MFA from Queens University, Charlotte NC. Graduate of the University of Alabama and Louisiana State University.
Short story credits include Maryland Review, NC Writers' Network, Pride Magazine, Bound-off, Duct Magazine, and Wanderlust Travel Journal. Finalist in the Gertrude Johnson Williams Literary Contest and Reynolds Price Short Fiction Contest. Winner of the 2024 Jacobs/ Jones Literary Prize. The novel A Cakewalk to Memphis was a quarterfinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest. Attended Sirenland Writers Conference, Positano, Italy. Selected to participate in Poets & Writers Publicity Incubator, Get the Word Out, and featured in Debutiful.