses such as Sundress Publications, Tupelo Press, Ghost Peach Press, Persea Books, and more. Judge Ilya Kaminsky wrote, about my first full-length manuscript Live oak nearly on fire, that “There is an intricacy to the emotion, both watched, and lived-through, that is compelling” (read the poem he references, published in Midway Journal, here).
Editorial Assistant for Seneca Review, I’m also a poetry editor for The Dodge and a former editor for The Rise Up Review. I’ve received Grand Prize in the Summer Literary Seminars Fiction and Poetry contest and Grand Prize in the Matrix Magazine LitPOP Poetry Award, judged by Eileen Myles, as well as receiving support from Everglades National Park, Ragdale Foundation, UC Irvine, Soaring Gardens, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and more.
When I'm not writing poetry, I write horror & speculative fiction, poetry book reviews, and middle-grade nonfiction books & graphic novels. I also work as an editor of poetry, stories, books, proposals, talks, and scholarly papers.