Education
The University of Nebraska Omaha
BA: English (Creative Nonfiction)
BFA: Creative Writing (Poetry)
Graduated December 2025.
Awards
College of Fine Arts & Media Outstanding Student Award 2026
Publications
Books/Anthologies
“My Therapist Says ‘We Always Knew You Had Big Emotions’” The World We See: Women Poets on Neurodivergence (forthcoming)
Poetry
“One Afternoon” Blue Unicorn (forthcoming)
“It’s Always Happening” 13th Floor Magazine, 2026 (forthcoming)
“Land-Locked” Passages North, Issue 47, 2026
“Ice Cream Truck” Reading Into Culture, 2026
“Dorsal Blues” Reverie, Issue V, 2026
“Warning Signs” Phylum Press, Issue 004: Corkscrew Willow Edition, 2026
“To The Backwoods, No Matter What” Phylum Press, Issue 004: Corkscrew Willow Edition, 2026
“For You, Out There” Call Me [Superstitious], 2025
“Snow Song” Call Me [Superstitious], 2025
“Prairie Witch” The Goodlife Review, Issue 21, 2025
“The Hangover That Keeps On Hanging Over” Mag Pie Zine, The Luck Issue, 2025
“The Bird” Mag Pie Zine, The Luck Issue, 2025
“A Legend Long Told” Mag Pie Zine, The Luck Issue, 2025
“Embers of An Arctic Fire” The Oakland Arts Review, 2025
“Zero Our Goal of Being” The Oakland Arts Review, 2025
“All The Fire Hydrants Are The Color of Public School Hotdogs: To Girls That Read John Keats and Connect” Folio, Issue 48
“Next Stop: Sopporo” Folio, Issue 48, 2025
“The Sky Is A Gun That Shoots Out Stars” Folio, Issue 47, 2024
“Pearsall” Folio, Issue 47, 2024
“Garbage City” The Rubbertop Review, Issue 15, 2024
“Near Winnsboro” The Oakland Arts Review, 2024
“Mt. Pleasant” Collision, 2024
“We Could Have Such A Damned Good Time Together” 13th Floor Magazine, 2023
Creative Nonfiction
Fiction
“Espantapájaros” 13th Floor Magazine, 2026 (forthcoming)
Photography
“I Want To Be Her” 13th Floor Magazine, 2024
“8” 13th Floor Magazine, 2026 (forthcoming)
Readings & Talks Given
Undercurrents At the Doc, April 2026, Trudy’s Artist Studios, Omaha, NE
Sonnetathon, February 2026, Rally Coffee House, Omaha, NE
Supporting Local Artists Reading, November 2025, Rally Coffee House, Omaha, NE
New Voices Reading Series, December 2025, Omaha, NE
Family Dinner Reading Series, August 2025, Joslyn Castle Carriage House, Omaha, NE
Obsessions: A Poetry Workshop, July 2025, Green Line Coffee, Omaha, NE
Vocal Fry Spoken Word Open Mic, July 2025, Local Art Plug, Omaha, NE
Nebraska Poetry Society Poetry Pause , The Art Walk at Joslyn Castle, June 2025, Carriage House, Omaha NE
Garbage City Poems Launch Party, May 2025, Pageturner’s Lounge, Omaha, NE
Toddfather & Friends, May 2025, Pageturner’s Lounge, Omaha, NE
Research & Creative Activity Fair, April 2025, University of Nebraska Omaha
Writer’s Workshop Poetry Craft Talk, March 2025, University of Nebraska Omaha
13th Floor Magazine Reading Series, February 2025, Green Line Coffee, Omaha, NE
Writer’s Workshop Poetry Craft Talk, May 2024, University of Nebraska Omaha
Thirty West Tales Winter Solstice Special, December 2024, via Zoom
13th Floor Magzine Reading Series, October 2024, Blue Line Coffee, Omaha, NE
Workshops
University of Nebraska Omaha Writers’ Workshop Poetry Studio Sequence January 2022 to December 2025
Writers Workshop: Ethics and Organization for Writing Memoir, Omaha Public Library, June 8th, 2025
Professional Memberships
Associated Writers/Writing Programs (AWP)
Editorial Experience
Reader for the Nebraska Poetry Society’s 2025 Poetry Contest.
Poetry staff for 13th Floor Magazine, Spring 2025.
Reader for the Ex Ophidia Press 2024 & 2025 Richard Gabriel RummondsPoetry Contest.
Student Editor on Issue 4 of The Linden Review, 2023.
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