Curriculum Vitae

Education

The New School  (Sep 2025 — May 2027)

  • Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing (Fiction)

  • Public Engagement Scholarship

New York University (Sep 2022 — May 2024)

Columbia Teachers College (Sep 2020 — Oct 2021)

  • Master of Arts in the Teaching of Social Studies with Initial Teaching Certification in New York State (grades 7-12)

Columbia University 

Publications

Creative Writing

The Human Family: Novel Excerpt and Author Statement, Embark Literary Journal, Issue 23, October 2025

History

“Cities of Defeat: Spanish Civil War Refugees and the French Concentration Camps of 1939” in The Volunteer, Dec 2020

Literary Criticism

“Critiques of Ideologies of Race in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars” in American Literary Realism, Spring 2026 (forthcoming)

Fellowships & Awards

Creative Writing

  • Purple Ink Press Chapbook Contest, Finalist (2026)

  • Gival Press Short Story Award, Finalist (2025)

  • James Jones First Novel Fellowship, Semi-Finalist (2023)

  • National YoungArts Foundation: Honorable Mention in Novel Writing Category (2015, 2016)

  • Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: Silver Key in Short Story Category (2015); Silver Key in Writing Portfolio Category (2016)

  • Antioch Writers Workshop, Young Writers Seminar (2013-2017)

  • Reynolds Young Writers Workshop at Denison University (2014)

Literature

  • Member of Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society (2024-present)

  • Columbia University Departmental Honors: Comparative Literature & Society (2020)

  • Wallace A. Gray Prize for Literature Humanities at Columbia University, Honorable Mention (2017)

History

Conference Papers

“The Abolitionist Origins of the Passing Novel in American Literature” at C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Biennial Conference: Underground in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 12, 2026

Interviews

History 4 Two, Episode 13, “Theme: War,” March 24, 2022

Teaching & Freelance Writing Experience

Tutor, Wyzant (Sep 2021 — Present)

I have taught lessons in high school and college-level creative writing, English, literature, world history, European history, U.S. history, and philosophy.

Teaching Assistant, New York University (Jan 2024 — May 2024)

I taught two discussion sections, graded assignments, and held office hours for an undergraduate course on Literatures in English: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literatures in the New York University English department.

Course Assistant, New York University (Sep 2022 — Dec 2022)

I graded assignments for an undergraduate course on the history of capitalism in Korea in the New York University East Asian Studies department.

Course Creator, Juni Learning (Mar 2022—Apr 2022)

I taught a short story writing bootcamp to high school students, discussing classic short stories and helping students produce their own original stories.

Literature Guide Writer, LitCharts (Oct 2021 — Jan 2022)

I analyzed literary texts and wrote guides explaining the historical context, plot, characters, themes, symbols, and important quotations of works of literature.

Student-Teacher, Brooklyn Collaborative Studies  (Oct 2020 — Jun 2021)

I remotely taught a 10th-grade Big History course, and served as a support teacher in 11th-grade U.S. History and 12th-grade Economics and Government classes.

Tutor, Chegg Tutors (Jun 2016 — Jan 2020)

I taught lessons in high school and college-level writing, American literature, U.S. history, European history, world history, philosophy, psychology, environmental science, international relations, sociology, music, and art.

Leadership

  • National Coordinating Committee, At-Large Member, Young Democratic Socialists of America, 2020-2021

  • National Political Education Committee Chair, Young Democratic Socialists of America, 2020-2021

  • Co-Chair, Columbia-Barnard Young Democratic Socialists of America, 2020-2021

  • Branch Leadership, Barnard-Columbia Socialists, 2018-2019

Journalism