Super thrilled that I will be returning to Wildacres in western NC for a writing residency this summer! It'll be my second time there as a writing fellow and...

The anthology I've got a chapter in, Theatre Artisans and Their Craft, is out as of August 31, 2019! It's a great collection of essays and interviews with pr...

My newest technical article, "Spartre: Old and New," is forthcoming in the December 2018 issue of the UK-based millinery e-magazine, HATalk! The piece provid...

I've just signed on to write a chapter for the forthcoming anthology, Theatre Artisans and Their Craft: The Allied Arts Fields, edited by Rafael Jaen and pub...

I'm so excited to share that i'll be attending the 2018 Tin House Summer Workshop in Portland this July, working on the draft of my novel CASKET OF SECRETS w...

In honor of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, several of us (faculty and students) at UNC-Chapel Hill are working on a...

I'm so excited to announce that my graduate students and I are quoted extensively in the new textbook, 3D PRINTING BASICS FOR ENTERTAINMENT DESIGN by Anne E...

I'm so pleased to announce that my creative nonfiction essay, "Field Guide to the Backstage Habitat," will be included in the forthcoming anthology OF BURGER...

Here's some cool news: I've created a summer writing residency for myself, in a manner of speaking, in Minneapolis-St. Paul. A colleague works for a commerci...

I am honored to be a part of the Artists After Hours series on the College of Arts and Sciences website. The interview series focuses on faculty and staff of...

Upcoming Events: I will attend the Institute for Arts and Humanities Emerging Writers Cafe on December 5th, 2016, at Hyde Hall on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hi...

I’m so honored and proud to have been selected as one of the recipients of the 2016 Barbara Deming Fund/Money for Women fiction grant. The fund, establishe...

My week spent as a resident writer at Wildacres just off the Blue Ridge Parkway was fantastic! So fantastic, in fact, that in addition to the work I did ther...

Perhaps the most exciting is that I’ve been awarded a one-week writing residency at Wildacres retreat in western North Carolina. I’ve heard a lot of truly am...

A few updates of note in the realms of the academic and theatrical: The most recent episode of the ThankYou10 podcast features the costume production team at...

I'm a featured presenter of costume and properties topics at the upcoming USITT Southeast regional conference, to be held at the University of North Carolina...

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So thrilled to announce that i'll be giving the introduction to the Ackland Film Forum's screening of the documentary, Finding Vivian Maier on November 18th ...

You might wonder what this has to do with my writing, but bear with me. The Drag Queen Debacle might be what finally cuts the Facebook cord, not just for me,...