The iowa review
Awarded an editorial fellowship with the Iowa Review, serving as Poetry Editor for Issues #48.2, #48.3, #49.1, #49.2, #49.3, and #50.1.
Poems from these issues have been selected for Best American Poetry 2019 and the Academy of American Poets.
Reviewed literary and contest submissions for Issues #50.2 and #50.3.
Organized the Iowa Review's National Poetry Month Series in both 2018 and 2019, featuring poems by D.A. Powell, Sandra Simonds, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Cynthia Cruz, Ryo Yamaguchi, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Brandon Shimoda, Sara Deniz Akant, Chelsey Minnis, Alex Dimitrov, and more.
Facilitated the Iowa Review Awards in 2018 & 2019, as well as the The Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans in 2018.
BENNINGTON REVIEW
Worked as an Editorial Assistant for Issues #1: The Inaugural Issue, #3: Threat, and #4: Staying Alive.
Issues feature short stories, poems, and essays by Dorothea Lasky, Kaveh Akbar, Jericho Brown, Robyn Schiff, Phillip B. Williams, Anna Maria Hong, Su-Yee Lin, Rick Moody, Sabrina Orah Mark, Porochista Khakpour, Joanna Novak, and more.
Bennington Review won the CLMP 2017 Firecracker Award for Best Debut Magazine and the 2022 Whiting Foundation’s Literary Magazine Prize.
IOWA PRISON WRITING PROJECT
Helped kickstart the Iowa Prison Writing Project, a collaboration between the University of Iowa’s College of Law, Magid Center for Writing, the Writing University, and The Iowa Review.
STARRY FOREST BOOKS
Worked as a copy editor and content editor for 50+ titles, including:
Select Hardcover Picture Books:
10 Ideas to Save the Planet by Giuseppe D’Anna, illustrated by Clarissa Corradin.
Classic Stories: Little Women retold by Saviour Pirotta, illustrated by Sara Gianassi.
Pad Pals: Dog & Friends by Elizabeth Golding, illustrated by Sophie Beer.
Select Hardcover Chapter Books:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Valerie Tripp, illustrated by Carlo Molinari.
White Fang by Caroline Hickey, illustrated by Liza Tretyakova.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Susan Hill, illustrated by Teresa Martinez.
Select Board Books:
Baby’s Big World: Geography by Alex Fabrizio, illustrated by Hilli Kushnir.
Baby’s Classics: Alice in Wonderland by Alex Fabrizio, illustrated by Greg Paprocki.
Gamer Baby: Role-Playing Games by Moloy Rossiter, illustrated by BlueBean.
Look, Baby! Magical Creatures by Anne Elder, illustrated by Junissa Bianda.
SCHOLASTIC
Reviewed and assessed 400+ student-written entries and identified the top three winners in 5-6 categories each month for Scope Scholastic Classroom Magazine.
Managed the annual First Line Fiction contest in 2022 and 2023, narrowing down 500+ short story entries to 25 for contest judges Sayantani DasGupta and Claribel Ortega.
TURTLE POINT PRESS
Copy edited Father // Genocide by Margo Tamez in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition.
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS
Oversaw the Iowa Poetry Prize for the University of Iowa Press, evaluated book-length manuscripts, and narrowed 300 submissions down to 100 semi-finalists for the contest judge, Brenda Shaughnessy.
Winners:
What Flies Want by Emily Pérez, Spring 2022.
The Last Unkillable Thing by Emily Pittinos, Spring 2021.
I Always Carry My Bones by Felicia Zamora, Spring 2021.