I am a poet, translator, editor, and literary critic. I earned my PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. I also hold an MFA in Poetry from the University of Mississippi, where I was a John and Renée Grisham Fellow. I am currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

I am the author of seven chapbooks of poetry and hybrid prose, including most recently To Hell With Good Intentions (Beautiful Days Press, 2024), as well as three forthcoming volumes, I’m Sorry But None of This Is My Fault (Essay Press), The Mary-Kate Olsen Figures (Juvenilia), and Treat Culture (Creative Writing Department). My work has appeared or is forthcoming in various literary journals and anthologies, including Chicago Review, Cincinnati Review, Conjunctions, Fence, jubilat, Pleiades, VOLT, and the Best New Poets anthology series. For more, click here.

I am also a literary translator, primarily from Spanish, and have published two bilingual chapbooks by the Argentine poet Liliana Ponce: Diario/Diary (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), and Fudekara (Cardboard House Press, 2022). A full-length volume of Ponce’s work, Theory of the Voice and Dream, is forthcoming from World Poetry Books in 2025. Individual poems have appeared in Asymptote, Denver Quarterly, Guernica, Gulf Coast, New England Review, Poetry, Witness, and elsewhere. Additional information can be found here.

In my research, I focus on U.S. and Latin American poetry and poetics in the 20th and 21st centuries, with a special focus on the 1970s and 1980s. My current project, entitled “Neoliberal Visions: Poetry, Mysticism, and Crisis in the Americas,” examines the figure of the visionary poet across the American hemisphere in relation to the neoliberal turn. I am also interested in translation studies, experimental and avant-garde literature, Latinx and multi-ethnic U.S. writing, and critical theory. My work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the American Comparative Literature Association, the Northeast Modern Language Association, and the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. I also write reviews and public-facing essays, which have appeared in ASAP/J, Colorado Review, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, and elsewhere.

Since 2015, I have been involved with the Best American Experimental Writing series, serving first as managing editor before becoming a Series Editor in 2020. The most recent edition of the anthology, BAX 2020, was published in December of 2020 by Wesleyan University Press. For more about BAX, click here. I also edit Charm: A Journal of New Poetics.