Education

• M.F.A. (Poetry), The University of Arizona
• M.F.A. (Nonfiction), University of Iowa

Interests

• African Literature
• African American Literature
• Critical Pedagogy
• Contemporary Art Issues
• Creative Nonfiction
• Cultural Studies
• Feminisms
• Genocide Literature and Theory
• Journalism
• Justice Studies
• Neocolonialism
• Poetics
• Photography
• World Literature

Selected Publications

"A Short History of Our Flesh and Blood." Southern Indiana Review 19.1 (Spring 2012).

"Behind the Place of Nothingness." Spoon River Poetry Review 36.1 (Winter/Spring 2011).

"Becoming the Poem." In Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook, ed. Joshua Marie Wilkinson. University of Iowa Press, 2010.

The Age of Virtual Reproduction. Ithaca, NY: Essay Press, 2009.

Benjamin’s Spectacles: Poems. Kore Press, 2007. Selected by Sonia Sanchez as Kore Press’s 2007 First Book Award Winner for Poetry.