Full C.V. available upon request
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Ph.D. in English (Creative Writing)
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M.A. in English (Creative Writing)
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B.A. in English
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Journalist, Renewable Fuels
OPIS, A Dow Jones Company
OPIS, A Dow Jones Company
Remote (Texas)
November 2019 — Present
• Daily RINs market coverage, price assessments
• Cover news affecting biofuels industry and markets
• Developing areas of coverage: sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)
• www.opisnet.com
Web and Information Designer
School of Architecture
Texas A&M University
School of Architecture
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas
July 2018 — October 2019
• Coordinate the school’s efforts to revitalize and maintain web presences across all units.
• Assess and improve the effectiveness of websites using web analytics applications.
• Work with content experts to draft and edit materials for publication.
• Implement a web content strategy to meet business goals by maximizing the impact of web content.
Managing Editor
Southern Humanities Review
Auburn University
Southern Humanities Review
Auburn University
The literary quarterly published by Auburn since 1967
Auburn, Alabama
March 2014 — February 2018
PRINT
• Produce four issues per year.
• Copyedit and typeset each issue (fiction, poetry, essays, book reviews).
• Deliver digital page proofs to contributors.
• Work closely with contributors to edit work for publication under deadline.
• Collaborate with the head editor and genre editors on the acceptance/rejection of submissions and the contents of each issue.
• Design the journal’s entire print identity.
• Solicit work from writers and artists.
• When Nonfiction Editor position is vacant, consider all nonfiction submissions and recommend publication of manuscripts to head editor.
MULTIMEDIA
• Design and maintain the journal’s website. Create and post all online content.
• Generate content for and manage the journal’s presence on popular social media platforms
• Create promotional videos for distribution via social media.
• Record and produce any audio programming associated with the journal. For website use, podcasts, etc. (Third Thursday Poetry Series, Auburn Writers Conference, Spring Sessions with Southern Humanities Review, and other local literary events).
• Design all print and digital promotional materials.
MENTORING
• Instruct creative writing graduate students—as well as SHR’s graduate and undergraduate interns—in professional editorial practices.
• Train and oversee the work of one program assistant per semester.
• Oversee activities of graduate student editorial positions: Assistant Copy Editor and Book Reviews Editor.
• Advisor, graduate student reading series.
ADMINISTRATIVE
• Create and collect contributor contracts.
• Oversee all journal finances and budgetary concerns.
• Manage general submissions and contest entries via CLMP’s online Submission Manager.
• Manage annual poetry prize (The Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Honoring Jake Adam York), plus SHR’s inaugural fiction and nonfiction contests in 2018.
• Manage a staff of approximately 20 editors of various ranks (genre editors, associate editors, assistant editors).
• Maintain domestic and international subscribers databases.
• Package and prepare each issue in-house for distribution to domestic and international
subscribers. Work extensively with campus mail services and local US Postal Service employees.
• Design and maintain an online store. Fulfill and process all orders.
• Organize and emcee readings and special events, including the journal’s annual spring event, Spring Sessions with Southern Humanities Review. Secure venues, host receptions, book catering, order and sell books, and oversee travel accommodations of visiting writers.
• Represent the journal at local, regional, and national events.
Nonfiction Editor
Arcadia Press
Arcadia Press
An independent literary journal founded in 2009
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
October 2012 — October 2014
• Manage, accept / reject, and return all nonfiction submissions via Submittable.
• Work closely with contributors to edit work for publication under deadline.
Managing Editor
Iron Horse Literary Review
Texas Tech University
Iron Horse Literary Review
Texas Tech University
The literary journal published by Texas Tech since 1999
Lubbock, Texas
August 2011 — May 2013
• Work closely with authors to edit work for publication under deadline.
• Manage publishing contracts, payments to contributors, and day-to-day administrative duties.
• Manage the receipt, acceptance/rejection, and return of hard copy and electronic submissions.
• Solicit work from writers for special themed issues, as well as artwork for issue covers and inside pages.
• Typeset and copyedit the contents of each issue (six issues per year).
• Coordinate a staff of 16 associate editors and one undergraduate intern.
• Organize the Iron Horse Reading Series: securing venues, hosting receptions, ordering and selling books, and overseeing the travel accommodations of visiting writers.
• Represent Iron Horse annually at AWP.
• Associate Editor, six years.
Instructor
Department of English
Texas Tech University
Department of English
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas
August 2008 — December 2013
• Teach undergraduate courses in creative writing, literature, and first-year writing.
• Design syllabuses and reading lists for two course sections per semester.
• Courses taught:
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- First-Year Composition and Rhetoric
- Essentials of College Rhetoric - Introduction to Fiction: Fiction of the Vietnam War - Introduction to Nonfiction: Contemporary American Memoir - Introduction to Nonfiction: Memoir and Place - Introduction to Creative Writing |
Collections Processor
The Vietnam Center and Archive
Texas Tech University
The Vietnam Center and Archive
Texas Tech University
November 2006 — August 2008
• Receive, process, and house artifacts in archive holdings
• Construct and maintain digital holdings
• Transcribe audio interviews for oral history projects.
Section Editor / Staff Writer
The Battalion
Texas A&M University
The Battalion
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas
January 2005 — May 2006
January 2005 — May 2006
• Supervise a staff of 15 writers, create and assign projects, and facilitate timely production of work.
• Copyedit work for publication under daily deadline.
• Design page layouts.
• Write reviews and articles of interest to readership.
• Copyedit work for publication under daily deadline.
• Design page layouts.
• Write reviews and articles of interest to readership.
