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Previous Degrees: B.A. in Literature and Culture in English, Brown University (2009); MFA in Poetry, Warren Wilson College (2012).

Current: M.A. in Russian: Russian and East European Studies (REES) Track

Research Interests: Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry; Russian Modernism, especially Tsvetaeva and Mandelstam; Poetry Translation.

Book Publications: At the Edge: Selected Political Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (Green Linden Press, 2025), Finalist for the 2026 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; Rest (Four Way Books, 2018), Winner of the Balcones Poetry Prize and the Audre Lorde Award.