Q: What is your area of specialty?
A: I am mostly a poet who pushes her work toward the intersection of writing and visual art. However, I work a lot with feminist and LGBTQIA+ themes and gothic monsters in text and film.
Q: What was the title of your master’s thesis or dissertation?
A: So fun story, I wanted to call it Scatter; or, James Joyce Always Makes me Think of Boobs, but my dissertation director said that by having “boobs” in the title, I could hurt my chances of getting a job. So we changed it to Scatter; or, A Series of Minor Inconveniences.
A: I have work forthcoming in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. IX: Virginia published by the Texas Review Press, and my collection, Fracture; or, James Joyce Always Makes me Think of Boobs is under contract with Clare Songbirds Publishing House.
Q: What and where was your previous position?
A: I was an Associate Professor and the Director of the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Arkansas Monticello.
Q: What is your favorite assignment to assign?
A: What a groovy question. I know I’m going to immediately think of something else, but the first thing that pops to mind is the personal narrative.
Q: What was the last book you read?
A: I just reread Straight Man by Richard Russo because it always makes me laugh.
Q: What do you enjoy most about CCU so far?
A: How kind everyone is to each other. It’s a really awesome work environment.