• B.A. University of Alberta
  
  
• M.A. McMaster University
  M.A. Thesis: Henry Neville's The Isle of Pines as Literary Hoax
  
  
• M.F.A. Louisiana State University
  M.F.A. Thesis: In the Temple of Off-Ramps
  
  
• Ph.D. University of Alberta
  Doctoral Dissertation: Anatomy of Pestilence: The Satiric Disgust of Plague in Early Modern London (1563-1625)
  

Editorial Experience

• Nimrod International Journal of Poetry and Prose
  Assistant Editor 2004- Present
  
• Cimarron Review
  Assistant Editor 2002-2004
  
  
• Exquisite Corpse
  Editorial Assistant 1999-2002
  
  
• New Delta Review
  Editor-in-Chief 2001-2002
  Poetry Editor 2000-2001
  Editorial Assistant 1999-2000
  

Teaching Experience

• Assistant Professor, Rogers State University
• Visiting Professor, Oklahoma State University
• Lecturer, Louisiana State University
• Lecturer, University of Alberta
• Teaching Assistant, McMaster University

Courses currently Teaching

• English 2023 Creative Writing
• English 2613 Introduction to Literature
• English 1213 Composition II
• English 1113 Composition I

Courses Taught

• Mysteries of the Writing Machine: Writing/Wrighting Fiction II, University of Tulsa
• English 2023 Creative Writing, Rogers State University
• English 2613 Introduction to Literature, Rogers State University
• English 1213 Composition II, Rogers State University
• English 1113 Composition I, Rogers State University
• English 2513: Introduction to Creative Writing, Oklahoma State University
• English 1113: Freshman Composition I, Oklahoma State University
• English 1213: Composition II: Service Learning with Habitat for Humanity, Oklahoma State University
• English 2007: Introduction to Writing Poetry, Louisiana State University
• English 2005: Introduction to Writing Fiction, Louisiana State University
• English 1002: Introduction to Writing Persuasive, Evaluative, and Other Forms of Argumentive Discourse, Louisiana State University
• English 1002: English Composition: Service Learning with the American Red Cross Disaster Services, Louisiana State University
• English 1001: Introduction to Writing in Forms of Expressive and Informative Discourse and English, Louisiana State University
• English 101: Introduction to Critical Reading and Writing and English, University of Alberta
• English 199: Essentials of Writing for Engineering Students, University of Alberta
• English 1D6: English Literature - Forms and Approaches, McMaster University

Area of Interest and Expertise

• Creative Writing (poetry and fiction)
• The relationship between literature and disease in early modern London
• Theories of disgust and the grotesque
• Medieval and the early modern social constructions of plague
• Medieval and early modern anatomy
• Rhetoric, composition, and technical writing
• Service Learning