ONLINE WORK
- Monthly Curated Articles on Housing & Lifestyle for My Select Life
- "Switchback" in New York's Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Nonfiction (8/2018)
- "The Disappearance of Ms. Gorga" in New York's Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Fiction (7/2018)
- "Unfortunate Events" in Total Travel TAG, Issue #1, (pg.56) (2/2017)
- "The Boat" in Fiction (12/2016)
- "The Impersonator" in We Said Go Travel (10/2015)
- "Mine: A Bosnian Memory about Strangers" in Promethean (pg. 174) (5/2015)
- "A Tradition of Departing & Returning" in The Billfold (12/2014)
- "The Burrower, Part II" in The Billfold (7/2014)
- "The Burrower, Part I" in The Billfold (6/2014)
- "To Whom It May Concern: Messages from Long Island" in Dan's Papers (11/2012)
- "The 'Thinks' of Sakartvelo" in Footprints (8/2012)
- Medium
- What a Pretty Haystack
AWARDS & HONORS
- The Henry Roth Memorial Scholarship: “The Boat”: 2016
- The David Dortort Prize in Non-Fiction: “Makeshift”: 2016
- The Henry Roth Memorial Scholarship: “The Siren’s Edge”: 2015
- The David Dortort Prize in Non-Fiction: “When Life Gives You Lemons: Depictions of a Vagabond Life”: 2014
- The Henry Roth Memorial Scholarship: “The Impersonator”: 2014
- MFA Scholarship Recipient for The Slice Literary Writers’ Conference: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
- CUNYCAP Recipient: 2012-2015
- Accepted into the Thespis Theater Festival: “Dreaming Giants”: 2012, 2015
- The Stark Award in Drama in Memory of Ross Alexander: “Dreaming Giants”: 2008
- The Jacob A. Weiser Playwriting Fund Award: “Dreaming Giants”: 2008
- The Abraham A. Bernstein Class of 1930 Award: For a Graduating Senior Who Demonstrates Promise in a Creative Field: 2008
- The Laskin Award for Children’s Literature: Honorable Mention: “Aida’s Valiant Venture”: 2007
- Judged NYC poetry entries for the Poetry Outreach Festival: 2007-2008, 2012-2015
- Long Island Language Teachers Competition: 2nd place in Poetry: 2002
- Long Island Language Teachers Competition: Honorable Mention for Essay: 2001
PUBLICATIONS
- "Switchback", New York's Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Nonfiction, August 2018
- "The Disappearance of Ms. Gorga", New York's Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Fiction, July 2018
- "Unfortunate Events", Total Travel Tag. Issue #1, Spring 2017
- “The Boat”, FICTION, Number 62, Fall 2016
- "The Impersonator", We Said Go Travel, Fall 2015
- “Mine: A Bosnian Memory”, Promethean, Vol. 43, Spring 2015
- "I Said I'd Never See You Again", Poetry in Performance 43, May 2015
- “A Tradition of Departing and Returning”, The Billfold.com, December 2014
- “The Burrower: Part II”, The Billfold.com, July 2014
- “The Burrower: Part I”, The Billfold.com, June 2014
- “Peaches”, Poetry in Performance 42, May 2014
- “Menatrebi”, Poetry in Performance 41, May 2013
- “To Whom It May Concern: Messages from Long Island”, DansPapers.com, November 2012
- “The ‘Thinks’ of Sakartvelo”, Liternational.com, Vol. I, Issue 2, August 2012; Footprintsrecruiting.com, Featured Teacher Alumni News, September 2012
- "Crystal Vagnier of Amityville teaches English Abroad”, Amityville Record, December 2011
- “Dreaming Giants: Scenes 5, 7, 8”, Promethean, Vol. 36, Spring 2009
- “The Sequences of November”, Poetry in Performance 36, May 2008
- “Vagrant Child”, “Childhood Enchantments Gone Awry”, “Phantasmal Misapprehensions”, Expressions, Vol. 18, Spring 2004
- “Michael Glynn’s Theater: The Making of a Cultural Institution in Patchogue, New York”, The Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 16, Fall 2003/Spring 2004
- “Sounds of Hope”, Celebrate, Young Poets Speak Out- New York, 2001.