WRITING
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PROFESSIONAL
JUST WRITE! — Director/Instructor Customized English/Writing educational content and instruction at a private learning center. FREELANCE CONTRACTS — Writing/Editing/Web-Design Composing marketing copy, editorials, event reporting, biographical, review/critique, narrative, essay, educational content, blog, technical writing, and various other styles and specs; general website design AOL’s PATCH.COM — Columnist Produced over 150 published articles from July 2010 to December 2011, mostly a parenting-focused column called "Dad Around Town" |
PERSONAL
THE SATYRIST — Editor Satirical news website - Active in 2016 - Planning 2020 return DRABBLED — Director/Editor - Micro-fiction writing tournament - Active 2014–2015 (4 competitions) |
ACADEMIC & AWARD
WSU English Department Awards — 2013/2014
- 2013 Albert Feigenson Scholarship for Music and English
- 2013 Loughead-Eldredge Endowed Scholarship In Creative Writing
- 2013 Phillip Lawson Hatch, Jr Memorial Award (1st in Fiction)
- 2013 Phillip Lawson Hatch, Jr Memorial Award (1st In Poetry)
- 2014 Phillip Lawson Hatch, Jr Memorial Award In Poetry (2nd in Poetry)
- 2014 Tompkins Award (2nd in Poetry)
- 2014 John Clare Prize (Honorable Mention)
B.A. in English with a Film Studies minor (Wayne State University)
Capstone Project (Undergraduate Thesis): “Octavia Butler’s Novel Dawn Incorporates Substantiated Science and Theory with Biblical Cosmological Allusion, Dialectically Providing an Afrofuturist Narrative that Offers the Exploration of a Speculative Yet Possible Transition from Contemporary Humanity to Post-Humanity”
WSU English Department Awards — 2013/2014
- 2013 Albert Feigenson Scholarship for Music and English
- 2013 Loughead-Eldredge Endowed Scholarship In Creative Writing
- 2013 Phillip Lawson Hatch, Jr Memorial Award (1st in Fiction)
- 2013 Phillip Lawson Hatch, Jr Memorial Award (1st In Poetry)
- 2014 Phillip Lawson Hatch, Jr Memorial Award In Poetry (2nd in Poetry)
- 2014 Tompkins Award (2nd in Poetry)
- 2014 John Clare Prize (Honorable Mention)
B.A. in English with a Film Studies minor (Wayne State University)
Capstone Project (Undergraduate Thesis): “Octavia Butler’s Novel Dawn Incorporates Substantiated Science and Theory with Biblical Cosmological Allusion, Dialectically Providing an Afrofuturist Narrative that Offers the Exploration of a Speculative Yet Possible Transition from Contemporary Humanity to Post-Humanity”
