Film
Short film: Please Open A Door for Me, 2018Video: A Rusted Rail, 30/30 Poetic Vision, Jack Kerouac School, 2015Poetry
Two Untitled Poems, ÖMËGÄ, Metatron Press, 2017 How to Eat Yourself, Spilled Milk, 2017 Who Brought the Storm, ExPat Press, 2017 Undertow, ExPat Press, 2017 Over, HEAVY ATHLETICS, 2016 Shadow on Bone, HEAVY ATHLETICS, 2016 please open a door for me, ÖMËGÄ, Metatron Press, 2016 The Sinking, Helix Syntax: The 41st Summer Writing Program Magazine, Naropa University, 2015 Three Untitled Poems, LuNaMoPoLiS no.3: On Your Person, The Lune, 2015 Pause for Your Mortality, The Lune, 2015 Three-Liners and Capital Heist, THWARP SHORTS 3.2, Semicolon, 2014 Commentary on a Tibetan Book, LuNaMoPoLiS no.2: Please Do Touch, The Lune, 2014 Untitled, LuNaMoPoLiS no.2: Please Do Touch, The Lune, 2014Chapbook: gills in rain gutters, Kavyayantra Press, 2013 Excerpt from Landlocked Madness, The Riddles We Talked In, Semicolon, 2013 Where Trains Divide, Heart-Lipped Spider, Semicolon, 2012Prose
My Size Dancing Barbie, Voices, (b)OINK, 2017Jade Cruz Quinn's “of topological shift,” Boulder Tattoo Project, 2014Other Publications
Interview with CAConrad, fields, 2016 J’Lyn Chapman with J. Hillis Miller, The Conversant, 2013Fail Better, Shambhala Times Community News Magazine, 2014Performance
Reading: Cal State LA, Los Angeles, CA, 2019Reading: I’m Alive In Los Angeles, Letters to My City Release Party with Mike Sonsken, Poetry at the Space, Los Angeles, CA, 2019Reading: The Cosmic Collective: A Group Poetry Reading, New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans Healing Center, New Orleans, LA, 2019Reading: Poetry at the Ben Montgomery Mile, Zephyr Community Art Studio, Santa Fe, NM, 2018Performance art: Normal Dinner Party, Collective Arts Incubator, Los Angeles, CA, 2017Modeling: The Deeper Show, photo series by Marcos Rivera, Las Vegas, NV, 2017Poetry performance: Guest Artist appointment with musical accompaniment by Paddy Pearse, Manifesting Visions, Aware Project, Collective HQ/Counterpunch Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 2017Reading: [Dis]connected, Naropa Writing Center, Naropa University, Boulder, CO, 2013Talks & Presentations
Workshop: “How to Read the Tarot Without Guidebooks,” Public Fruit Co., 2021Panel: “The Braided River,” Summer Writing Program, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University, 2015Presentation at Writing Matters Conference, College of the Canyons, 2012
Photo
Hands, Morning/Mourning, Le Petit Press, 2018 Wendy C. Ortiz, fields, 2017Matt Clifford, Ballad of Todd Last Year, Cherry Publications, 2017CAConrad, fields, 2016 Mira Gonzalez, fields, 2016Exhibition
Photography: dear friend and murder suite, NYCorrespondence, Kickstarter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2014Awards & Honors
Please Open A Door For Me, New Industry Finalist, Oaxaca FilmFest, 2019Amiri Baraka Award, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University, 2016Press
Radio interview: Amazing Stories from Skid Row, KKLA 99.5 FM, Los Angeles, CA, 2018Radio show: Show hosted by Jeremey Kennedy and co-host Rebecca Ramirez, KCHUNG 1630 AM, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA, 2017New Digital Chapbook from JKS Student, Jack Kerouac School, 2014Let Them Eat Cake: Across the Threshold: A Reading Hosted by the Naropa Writing Center by Joseph Navarro, Jack Kerouac School, 2014 The Story of Semicolon, Boulder Poetry Tribe, 2013
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Writing & LiteratureNaropa University, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Boulder, CO, 2015
Additional Coursework
UCLA Extension Writers' Program, Los Angeles, CA, Winter 2022 (via Zoom) ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA, Fall 2021 (via Zoom)Workshops
(W)rites of Passage with Sarah Schantz, Boulder, CO, January and February 2022 (via Zoom) Four Queens with Selah Saterstrom, Boulder, CO, January 2022 (via Zoom) (W)rites of Passage with Selah Saterstrom, Boulder, CO, September and November 2021 (via Zoom) Echo Park Film Center with Will O’Loughlen, Los Angeles, CA, October 2021 (via Zoom) The Home School with TC Tolbert, Hudson, NY, July 2021 (via Zoom) (W)rites of Passage with CAConrad, Boulder, CO, May 2021 (via Zoom) Kundiman with Nayomi Munaweera, New York, NY, March 2021 (via Zoom) Echo Park Film Center with Lisa Marr and Paolo Davanzo, Los Angeles, CA, Winter 2021 (via Zoom) Krystal Krunch with Asher Hartman and Haruko Tanaka, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA, Winter 2017Summer Writing Program, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University, Boulder, CO, 2015 and 2016 Great Books Summer Program, Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA, 2009
Meditation Training
Clairvision School, 2019–Present (Western Esotericism)Big Bear Retreat Center, Big Bear City, CA, 2018–2019 (Theravada)Against the Stream Meditation Center with Dave Smith, Malibu, CA, 2017–2018 (Theravada)School of Humanity & Awareness (SoHA), Atlanta, GA, 2017 (Western Esotericism)Naropa University, Boulder, CO, 2012–2015
Samatha-Vipassana with Lama Tenpa (Vajrayana)
Yoga with Nataraja Kallio
Shamanic journeying and Chinese medicine with Marlow Brooks Dharma Ocean with Reggie Ray, Boulder, CO, 2014 (Mahamudra)Nalandabodhi Colorado with Lama Tenpa, Boulder, CO, 2012–2014 (Vajrayana) Boulder Shambhala Center with Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, Boulder, CO, 2013 (Vajrayana)
Professional Experience
Associate Marketing Manager, Articulate, 2021–Present Digital Marketing Specialist, Articulate, 2020–2021Content Strategist, The Moran Group, 2019–2020
Digital Media Specialist, Union Rescue Mission, 2018–2019
Employment Specialist, Union Rescue Mission, 2017–2018
Private Tutor, TutorDoctor, 2016
English Instructor and Tutor, Opportunities for Learning Charter Schools, 2015–2016
Faculty Liasion, Summer Writing Program, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University, 2015
Academic Tutor, Youth Policy Institute, 2015
Marketing Coordinator, East-West Wellness, 2012–2014
Editorial Intern, Shambhala Times Community News Magazine, 2013
Copywriter, VimPeople, 2012
Counselor, Camp Whittle Outdoor Science School, YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, 2011
Volunteer Experience
Board of Directors, Covenant Home for Children, Georgetown, Guyana, 2017–2019Kitchen Volunteer, Union Rescue Mission, 2015–2016
Social Media Strategist, Heaven on Earth Society for Animals, 2015
Office Volunteer, Tia Chucha Press, 2012
Residential Camp Counselor, Camp Whittle and Camp Round Meadow, YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles–North Valley Family YMCA, 2008–2012
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