Publications
"Wait For Me," Down and Out Books, co-authored with Daniel C. Bartlett, forthcoming 2026
"Consequences" Yellow Mama #112, forthcoming in October 2025
"Nothing Changes" The Yard Crime Blog, July 2025
"There Will Come Chaos" Hellbound Anthology, February 2025
"It's the Least I Can Do" Thrill Ride Magazine, Winter Issue, 2023
"Review of Outcry Witness" Review of Texas Books, Spring 2022
Courses Taught
Dual Credit/HEH/ACP English 1301 and English 2322
Literature 2326
Literature 2331
Distance Education - Freshman and Sophomore English
English 1301
English 1302
DWRT 0371/ENGL 0301
Professional Experience
Blackboard Workshops, Beaumont, TX 2009-2015
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers (TACWT) Conference, Houston, TX. September 2007 (Chair of session and reading of original work, "Devil Woman")
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers (TACWT) Conference, San Angelo, TX. September 2006 (Chair of session for fiction and poetry reading)
Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Conference, Oxford, MS. July 2004 (Presented Hurricanes, Swampland and Gumbo Mud: Louisiana's Place in Southern Literature, with a focus on how place creates identity in Kate Chopin's The Awakening)
Dallas Goethe Center, January 2003 (Poetry/Fiction reading of translated German texts)
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers (TACWT) Conference, Beaumont, TX. September 2002 (Participant in panel discussion on creative writing pedagogy, with a focus on pedagogical approaches in playwriting)
Dallas Goethe Center, September 2002 (Read translation of German poetic and scholarly works)
Computers and Writing Conference. Illinois State University, Normal, Ill. May 2002 (Participant in panel discussion on teaching, writing, and publishing with new media technologies, with a focus on employing visual and performance elements)
SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 2002 (Participant in panel discussion on humor in literature, with a focus on how humor is used to underscore the serious situations in Sam Shepard's True West)
Performed, directed, or choreographed in over 25 university, college, and community theatre productions since 1991.
Service
First Year Curriculum Committee - Fall 2018-present
Hiring Committee, Instructor position - Summer 2018
PNG Reflections Literary Contest Judge - Fall 2015
Texas Academy of Leadership Mentor - Fall 2012-Spring 2013
Lead Instructor of ACP/HEH British Literature - Spring 2011
Lead Instructor of ACP/HEH English 1301 - Summer 2010
Assessment Committee for General Studies - Spring 2010
ACES Development Committee of Comp 1302 - Fall 2009
Arts and Sciences Council Committee - 2008-2011
Academic Advising Committee - Spring 2008
Assessment Committee for SACS 2007-present
CLEP grading committee - 20017-present
Awards and Honors
ACUE Certification for Effective Teaching Practices - Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Cohort
TLE Best Practices for Online Learning Experiences - Spring 2018
Awarded a teaching grant for innovative teaching - Fall 2008