Education

• Long Island University, Southampton Campus

  MFA

  English and Creative Writing
  
  

• University of Wisconsin-Platteville

  BA

  English
  
  

• Outstanding Alumni Award

  
  This distinguished award is given by the school of Liberal Arts and Education.
  

• University of Wisconsin-Platteville

  Instructor

  
  Teach Magazine Writing and Editing, Freshman Composition 1230 (Comp II), Minority Women Writers, and Introduction to Women's Studies
  

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  English Language and Literature/Letters
  
  

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Graduate TA and Student

  
  English graduate student specializing in fiction writing, creative nonfiction writing, journalism, American working class literature, women’s literature, and African-American literature. Instructor of record for various courses, including fiction writing, 20th century literature, introduction to literature, and rhetoric and composition.