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EDUCATION

• PhD Candidate in English (2025-Current)

  • Southern Mississippi University​, Hattiesburg, MS

  • Dissertation Title: Gallow

• MFA in Creative Writing: Fiction (2025)

  • Boise State University, Boise, ID

  • Thesis Title: The Mermaid Game

• ​BFA in Theatre Studies (2018)

  • Emerson College, Boston, MA

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TEACHING

• Boise State University

  • Fiction Instructor (2022-2024)

    • Boise State University

      • Designed and taught fiction workshops at both the introductory and intermediate level.

      • Followed a dialogic pedagogy with a strong emphasis on the writing workshop as time for experiment and play. Reading lists were constructed anew each semester, focusing on recent publications, speculative fiction, and authors on the fringes of the Western canon.

  • Graduate Assistant Educator (2023)

    • Boise State University

    • Due to success in the classroom, selected in second year to spearhead a new graduate position training incoming instructors. Courses focused on pedagogical methods, classroom mediation, and exercises for fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

• The Cabin 

  • Workshop Instructor (2022-Current)

    • Taught several horror and speculative writing workshops at Boise’s local writing non-profit.

    • While workshops varied between generative and editorial, all emphasized the storytelling elements that exist in both literary and genre fiction.
       

PROFESSIONAL​

• The Idaho Review

  • Staff Reader (2022-2023) and Associate Editor (2024-2025)

    • Started on as staff reader in 2022, reading incoming manuscripts and copyediting several issues.

    • Promoted to associate editor in 2024. In addition to the above, responsibilities include managing the graduate staff; soliciting writers; social media efforts; and day-to-day maintenance of the magazine

    • Spearheaded a series of interviews with past contributors, promoting their upcoming publications and strengthening their ties to the Idaho Review.

• American Literature Association - Graduate Student Organization

  • Vice President (2025-Current​)

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PUBLICATIONS

Fiction

•  “(the sound of children screaming has been removed)” – The Florida Review

• “Witch Sister” – hex literary

• “If You Stay Too Long It Will Kill You” – Saranac Review

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Non-Fiction

• “At the Bar” – Into the Void

  • Nominated for a Best of the Net

• “Last Call” – Creative Nonfiction

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Poetry

• “Let’s Spend the Night Together” – White Wall Review

• “amen, amen, amen” – White Wall Review

• “evolutionary memory” – White Wall Review

• “exit one: departures” – Right Hand Pointing

• “can we rot?” – Right Hand Pointing

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Academic

• “Hemingway and Film” – The Hemingway Review (forthcoming)
   

Interviews

• An Interview with Kristen Arnett - The Idaho Review

• An Interview with Silvia Park - The Idaho Review

• An Interview with Joe Wilkins - The Idaho Review

• An Interview with Whitney Collins - The Idaho Review

• An Interview with Morgan Talty - The Idaho Review

• An Interview with Gina Chung - The Idaho Review

• An Interview with Elizabeth Gonzalez James - The Idaho Review​

  • Reprinted on BookBrowse.com​

• An Interview with Dana Winsmith - The Idaho Review

 

FILM AND TELEVISION PROJECTS

• “Pretend I’m Someone You Care About” (forthcoming 2026)

  • Selected for production through the Narrative Television Initiative

• ​“The Punch Line with Kira Compton” (2016-2018)

  • Staff writer (and host) for a late-night talk show and satirical news television program. Modeled after the Daily Show and broadcast on EIV, The Punch Line investigated various issues, including local financial discrepancies, student mental health crises, and buried cases of sexual misconduct.
     

THEATER PRODUCTIONS

• “Mitch McConnell is Dead!” (2021)

  • Self-produced virtually, raising over $1600 for the Fair Fight Initiative

• “The Phone Play” (2018)

  • World Premiere at the Hudson One Act Festival 

 

CONTESTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• 2024 Sun Valley Writer’s Conference Fellow

• 2024 Hemingway Society Hinkle Scholar

• 2024 Glenn Balch Award – First Place

  • Short Story: “The Last Living Grandmaster”

  • Judged by Corinna Vallianatos

• 2023 Glenn Balch Award – First Place

  • Short Story: “Old Texas Wives’ Tale”

  • Judged by Gothataone Moeng

• ​2021 Postgraduate Writers’ Conference

• ​2018 CRAFT Dialogue Contest – Finalist

• • Short Story: “You Break Your Teeth on Harlem Avenue”

• 2018 Glimmer Train Family Matters Contest – Honorable Mention

  • Short Story: “You Break Your Teeth on Harlem Avenue”

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS

• 2025 International Fitzgerald Conference (forthcoming)

  • Presentation: “Adapting The Great Gatsby for the Stage”

  • Recipient of the Kuehl Fellowship

• 2025 American Literature Association

  • Presentation: ​"Defending the Trainwrecks" on the Revisiting Hemingway and Faulkner panel

• 2024 International Hemingway Conference

  • ​Presentation: “An Angry Sound Against Injustice: Martha Gellhorn’s Novels"

  • Recipient of the Hemingway Society’s Hinkle Scholar award

• 2024 Hemingway Seminar Graduate Instructor and Discussion Leader

  • Discussion Topic: To Have and Have Not

• 2023 Hemingway Seminar Graduate Instructor and Discussion Leader

  • Discussion Topic: Fathers and Sons and Indian Camp

 

LITERARY SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

• Founding member of Boise State’s Translation Society (2023-2025)

• Member of The Hemingway Society (2023-Current)

• Member of The Fitzgerald Society (2024-Current)

• Member of Biographer’s International Organization (2024-Current)
   

OTHER

• Judge for the Alexa Rose Grant: Fiction (2023)

• Reader for the CLMP Firecracker Awards (2022)

• AmeriCorps Fellow with Four Corners Conservation Corps (2020-2021)

  • Spent two AmeriCorps seasons in the backcountry as a crosscut sawyer, bucking and felling diseased or burnt trees for the health of the forest.