My short stories and essays have appeared in Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2022, New Ohio Review, Cleaver, African American Review, The New Guard, The Bitter Southerner, PANK, descant (Frank O'Connor Fiction Award), Green Mountains Review, Talking River, and other journals. In 2017, I received an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Contest, and I am currently working on my second novel.
I received my B.A. in English from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and my M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts. In 2019, I served as a Teaching Assistant for The Writer's Hotel Conference in NYC. I read for Hunger Mountain and work as a writing instructor for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.