EDUCATION

M.F.A Creative Writing, Syracuse University, University Fellow, May 2009

Thesis: Dark Thirty

Committee: Michael Burkard, Brooks Haxton, Mary Karr, Chris Kennedy, Bruce Smith.

B.F.A Creative Writing, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe NM.

Studied under poets Arthur Sze and Jon Davis.

AWARDS

Lannan Residency Fellowship 2009

Syracuse University Fellowship (Full Fellowship in Creative Writing Program) 2006-2009

Nominated for a Rolex Mentor and Protégé Award (22 Writers Nominated Internationally) 2008

The Fine Arts Work Center’s Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Scholarship (Full Scholarship Summer Program) 2007

Napa Valley Writers’ Workshop (Full Scholarship) 2006

Idyllwild Summer Poetry (Full Scholarship) 2005

Truman Capote Scholarship (Full Scholarship in the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing Program) 2001

Naropa Summer Writing Undergraduate Scholarship (Full Scholarship) 2001

TEACHING

Syracuse University (TA) 2007-2008 Academic Year: Taught freshman and sophomore level Academic Writing.

White Horse High School (Visiting Poet) Fall 2005

Santa Fe Indian School (Visiting Poet) Fall 2003

EDITORIAL/PROFESSIONAL

Web Editor, Salt Hill Journal August 08-Present

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Dark Thirty (University of Arizona Press) Spring 2009

 

Literary Journals/Anthologies:

Many Mountains Moving (One Poem) Spring 2009

The CT Review (Four Poems) Spring 2009

Third Coast Magazine (Two Poems) Fall 2008

Narrative Magazine (Two Poems) Winter 2007

The Oregon Literary Review (Four Poems) Summer 2007

The American Poet: Emerging Poets Feature, Intro by Sherman Alexie (Four Poems) Fall 2006

The Ontario Review: Feature (Five Poems) Fall 2006

To Topos International Literary Magazine (4 Poems) Fall 2006

Scrimshaw: Institute of American Indian Arts Anthology (Nine Poems) 2006

Fish Head Soup: Institute of American Indian Arts Anthology (Sequence of Six Poems) 2005

Retinal Exchange: Lila Wallace Poetry Project (One Poem) 2002

Maple Vapor: Institute of American Indian Arts Anthology (Four Poems) 2002

New Mexico Culture Net (One Poem) 2000

Tribal College Magazine (One Poem) 2000

READINGS

University of Central Florida (Orlando FL) 2009

Urban Think! Bookstore (Orlando FL) 2009

Griswold Museum via Soul Mountain Retreat (East Haddam CT) 2009

Salon Reading Series (New York, New York) 2009

Institute of American Indian Arts (Santa Fe, NM) 2009

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009

Indigenous AWP Poets & Writers (Chicago Ill) 2009

AWP Atlanta: Anything but Token (Atlanta GA) 2007

Bluff Arts Festival (Bluff UT) 2005

Remapping the Imagined Nations (Tucson AZ) 2003

Fandango Literary Festival (Bluff UT) 2002

Naropa Scholarship Student Reading (Boulder CO) 2001

Aztec Café (Santa Fe, NM) 2000