5/6/26 New dates for The House at GCT have been announced: June 25th through 28th! You can get tickets for the performances here.
4/17/26 Happy opening to Julius Caesar at Germantown Community Theatre! Honored to have assistant directed this all femme-presenting production with Director Meghan Lisi Lewis.
4/13/26 My poem "eating peka in hvar" is officially published with Amsterdam Review! This poem is one of my favorites. Give it a read here.
4/9/26 "I-85" and "Seeing the National Guard at the hair salon" are live now with Deep South Magazine! Give them a read here.
4/8/26 The Veil had a lovely staged reading tonight directed by the incomparable Jamie Boller! It was so wonderful to hear this story about girlhood and ghosts out loud for the first time. 3/23/26 My play The Veil has been selected for a staged reading to celebrate the conclusion of the inaugural Seed to Script playwriting program through LoneTree Live! Being a part of this group has been such a rewarding experience, and I'm honored to have the script I wrote during the process read aloud.
3/18/26 Excited to share that my play The Death of Alan Campbell: A Wilde Affair will receive a staged reading in December through New Moon Theatre Company's new PHASES initiative!
3/16/26 "Glass Menagerie" is now live with Molecule! Give the poem a read here.
3/11/26 Unbelievably thrilled to announce I have been accepted into Yale University's MFA in Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism program! I'll begin in Fall of 2026 for this three-year course of study.
3/2/26 Today was the first rehearsal for Julius Caesar at Germantown Community Theatre! I am honored to be assistant directing this production director Meghan Lisi Lewis.
2/22/26 In April, my poems "I-85" and "Seeing the National Guard at the hair salon" will be published with Deep South Magazine as a part of their National Poetry Month features!
2/13/26 My shorter poem "Glass Menagerie" will appear in Molecule's spring issue!
2/8/26 My poem "eating peka in hvar" was selected for publication with Amsterdam Review! 1/29/26 "on birthmarks" is now live with The Bookends Review! Give it a read here.
1/25/26 My poem "bygones" was selected for publication with Quotidian Bagatelle through foofaraw! 1/11/26 Today was the first meeting of the Seed to Script Playwright Development Program! I am grateful to LoneTree Live for the opportunity to develop my new script The Veil with this cohort of amazing writers and artists.
12/15/25 I was chosen to be a part of the inaugural cohort of the Seed to Script Playwright Development Program with LoneTree Live! I am excited to work with mentor Evan Linder to refine and elevate my writing over three months.
12/11/25 My short story "Audubon" is now published with Rappahannock Review. Give it a read at the link here.
12/4/25 "In Heber Springs" is live on Poetry Habitat! Take a look here.
11/29/25 My poem "on birthmarks" will be published in February through The Bookends Review!
11/22/25 My poem "In Heber Springs" was selected for publication with Poetry Habitat! It will go live on their website on December 4th.
11/15/25 Today, I completed my personal goal of running my first half marathon in 2025. What began as a New Year's resolution turned into my involvement in a road race series. I am so proud of myself for leading by example for our Girls on the Run participants: You don't need to go fast. You only need to go your happy pace. 11/14/25 I am honored that dipity has selected my poem "fallen" as one of their five nominations for the 2026 Monarch Queer Literary Awards!
11/2/25 Happy closing to Frankenstein at Germantown Community Theatre! It has been wonderful to be a part of this talented cast and crew.
10/17/25 I have signed on as Assistant Director for the all femme-presenting production of Julius Caesar at Germantown Community Theatre under Meghan Lisi Lewis! Excited to work with some exceptional folks this spring.
10/3/25 My short story "Audubon" has been selected for publication in Rappahannock Review's December issue! 9/5/25 Playhouse on the Square has announced their six Finalists for NewWorks@TheWorks for 2025! These six scripts will receive staged readings, and two of them will be given world premiere productions in our next season. From there, one of our Winners will receive a second production at Northern Michigan University. Check out our Finalists here.
9/2/25 We just kicked off our biggest Girls on the Run Memphis season yet, with 250 participants at 16 sites across Shelby and Fayette counties!
8/22/25 As of today, I have officially received my MFA in Creative Writing from Augsburg University! I focused my degree in Fiction and took additional courses in Poetry.
7/6/25 Honored to have been nominated in dipity's Best of the Net for 2026 for my poem "fallen." I'm in exceptional company with the five other pieces nominated this year. Give them a read here.
6/30/25 My poem "an ode to chili peppers" is now live with The Passionfruit Review! Read it here.
6/18/25 The playwriting competition I direct NewWorks@TheWorks is entering a new collaboration with Northern Michigan University's Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Competition for 2025 submission window! From now on, one of our two Winners, in addition to receiving world a world premiere production at Playhouse on the Square, will receive a secondary collegiate production in NMU's summer line-up. Read more here.
6/13/25 Happy Final Sharing to Arts Explore camp at the Orpheum! I have been spending the last week with OTG as a Group Leader and Teaching Artist for 3rd-5th graders as they learn all about music, movement, and the fundamentals of theatre.
6/1/25 I am delighted to have been cast as Agatha De Lacy in Germantown Community Theatre's production of Nick Dear's Frankenstein! This spooky performance will run October 23rd through November 2nd of 2025.
5/23/25 Happy opening to the entire cast and crew of A Particle of Dread at New Moon Theatre Company! It's been wondering to assistant direct this production and provide dramaturgical research and assistance for the postmodernist work by Sam Shepard.
5/22/25 My poem "fallen" is now live with Dipity Lit Mag! Read it here.
5/18/25 Tech week for New Moon's A Particle of Dread has begun! I assistant directed and served as a dramaturg for this productino opening Friday. Tickets can be purchased here.
5/13/25 Tonight was the reading for Our Lady of the Tortilla at Theatre Memphis! The entire event was a celebration of everything their Read to Relate program stands for and the voices Theatre Memphis strives to uplift in our community.
5/5/25 I'm ecstatic to be a part of Theatre Memphis' Read to Relate program by participating in a staged reading of Luis Santeiro's Our Lady of the Tortilla! Our first rehearsal was today, and we will present the reading on May 13th.
5/4/25 Girls on the Run Memphis hosted over 600 participants, coaches, volunteers, and family supporters today for the Spring 2025 5K. I loved this organization and am so happy to see consistent growth in 5K attendance and awareness for this important organization.
4/21/25 We began rehearsals for A Particle of Dread, produced by New Moon Theatre Company, today! Excited to serve as a Dramaturg and Assistant Director for this production under Jeff Kirwan.
4/16/25 Made the trip down to Tuscaloosa, AL to attend the Red Rook Press' book launch and read from Route 460, my debut poetry collection. I am so excited to have these poems out in the world! Learn more and purchase your copy here.
4/13/25 Happy closing to Punk Rock Girl! It's been wonderful to perform in the regional premiere of this awesome work honoring female punk rockers throughout the decades.
3/21/25 We've officially opened Punk Rock Girl! at The Circuit Playhouse! The regional premiere production of Joe Iconis' new musical will run through April 13th.
3/3/25 It's official! My play The House has won the Teresa Jordan Emerging Local Playwright Competition through Germantown Community Theatre outside Memphis. The script will receive a production as a part of their new season in January and February of 2026.
2/11/25 Today is the first rehearsal for Punk Rock Girl! at Playhouse on the Square. Excited to be rocking out as Jacki Slaps, an extraterrestrial bass player from Queens, March 21st through April 13th.
1/9/25 2025 is off to a wild start! I’m so excited to announce my brand new poetry chapbook “Transit” is now published with Bottlecap Press out of Los Angeles. I’ve been working very hard on this for the past few months and it’s finally here to share with you all. This chapbook was inspired by movement and travel—the intentional and the unintentional kind. These are the places (and people) that are near and dear to my heart. It's available for purchase as of RIGHT NOW! Purchase your copy here.
1/8/25 Playhouse on the Square has announced the Winner of the NewWorks@TheWorks Playwriting Competition for 2024! Congratulations to Karen Saari for Tragedy Sound.
1/7/25 Thankful for the opportunity to represent NewWorks@TheWorks on Live at 9 through WREG with Kontji Anthony. We spoke about all things related to the playwriting competition at Playhouse on the Square and the upcoming world premiere production of Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin by Dianne Nora. You can watch the segment here.
12/20/24 I am honored to have been selected as one of Memphis Health + Fitness Magazine's 20<40 for the year for my work with Girls on the Run!
12/2/24 The first rehearsal for the world premiere of Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin by Dianne Nora was today! Six Men is one of the two winners from my first year as Director of New Works for Playhouse on the Square's NewWorks@TheWorks Competition, and I will be acting as a dramaturg for this production.
11/18/24 I have officially graduated from the Orpheum Theatre Group's Teaching Artist Training Program. I am honored to be a part of of their Fall 2024 cohort! Check out a photo of my cohort and I, as well as learn more about the program here.
10/30/24 My poem "In County Clare" is now live in the Watershed Review's Fall 2024 issue. Read it here!
10/17/24 Excited to announce that I will be playing Jacki Slaps in the regional premiere of Punk Rock Girl! at Playhouse on the Square. The show will open March 21st.
9/29/24 Today kicks off the NewWorks@TheWorks staged reading series at Playhouse on the Square! I am beyond honored to have coordinated the playwriting competition and series again this year.
9/20/24 I received my advanced contributor's copy of the newest issue of Modern Language Studies today. Two of my poems--"Down" and "Record Low Mississippi River"--are included in Volume 54, No. 1!
9/13/24 Happy opening to A Midsummer Night's Dream at Theatre Memphis! I'm so honored to be playing Helena in this production directed by John Maness.
8/30/24 "When the Streetlamps are On" published today with Jelly Bucket through the Bluegrass Writers Studio. The short story is inspired by a real billboard outside St. Louis.
8/29/24 Today was the first day of the Teaching Artist Training Program through the Orpheum Theatre Group! Excited to be a part of this learning cohort for the fall.
8/16/24 Excited to announce I will be providing dramaturgical research and services for the world premiere production of Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin by Dianne Nora at Playhouse on the Square! It's an honor to work with director Tony Isbell on this project.
8/5/24 I have officially completed my second residency with Augsburg University's MFA program. Next summer, I will attend my final residency and present both my thesis and craft paper before graduating from the program.
7/16/24 My poem "In Delphi" was just published in Audience Askew through Nat 1 Publishing. Get your copy here!
7/7/24 "Runner's High" is live with Rising Phoenix Review! Give it a read here.
6/29/24 Excited to have directed Ballad of a Very Glorious Leader through LoneTree Live's 24Hour Plays! It was a wonderful experience working with my collaborators. The production program can be read here.
6/17/24 My poem "In County Clare" will be published later this year in the Watershed Review!
6/13/24 My poems "Down" and "Record Low Mississippi River" were selected for publication with Modern Language Studies, a journal representing members of the Northeast Modern Language Association.
6/8/24 I was selected as a Director for LoneTree Live's 24Hour Plays, a festival taking place later this month!
6/7/24 My poem "Compulsive" was included in the collection S/He Speaks 2: Voices of Women, Trans & Nonbinary Folx through Moonstone Press, available here.
5/31/24 Tickets are on sale now for Silence is Violence: Wish Me Well through Young Playwrights' Theater. I was honored to be asked to write for this partnership with Voices Unbarred exploring the role of wellness in the body.
5/17/24 My poem "unnamed" was published in Issue #4 of Gabby & Min's Literary Review! Read it here.
4/22/24 Excited to announce that I will be starting a new position as Program Manager for Girls on the Run Memphis! I'm excited to uplift young women in my city through after school programming and recreation.
4/18/24 I just received word that I was cast as Helena in Theatre Memphis' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream! Excited to return to the stage in September.
4/17/24 My poem "Compulsive" will appear in the 2024 print poetry anthology S/He Speaks: Voices of Women and Trans Folx in June!
4/3/24 My poem "In Delphi" will be published in the upcoming issue of Audience Askew Literary Journal.
3/11/24 My poem "unnamed" was selected for publication with Gabby & Min's Literary Review this spring! 3/11/24 My play "The Death of Alan Campbell: A Wilde Affair" was selected as a Finalist for the 2024 Waterworks Festival through Live Arts!
2/27/24 My poem "Cereal Dater" will be included in the summer issue of Millennial Pulp, Vol. 5! 2/23/24 My short story "When the Streetlamps Are On" will be included in Jelly Bucket #14 this summer! 2/19/24 My poem "853 Haiku" was included in a themed edition of the North Star Journal through the Sierra Club. Check out a PDF of the publication here.
2/12/24 My flash fiction piece "The Three Days Fast" was published by Flash Fiction Magazine! Check it out here.
11/17/23 One of my poems will be included as a 853 haiku celebrating Minneapolis and St. Paul through the Sierra Club's North Star Chapter in their winter journal.
11/15/23 "Rinse Cycle" was published in the November issue of One-Sentence Poems! Take a look here.
11/4/23 Received news that my poem "In Tennessee, Pt. II" will be published with The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature in April of 2024!
10/8/23 My poem "Rinse Cycle" was selected for publication with One-Sentence Poems through Ambidextrous Bloodhound Press! The work will be included in their November issue.
9/8/23 "Blue Lagoon Baby" was published by Papers Publishing today! Giver her a read here.
8/28/23 We announced our Finalists for the 2023 NewWorks@TheWorks Playwriting Competition at Playhouse on the Square today! It was an absolute joy to read over 500 scripts from around the world and select these fantastic original pieces: Facebook Announcement Here
7/22/23 Today is the first day of my summer residency for my Creative Writing MFA at Augsburg University. I'm excited to spend a week in Minneapolis with fantastic writers!
6/24/23 I just participated in and completed LoneTree Live's 24 Hour Plays! I wrote a ten-script for four local Memphis actors entitled "The Delta Pumpkin Pi Philanthropy Talent Show." Check out the event program here.
5/19/23 Play Slam! Year 5 at Playhouse on the Square begins today! The festival celebrating young playwrights with continue through the 21st and feature 12 ten-minute plays written by middle and high schoolers in the Mid-South.
4/28/23 Happy opening to Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812!
3/21/23 Today was the first rehearsal for Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 at Playhouse on the Square. I'll be serving as a dramaturg and assistant director for the production.
3/17/23 Read my poem "Fragile" at Sad Girls Club here.
3/6/23 Winners of Play Slam! Year 5 at Playhouse on the Square were announced today! I have been coordinating and planning this 10-minute play competition and festival for the year. Read more here.
2/27/23 My poem "Fragile" was accepted for publication with Sad Girls Club! It will go live on March 17th. 2/4/23 Roe opened at Playhouse on the Square! Excited to share this work with the world.
1/3/23 Today is the first rehearsal for Roe at Playhouse on the Square. I'll be working as an Assistant Stage Manager for the project directed by Irene Crist. 10/1/22 Excited to take on coordinating Play Slam!, a playwriting competition for young writers, at Playhouse on the Square!
9/9/22 My original poem "Hunger" was selected for publication in the ebook Remarkable Poetry through Silent Spark Press! Order it here.
7/10/22 SWC was a blast! I've grown tremendously and met some amazingly talented people.
7/8/22 Happy opening day to Shanktown at TheatreWorks@The Square! I am excited to have contributed some dramaturgical work to the production through Playhouse Prep.
7/6/22 First day of the Southampton Writers Conference at Stony Brook University! Excited to workshop my short story "Blue Lagoon Baby" with Frederic Tuten and ten other wonderful writers.
6/14/22 Today was my first day at Playhouse on the Square in Memphis, TN. I'll be here for a year working as an Administrative and Front of House Apprentice.
4/19/22 Today, I was accepted to the Southampton Writers Conference workshop series. Excited for the program in July!
2/28/22 My short story "92" was officially published today as a part of Mid-Atlantic Tales: Vol. 2. Buy a copy here.
2/4/22 Look for my poem "Vanilla Latte" published with One-Sentence Poems!
1/15/22 Excited to begin reading submissions with West Trade Review's Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction competition!
11/4/21 Tickets for All Together Now! are on sale now--get them while you can.
9/27/21 Today was the first rehearsal for Rock Hill Theatre's production of All Together Now! I will be stage managing the production, directed by Titus Quinn.
8/25/21 First day of school! Excited to be teaching at Ranson IB Middle School as a corp member for Teach for America.
7/17/21 Theatre: A Love Story premieres today at the Women's Theatre Festival! In addition to performing in TALS, I was also able to build captions for The Bowels, another piece in the fringe festival.
6/13/21 As of today, I have officially graduated from Dartmouth College--go Big Green!
5/15/21 Excited to announce that I will be performing at the Women's Theatre Festival fringe festival this July in the Lab work Theatre: A Love Story by Caridad Svich! I will also be captioning select performances for the festival.
5/2/21 Jane premiered through the Dartmouth College Department of Theater! Thanks to all the actors and creatives who made it possible.
4/25/21 We are officially one week out from the performance of my original honors thesis play Jane!
4/14/21 I am honored to have received the Benjamin & Edna Ehrlich Prize in the Dramatic Arts and the Warner Bentley & Henry B. Williams Fellowship from the Dartmouth College Department of Theater!
2/3/21 A staged reading of The House produced by Young Playwrights' Theater premiered virtually on YouTube! Working with YPT has been such an amazing experience, and I am excited to see how the play grows even more between now and our next reading in May.
1/4/21 Excited to begin my time as an apprentice (virtually) with the Women's Theatre Festival in Raleigh, NC!
11/6/20 The premiere of Tell Me I'm Not is here! Huge thanks to the Dartmouth Department of Theater. Check the show out on their YouTube!
10/11/20 Currently working on writing and performing a solo show this November called Tell Me I'm Not, focusing on experiences living with obsessive compulsive disorder. More information can be found here.
9/19/20 Excited to begin working on Faith, Hope, and Charity, a radio play directed by Peter Hackett this fall!
8/20/20 Excited to begin Young Playwrights' Theater's year-long Young Playwrights in Process workshop of The House!
8/8/20 Little Circles was presented as a staged reading today via Zoom webinar as a part of the 2020 Frost & Dodd Playwriting Festival. A big thank you to director Niegel Smith and all the various artists who made the work possible! 8/2/2020 The first read-through of Little Circles for the 2020 Frost & Dodd Playwriting Festival is here! This is the beginning of a week-long process culminating in a staged reading of the play, presented through distance technology.