2021 - Present | Steinbeck Fellows Program Coordinator, San Jose State University | |
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2017 - Present | Assistant Professor, San Jose State University ‐ English and Comparative Literature | |
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2016 - 2018 | Faculty Advisor, Goddard College | |
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2009 - 2018 | English Instructor, Evergreen Valley College | |
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2014 - 2015 | Lecturer, California State University, East Bay | |
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Disciplines
Grants
2022 | Can Poetry Save the Planet?: Poetry & Environmental Justice |
Humanities & Arts Artistic Excellence Programming | |
Colleague(s): Alan Soldofsky |
Professional Service and Affiliations
2021 - Present | Board member, Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, | 2015 - Present | Editorial Board member, Literature for Life | 2015 - Present | California Guest Editor, Oxford African American Studies Center | 2022 | Organized, Legacy of Poetry Festival | 2020 - 2021 | Steering committee member, Inlandia Institute | 2020 | Co-hosted and Moderated, Words, Beats & Life: Street Lit Symposium | 2019 | Editor-in-Chief, Reed Magazine | 2019 | Special Issue Editor, Words. Beats. Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture |
Honors and Awards
- University of Virginia Rea Visiting Writer, November 2021
- National Arts Entertainment Journalism Awards finalist for “One Coyote” 2021
- Folio Eddie Award: Overall/Special Interest for “One Coyote”, 2021
- Publisher’s Weekly starred review for The Confession of Copeland Cane 2021
- Publisher’s Weekly Summer Reads for The Confession of Copeland Cane 2021
- Public Voices Fellow, 2020 21
- Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize for The Confession of Copeland Cane 2020 (declined)
- Marin Headlands Fellow (Artist in Residence), 2017
- Callaloo Fellow, 2016
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Fellow, 2015, 2017
- SJSU College of Humanities & Arts RSCA Award, 2021-22
June 2013 | PhD, English, University of California, Riverside | |
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May 2005 | MFA, English and Creative Writing, Mills College | |
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