is the author of The Animal at Your Side, which won the Airlie Prize and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Julie Suk Award. My poems have appeared widely in journals, including Colorado Review, Muzzle, Copper Nickel, Crab Orchard Review, Harvard Review, The Cincinnati Review, and Denver Quarterly. I’ve been a resident-fellow at Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Evolve Marquette Creative Residency, and The Studios at MASS MoCA.
I started my journalism career in the Ecuadoran Amazon, where I reported on the effects of oil development and ecotourism. After freelancing for a year, I was awarded an editorial fellowship at Foreign Policy magazine, where I wrote daily blog posts and long-form articles. In 2016, I received a reporting fellowship from the International Women’s Media Foundation to report on the Colombian Peace Deal. I’ve written for The Atlantic, Smithsonian, The Guardian, and Vice. I also worked as a senior editor at Snopes from 2016-2017.
I completed my MFA at the Bennington Writing Seminars, where I studied poetry and fiction. I’m also a graduate of the Gateless Academy and a participant in The Writing Mentors training program. My first short story is forthcoming in The Bennington Review.
