Employment

Honors

Education

Publications and Performances

Primary Appointments

Senior Language Lecturer, Expository Writing Program,
NYU 2013-present

Language Lecturer, Expository Writing Program, NYU
2007-2013
Instructor, Expository Writing Program
2006-2007

Teaching Assistant, Expository Writing Program
2003-2006
Head Teacher, Sugarplum Day Nursery
2000-2002

Additional Appointments

Diversity Committee Member
2016-2017

Writing Center Consultant, New York University
2006-present

Monthly Arts and Literatures Columnist, 3quarksdaily
2012-2015

Broome Street faculty fellow for poetry stream
2007-2008

New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in Poetry $7,000 unrestricted use, 2009

Award of Excellence in Teaching, New York University
Received most semesters 2003-present

Hart Leadership Award in Arts and Policy, Duke University 1998

MFA in Poetry, New York University
2006
Final Project: “The White Year: On the Togolese General Unlimited Strike of 1992” (advisor: Kimiko Hahn)

Draper Humanities and Social Thought study, NYU
2002-2003

Print Poems

“Ode to Origins” Broadsided Press
“Come Undone” Painted Bride Quarterly . “Rogue,”“Virgin” American Poetry Review “The White Year,” “Cahier D’un Retour Au Pays Not-Natale,” “Ahab’s Song” Transitions Magazine, Harvard University
“Island,” “Manahatta Menagerie,” “A Reason To Howl” Painted Bride Quarterly “the offering” jubilat
“Sundays in Lome” Painted Bride Quarterly

Selected Online Poems

“Christ, Chyrse; Thoughts About Gold, “De-is for Deed,” “E is for Easy/F is for Fate” Fogged Clarity
“Soap,” “America is Always Far Away” Fogged Clarity
“Intuition, Black Rose” Union Station Magazine
Small View of Grand Central Boxcar Poetry Review

Selected Online Essays

“Meditations On How the New World Grows Older” re-posted by the New Yorker Blog
“Why Do We Read Detective Stories?” re-posted by the New Yorker Blog “Zoned Out: Boredom in a Digital Age” re-posted by TriQuarterly Magazine

Selected Performances

Poets Settlement feature (2018)
Dumbo Arts Festival: Member of Pop-Up Poetry (2013)
Page Meets Stage: Representative of Stage for Poets & Writers sponsored series. louderARTS: 4 solo features 2005-2012
Paid performances of poems at Undergraduate Arts Festivals . 2000-2004 University of North Carolina, Duke University, Georgetown University

Published Collection

Alphabet: A chapbook mytho-history of the English Language” Finalist at Tupelo Press. Published Finishing Line Press 2016

Selected Unpublished or Forthcoming Work

“Deep Water Women” submitted and in circulation.
“She-Fox: A Play Derived from the Life of Sculptor Louise Bourgeois” Work in progress.
”The Patron” fiction. Work in Progress.
“The Animated Word: Exercises in Poetry, Performance and Teaching” Work in progress.

Other Presentations

“Loud Pauses,” participant in performance at Stanford University Performance Studies Conference (2013)
“Engagement Through Poetry: A Qualitative Study of the High School Literacy Project” poet-teacher guest at University of North Carolina conference (2006)

Professional Service

Core member of louderArts, one of the three most prominent poetry reading 2006-2014 series in New York City.