“Stay weird, stay different.”
–Graham Moore, Screenwriter

You are here—that life exists and identity;
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
–Walt Whitman

Bio

I was born and raised in Utah, and I currently live in Cambridge, England. I’m working on my PhD in Creative Writing at Anglia Ruskin University, under the supervision of Dr. Tiffani Angus. I completed my BA in Creative Writing and English at Southern New Hampshire University in 2014 and my MFA with Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2016. I also have a professional background in public education administration, higher education administration, and with the United States Federal Government.

My post-graduate creative writing thesis is a novel titled How to Cook a Dragon, which can be described as “Masterchef in Ankh-Morpork.” The accompanying critical commentary titled “Food and Cheer and Prose: The Gastronomy of Fantastic Literature” will focus on how food imagery and food tropes are used in world-building and characterization within the speculative fiction genre. You can follow me through my postgraduate studies at www.foodcheerprose.wordpress.com.

On occasion I also dip my pen into creative nonfiction and food writing, poetry, and contemporary fiction. I have poems published in the Icarus Down Review and the Yellow Chair Review, and in anthologies with Gnashing Teeth Publishing and Serving House Books. 

Some Lists of Favorites:

Books

• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
• Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
• Lock In and Head On by John Scalzi
• Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen by Garth Nix
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Cooked, and The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
• Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• NOS4A2 and Horns by Joe Hill
• The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

A Few Favorite Book Series

• Harry Potter
• The Interdependency Trilogy by John Scalzi
• The Hunger Games Trilogy
• Wayward Children Series by Seanan McGuire

Shakespeare Plays

• Macbeth
• Much Ado About Nothing
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Julius Caesar
• Othello
• The Tempest

Poets

• Walt Whitman
• Emily Dickinson
• Pablo Neruda
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Maria Ranier Rilke
• Andrea Gibson
• Aigerim Tazhi
• Rupi Kaur
• Renee Ashley
• HL Hix
• Heather Lang Cassera
• Leticia Cruz
• Kae Tempest
• Carol Anne Duffy
• Allen Ginsberg

Movies

• Aliens
• Better off Dead
• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula
• Coco
• Deadpool
• The Emperor’s New Groove
• A Fish Called Wanda
• The Fifth Element
• Frida
• Hot Fuzz
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Moana
• Mystery Men
• Priest (1994)
• Ratatouille
• Shame
• Spy
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Terminator 2: Judgement Day
• Us
• V for Vendetta

TV Shows

• Angel
• Better Call Saul
• Big Little Lies
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Chernobyl
• Chopped
• Doctor Who
• Futurama
• Good Omens
• Guy’s Grocery Games
• Happy!
• Hell’s Kitchen and Masterchef US
• Oz
• Santa Clarita Diet
• Spartacus
• Star Trek: TNG, DS9, and Discovery
• Stranger Things
• The Umbrella Academy

Musicians

• Adele
• Alanis Morissette
• The Beatles
• James Blunt
• Leonard Cohen
• Fall Out Boy
• Fleetwood Mac
• Hozier
• Imagine Dragons
• Elton John
• Lady Gaga
• Panic! At the Disco
• Queen
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Simon and Garfunkel
• Tom Waits

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