Professional Writing Portfolio

Curated List:

-“10 Ways to Love Your Life,” Huffington Post UK, 12 April 2014 (culture/wellness essay)

-“Not Done With The World,” The New York Times, Modern Love, 23 October 2018

-“Jim Morrison, Where The Bombs Don’t Fly,” Boston Review, 23 September 2014 (culture/travel essay)

-“How The Internet Changed The Way We Read,” The Daily Dot, 1 January 2016 (culture/technology essay)

Additional Writing Samples:

-“Driving The World Insane,” Huffington Post UK, 23 May 2014 (culture/wellness essay)

-“Stories Without Women,” Ploughshares, 02 July 2017 (book review)

-“Our Words Will Save Us & Set Us Free,” Longreads, 18 March 2019 (travel/culture essay)

-“The Dream of an Inclusive Masculinity,” The Good Men Project, 16 September 2018 (gender/culture essay)

-“Japanese Boy Band Saves The World,” Ploughshares, 08 January 2017 (video game review)

-“Why Love Doesn’t Have to Make Sense,” The Good Men Project, 28 October 2018 (gender/culture essay)

-“Obasan in a Cup,” Guernica Magazine, 17 August 2016 (personal essay/culture essay)

-“Lyrics Without Songs, Hyphen, 18 August 2022 (personal essay/culture essay)

-“Jackson Bliss Recommends,” Poets & Writers, 20 April 2022 (writing essay)

Accreditation:

-Google Professional Certificate in Project Management, May 2013

Education:

-PhD in Literature & Creative Writing, USC, 2013

-MA in English, USC, 2013

-MFA in Creative Writing, University of Notre Dame, 2007

-BA in Comparative Literature, Oberlin College