A Bio in Free Verse

I.

I first encountered design
thinking as an MFA
student working for
an online literary journal.
Ever since, it’s
guided my career, even
shaped how I write poetry.

As a designer, I follow
a data-informed, iterative
process to create
products that address
the actual needs of users and
positively impact
their experience.

And as a poet, I’ve
developed a process in
which I manipulate my
rough drafts with
software, then cut them up
and collage the parts
back into surreal new work.

II.

I live in the weird and
wonderful state of
Rhode Island, where I
design and write for
an interdisciplinary humanities
research institute
at Brown University.

I’ve published two books
of poems to date:
The Primitive Observatory,
which won Crab Orchard
Review’s first book
award, and The Ceremonial
Armor of the Impostor.

Recent writing experiments
include a multipart
magnetic poem about
a minotaur living underneath
a subway, and a book-
length erasure of
the 1890 novel The Bondman.