‘s first novel, The Good Echo, won the 2017 Big Moose Prize and is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press this November. Her stories and essays have been published in GulfCoast, BlackWarriorReview, Conjunctions, Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Utah and is an Associate Professor of English at Union College in Schenectady, New York where she teaches creative writing and literature.