Teaching
Lot 49 Bookstore / Instructor / “Is this the end of the world?” — a prose workshop Spring 2026 / Representing the Bifurcated Self in Prose, June and July 2025
Stockton University, Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway / Workshop Instructor / Beyond the Self: Character Development in Novels / and Reflection and Refraction in Memoir
Rutgers Camden MFA, Visiting Writers Series / Workshop Instructor / Chemical Bonding
Blue Stoop, A Home for Philadelphia Writers / Workshop Instructor / The Tipping Point, Writing Choice as Scene
Cleaver Magazine / Workshop Instructor / The Modality of Mania: How Emotional Pain Shapes Narrative
Temple University, University of the Arts, Widener University, Arcadia University, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago / First Year Writing Program / Adjunct Professor
Community College of Philadelphia / Introduction to Literature / Adjunct Professor
Select Publications
Essay and Fiction
forthcoming - Brink Literary Magazine, Issue 12: On The Brink of Chaos, Effective for the Aten
Test Pie Press, The Summer Cottage in Babylon
At What Cost, On Style
Zona Motel, I Yearn Across Obstruction
Zona Motel, Recession
Community Mausoleum, On Either Side
Racket Reading Series, A Narrative Concerning Megalopolis
A Year in Philadelphia, December 7th
Write or Die Mag, An Absolute Truth
Entropy Magazine’s WOVEN Series, Only Afterwards Don’t Anyone Stand Close to an Open Window*
Rejection Letters, The Subject of Space
A) Glimpse) Of) : THE NEST ISSUE, A Father A Son A Market
Anti-Heroin Chic : Issue No 16, Leeching
What Are Birds Issue 2.4 and 3.1, I Want to Hold Your Hand
Taco Bell Quarterly, Stuck in Second Gear
Expat Press, A Hot Knife Which Reveals A Disclosure Concerning Survival
Giallo Lit, The Last Living Dog
Communion Arts Journal, A Letter That Never Arrived
Reviews and Interviews
Bright Wall / Dark Room, Exposed, A Review of, That Most Important Thing: Love
Bright Wall / Dark Room, We Must Live for All Time, Or: A Review of Alex Garland’s Civil War
Full Stop, Interview with Juliet Escoria
Heavy Feather Review, Interview with Parker Young
Full Stop, Sam Heaps by Rebecca van Lear
Events
Second District Brewing, with Kevin Kearney, Graham Irvin, KKUURRTT, Nikki Volpicelli, Philadelphia 2025
Track Changes, with Austyn Wohlers and Alina Pleskova, Pen&Pencil Philadelphia, 2025
Celebration of the season of lilacs is monstrous, with Morgan Parker, Stephanie Cawley, Ed Halliday, Francesca Kritikos, Philadelphia, 2025
Celebration of Man Hating Psycho, with Iphgenia Baal, Graham Irvin, and Katie Bennett, Philadelphia, 2025
2X2, with Plastic Wallflowers, The Dole, Ashton Leigh, Cleveland, 2025
Exhibit B, A Literary Variety Show, with Erica Stern, Kenyatta Rogers, Julie Iromuanya, in the Pilsen Community Books Center, Chicago, 2025
Chicago Book Launch for The Living god, with Graham Irvin, Parker Young, James Stewart III, Francesca Kritikos, The Historic Fine Arts Building, Chicago, 2025
NYC Book Launch for The Living god, with Ben Fama, Zefyr Lisowski, Daisuke Shen, Stephanie Cawley, Topos Too Ridgewood, 2025
Philadelphia Book Launch for The Living god, Francesca Kritikos, 2025
Personal Velocity Reading Series, Sarah Wang, Taylor De La Pena, Philadelphia 2025
Boxx Press Reading, DaVinci Art Alliance, Sam Robinson, Alex Hampshire, Diandra Williams, Philadelphia 2025
Bring A Blanket Reading Series, Alexandra Naughton, others, Philadelphia 2025
Poet’s Row, Graham Irvin, James Milanesi, Jessica Scicchitano, and Justin Ryan Fife, Philadelphia, 2025
Luminous Abstract, Studio Showcase, Philadelphia 2025
Ghost Harmonics, Michael Joseph Walsh, Reuben Gelley Newman, Joe Hall, Music: Rachel Andie and Tangent Universes, Philadelphia 2025
A Celebration of Hell Gate Bridge: A Memoir, Nikki Volpicelli, Katie Bennett, Barrie Miskin, Lot 49, Philadelphia 2024
A Writer’s Party, Alexandra Naughton, Jesse Prado, Jiordan Castle, others, space 1026, Philadelphia 2024
A Reading of Clarice Lispector’s ‘Hour of the Star,’ Katie Bennett, Alina Pleskova, Stephanie Cawley, others, Head and the Hand Philadelphia 2023
Cheap Therapist Says You’re Insane in NYC, Bud Smith, James Yeh, Parker Young, Unnamable Books NY, 2023
Reunion Small Press Fest, Shane Kowalski, Katie Gene Friedman, Meghann Boltz, and Parker Young Lot 49 Books Philadelphia 2023
An Absence of Caution: Taking Risks Against Aesthetic Convention, AWP off-site panel hosted by Exhibit B 2023
Rethinking Professional Development as a Creative Class Struggle, Temple University History Department 2023
OF Cieri’s Backmask Book Celebration, Village Works NY 2023
CLASH Books Release Party, The Slipper Room NY 2023
Spring Reading, Nate Lippens, Lindsay Lerman, Ben Fama, others - Sisters NY 2023
Proximity Book Launch, Upstairs at Abyssinia Philadelphia, 2023
A Prestigious Evening of Literature from CLASH and Taco Bell Quarterly, Teku Tavern Seattle, WA 2023
A Conversation with Kimberly King Parsons, Mother Foucault’s Bookshop Portland, OR 2023
Personal Velocity Essay Series, Philadelphia 2023
Exhibit B Reading, Virtual 2022