I received my MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans in 2013. I teach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Costume Production MFA program, and I make a lot of random stuff for actors to wear.

I spent a decade working as a nightclub DJ and promoter before focusing on the far more lucrative and less dramatic field of professional theatre. Some highlights from those years include leading over 1000 people in the Time Warp while spinning at the New Orleans House of Blues and providing music for the first Boston Tattoo Convention after Massachusetts overturned its longstanding ban on practitioners of dermal art.

At various times in the past, I have also been a retail clerk, a sewing instructor, an improv comedienne, a bartender, an interior house painter, a transient nomad, a pianist, a pageant judge, an indigo dyer, and a hot mess.

Fiction:

“Tidewrack Medusa,” fiction, _Resurrection Engines_ anthology, Scott Harrison Ed., Snowbooks. 2012

"Reflected Light" (reprint), _Steampunk Magazine_ anthology, Combustion Books, 2012

"Reflected Light" (reprint), _Steampunk_ anthology, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Eds. Tachyon Publications, 2008

Creative Nonfiction, Essay, & Memoir:

_Shades of Zaida_ creative nonfiction thesis, University of New Orleans digital archive, 2013

“Until Morale Improves,” creative nonfiction, _Confessions: Fact or Fiction?_ anthology, Herta B. Feely and Marian O’Shea Wernicke, Eds., Booklocker, Inc., 1st printing (2010), CreateSpace 2nd printing (2011)

“Recollection,” creative nonfiction, _Voices of Multiple Sclerosis_ anthology, Richard Day Gore, Ed., LaChance Publishing, 2009

“ten thousand cigarettes,” creative nonfiction, _Knoxville Bound_ anthology, Jack Renfro and Judy Loest, Eds., MetroPulse Publications, 2004

Poetry:

Two poems, _Ready for Consumption_ anthology, Danielle Blasko and Amelia Cook, Eds., Lulu Publications, 2013

“what papaw said,” poem, _Imagining Heaven_ anthology, Linda Matney Ed., May 2010

Technical Writing - Costume Production & Related Topics:

_Sticks In Petticoats: Parasol Manufacture for the Modern Costumer_, Lulu Publications, 2007

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