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AA in Liberal Arts from Ivy Tech Community College, Sellersburg, IN
BA in English from the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
MFA in Poetry from Pacific University in Forest Grove, OR

Being a teacher is the destination which I was not always striving for, but where I have most certainly found my niche. After high school, I started college as a music major, intending to become a concert pianist. While I excelled in English and writing courses, college did not meet my expectations. I left school to pursue more artistic endeavors.

I filled the years with travel, art, music, culture, an almost-recording contract, and writing. Once I got adventuring out of my system, I returned to college with the goal of becoming a nurse, as I had grown to love the medical field by working in medical offices as day jobs. I loved everything about being back in school and joined every academic honor society, student government association, and student leadership group available to me. However, in a moment of self-realization, I changed my major from nursing to Liberal Arts and rerouted the course of my academic career.

I graduated with high honors from the University of Louisville, began teaching at my alma mater, Ivy Tech Community College, and started the low-residency writing program at Pacific University. I took to teaching like I took to being a student. It was natural, fulfilling, yet still challenging.

I teach classes (rhetoric and composition, literature, liberal arts, and new student seminars) at Ivy Tech, UofL, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, and Eastern Kentucky University. I discovered LCA through the Composition Department at UofL and knew immediately it would be an exciting endeavor.

I am an internationally-published poet and spoken-word performer, animal lover, film buff, concert-goer, costume and prop-maker, and fashionista. I reside in Southern Indiana with my rescue dog, Sweetie.