I am the 2024-2025 Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities & Writing at Cornish College of the Arts. My Hugo House and independent classes are on hold for the moment; shoot me an email to be on my mailing list, which will announce my next offerings outside of Cornish.

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My past Hugo House courses have included:

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• generative workshops, including courses focused on loss and friendship;

• a workshop centered on interiority and characterization;

• monthlong craft course focused on detail and description and on sentence-level craft choices;

• a class about using hands-on practices to better understand structure in your writing and reading;

• a one-day workshop on interweaving personal narratives and nature writing

• “reading as a writer” classes on Annie Dillard, Marcel Proust, Henry James and Sally Rooney, Herman Melville and Marilynne Robinson, Virginia Woolf and her inheritors, nontraditional narratives of solitude, novels about friendships that span decades, what prose writers can learn from reading poetry, and essay collections organized around a particular repeated form or constraint.

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I've also led the following independent writing classes in the past couple of years:

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• a yearlong workshop-focused course for prose writers;

• a five-month generative intensive, also focused on writing prose;

• a monthly meeting group for writers focused on generating and sharing new work and discussing the writing life. 

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Beyond Hugo House and Cornish, I've led college-level academic and creative writing courses for students at the Washington Corrections Center for Women through FEPPS, the UW Robinson Center's Summer Stretch Program,​ Bard College's Language & Thinking Program, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Juniper Institute for Young Writers, Bard’s Clemente Course in the Humanities, and The Care Center, an alternative high school and microcollege for young women who are pregnant or parenting.