★ I am from Estill, South Carolina and live in Sunnyside, Queens.
 

★ I am an associate editor of composition readers and literature anthologies at W. W. Norton.
 

★ I am a first-year MFA candidate in poetry at the Brooklyn Writers Foundry at St. Joseph's University.

 

★ I have been taught by Alicia Mountain, Shira Erlichman, Nikky Finney, Sam Amadon, and Mamie Morgan.
 

★ I am a poetry reader for Epiphany.
 

★ I am a review editor for Southern Review of Books. ​​

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★ I am married to Robby Meese.

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