As of last Friday, I officially wrapped up my undergrad at @depauluniversity.bsky.social! Feeling endlessly grateful to the WRD faculty and my family for their support. So excited to close this chapter at last. 😭🙂

The proceedings from the 15th GW Ethics in Publishing Conference are live! My presentation was part of the Equity and Inclusion in Publishing session and explored ideas around hybrid publishing and its role in shaping access and representation.

🎥 Full Presentation: youtu.be/LVjc382Az_E?...

I loved Goosebumps as a kid. It was my entry into horror...the way Coraline is for kids now. I had all the books, many of the VHS, and I even had a GB decked out pog set. But my most prized GB merch was my journal. A journal that only held one entry, "Dear God, I wish I was Goku so I could fly.”

Excited to share I’ll be presenting at GWU’s Ethics in Publishing Conference this October. My talk, “The Rhetoric of Hybrid Publishing,” builds on my undergraduate research grant at DePaul, exploring how hybrid publishing reshapes legitimacy, authorship & authority. Full schedule: lnkd.in/gW-pKjg2

Lerner is easily my favorite contemporary writer, and I had a blast investigating The Polish Rider. Through the lens of Berger and Bilmes, we can begin to understand how narrative reflects and actively shapes memory.

Housing is a human right—not a privilege. As 771K+ people were unhoused in the U.S. in 2024, we need systemic reform over punitive approaches.

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Now Recruiting Participants for a Research Study on Hybrid Publishing. See poster below for more details.

If you’re interested in contributing to shaping the narrative around hybrid publishing, please send me a message or email me at [email protected].

In the face of mounting political aggression against the arts, education, and free expression, we must speak plainly: #publishing is not neutral.

When the state demands conformity, the #book becomes a site of liberation.

The cult-classic romantic comedy, Chasing Amy, is neither romantic nor comedic. It’s a cautionary tale of arrested development disguised as a story of sexual awakening.

Check out my review on Substack.

Ebb & Flow is out now!

Available for purchase on Amazon! If you grab a copy, please show some love and leave a review—they matter more than you know! a.co/d/duUgv5X

Explore the origins, evolution, and cultural impact of Crowd Control, an open mic event in Dallas, Texas. This analysis delves into themes of inclusivity, resistance to hegemonic structures, and the reimagining of urban spaces.

Ebb & Flow drops 4/1! Originally published in 2017, the first edition had only 100 signed copies and limited online presence. I’m re-releasing it with a revised layout and over a dozen new poems. This work shaped my growth as a writer and connected me with amazing people. Excited to share it again!

With closing arguments in the Energy Transfer defamation case against Greenpeace set to begin today, it seemed like the perfect time to revisit the rights claims made by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, and the time I attended a DAPL protest in downtown Dallas.

Until my trip to Greece in 2023, I had never been outside the country. For years, I dreamed of traveling abroad, eager to experience the riches I imagined lay waiting in foreign cultures. This trip changed everything for me. Read all about it on Substack.