Senior Lecturer
Publications
Books
 | The Pressure of all That Light (Rebel Satori Press, 2022) |
 | My Pet Sounds Off: Translating the Beach Boys, Finishing Line Press, 2020 |
 | Excerpts from a Natural History. Titus Books, 2015. |
Selected Poems
| “Cryptic Crossword L” and Cryptic LVI” | Nimrod (2020) |
| “Cryptic Crossword XXXIII” | Bombay Gin (2020) |
| “Cryptic Crossword XLIV,” “Cryptic Crossword XLVI,” and “Cryptic Crossword XLVII” | Northern New England Review 40 (2020) |
| “To San Francisco with Paul” | Home is Where You Queer your Heart (2020) |
| “Peaches,” “Please don’t hurt me”, and “When You Transition Without Me” | Spectrum (2020) |
| “Field Trip” | Borderlands (2020) |
| “Cryptic Crossword XIV” and “Cryptic Crossword XIX” | Random Sample (2017). |
| “The Strait,” “Eight,” “Beside the Church,” “Feed Me,” Apologetics of a College Freshman,” “Gather in the outcasts, all who’ve gone astray,” “When you tire of your homeland,” “Comfortable Grunge,” “Defend the Holy General,” and “Retrospective” | Alluvium (2017) |
| “Fish & Farm”; “Vertigo”; “Not a Gentleman”; “3am” | Softblow (2016). |
Selected Fiction
| “Denny’s” | Whiskey Paper (2014). |
| “Jean” | Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet. Ed. Clifford Garstang. Press 53, 2014. |
| “Phillip’s Face” | Sweet As: Contemporary Short Stories by New Zealanders. Eds. Blair Polly and Wendy Moore. 2014. |
Associations and Affiliations
Association of Writers & Writing Programs
New Zealand Poetry Society
Asia Pacific Writers & Translators
Areas of Expertise and/or Research
Creative writing; environmental writing; New Zealand literature; and fantasy/science fiction
Education
- M.F.A. University of Canterbury, 2009
Contact
Email:
Office Location:
322 Old Mill
Courses Taught
- Written Expression
- Harry Potter
- Climate Change in Sci-Fi and Fantasy
- At Work in America: Oral and Written Histories
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Australian/New Zealand Literature