Education, Awards & Honors, Credentials, Experience

Education

• UNLV, Masters of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Creative Writing
• UCLA, Masters of Education (M.Ed.)
• UC Berkeley, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Awards & Honors

• 2023 Longlist Nonfiction, Disquiet Literary International
• 2023 Writing Residency, Storyknife
• 2023 Writing Residency, Vermont Studio Centers
• 2023 Honorable Mention, Miami Book Fair Emerging Writers Fellowship
  
• 2023 Center for Cultural Innovation Quick Grant Recipient
• 2022 Katharine Bakeless Nason Contributor Award Recipient, Bread Loaf
• 2022 Southampton Writers’ Conference Scholarship
• 2021 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, partial scholarship
• 2021 Top 10% of entries, CRAFT Short Fiction Prize judged by Kirstin Valdez Quade
• 2021 Third Place Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference judged by Chris Dennis
• 2021 Norma Watkins Scholarship Recipient, Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference
• 2021 Graduate Student Association Travel Funding International Research Grant
  
• 2020 English Department Dorothy Mae Freischel Scholarship
• 2018 Phyllis Gebauer Scholarship in Writing, UCLA
• 2010 Clint Harper Teacher's Award Recipient
• 2010 Hispanic Scholarship Fund Recipient
• 2009 Abulafia Humanities Scholarship Recipient
• 2009 Latina Leadership Network Scholarship
• 2008 Ventura County Retired Teachers Association Scholarship Recipient
• 2008 Delta Kappa Gamma Society for Women Educators Grant Recipient

Professional Development & Workshops

• Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
  
• Columbia University, Lucy Calkins Reading & Writing Institute Participant
  
• National Writing Project Fellow at UCLA
• Kenyon Review Teachers Workshop

Credentials & Certifications

• The Body Positive Workshop Facilitator
• Single Subject Clear Credential in Secondary English Education
• Multiple Subject Credential in Elementary Education
• TESOL certification
• CPR and First Aid certified (Adult, Teen, Infant) with AED
• Trustline fingerprint and background check verified
  

Work Experience

• 12+ years of teaching experience as Adjunct Professor of English and Creative Writing, credentialed Middle School English Founding Teacher, & School Librarian
• Managing Editor, Black Mountain Institute's award-winning literary magazine, Witness
• Writing Workshop Instructor with Crow Collective, UNLV
• 6+ years of experience as freelance writer and editor
• Guest Writing Instructor, Merced Arts Council Summer Programs
• Guest Juror, Scholastic Alliance for Young Artists & Writers Art & Writing Awards

References available by request.