Publications
Select Writing, Awards, & Audio
Maps Are Lines We Draw, Lanternfish Press, 2018.
BMJ Medical Humanities, Original Research, “Mutant metaphors: Frankenstein in the era of COVID-19",” 2022.
The Rotation, “Why Narrative Medicine Matters,” 2022.
BMJ Medical Humanities, “To Better Address Vaccine Hesitancy, Take the Long View,” 2021.
Journal of the American Medical Society, “Winter of Fear,” Poetry and Medicine, 2021.
Salt Lake Tribune, “Planting Trees Can Help Us Lay Down Roots,” 2020.
Los Angeles Review of Books, “The Sea Is Not Anonymous,” 2019.
Brevity. “On Research, Writing, and the ‘Rambling Path,’ 2018.
Contemporary French & Francophone Studies, “Slippery Kitsch and the Aesthetics of Power,” 2017.
Anchor Magazine. “Bodies of Water,” 2017.
Los Angeles Review of Books, “Shedding the Third Tear,” 2016.
Hippocampus Magazine, “Inheritance,” 2016.
The Los Angeles Review, “Cotton Frames,” 2016.
The Crab Orchard Review, “Trapped Heat,” 2015.
Awards: Winner, Book Award, Society of American Travel Writers, 2018-2019.
Winner, University of Missouri Essay Prize, 2015. Judge: Ryan Van Meter.
Finalist, Crab Orchard Review John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize, 2014.
Audio: Co-Founder, True/False Podcast, which examines the art and craft of creative nonfiction film. Creative Director & Host, Seasons 1-3. Features filmmakers Morgan Neville, RaMell Ross, Kitty Green, Yance Ford, Emelie Mahdavian, and others.
“English Class at University of Missouri examines rhetoric through race,” KBIA, 2016.
Teaching
Narrative Medicine, Composition, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction
Columbia University, Narrative Medicine CPA, School of Professional Studies. 2022-Present
University of Utah, School of Medicine, Narrative Medicine elective.
University of Missouri, Department of English
Visiting Lecturer: Penn State University - Harrisburg, Truman State University, University of Missouri, Maryville University, William Woods University, St. Charles Community College, Columbia Art League, Elephant Rock Retreats, Rock Bridge High School, Columbia Independent School
Speaking & Press
Select Conferences, Readings, Interviews, Features
Health Humanities Consortium Conference (HHC). 2023. Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. Panelist: “Mutant Metaphors: Frankenstein in the Era of COVID-19.”
University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Project for Advancing Healthcare Stewardship, 2022. Keynote: Beyond Dualism: Stewarding Relationships of Care
Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), 2018, Panelist: The Dividing Line: Blending Research in Personal Narratives, Tampa, FL.
Nonfiction Now, 2018, Panelist: The Sound-Centered Essay. Phoenix, AZ.
Unbound Book Festival, 2018, Panelist. Columbia, MO.
Readings: Penn Book Center (PA), Left Bank Books (MO), AWP-Tampa (FL), Indigo Bridge with Dr. Jean Gardy Marius (NE), The Missouri Review (MO), Pen + Brush (NY), SubText Books (MN), Friends of the Adair County Library (MO), Sundress Academy for the Arts (TN)
Press: Featured in The Missourian, Columbia Daily Tribune; interviewed on The Classical Ideas Podcast, Speaking of the Arts, KBIA News, David Lile on KFRU, The Missouri Review
Reviews of Maps Are Lines We Draw
Professional Experience
Communications, Grant Writing, Science Writing, Technical Writing
Communications Director, Aperio Consulting Group
Editor & Writer, Huntsman Cancer Institute
Education & Outreach Director, True/False Film Fest
Other: FACE AIDS-GlobeMed, Partners In Health
Grant Writing: Acquired, renewed $400,000+ from public and private foundations: National Endowment for the Arts, Ford Foundation, Bertha Foundation, state and local councils, etc.
Education
Master of Science, Narrative Medicine, Columbia University
Master of Arts, English - Creative Nonfiction, University of Missouri
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, Truman State University
Bachelor of Arts, English, Truman State University
Fellowships & Workshops: Tin House Workshop, Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop, Transom Audio Workshop (Atlantic Public Media)