DIANA ARTERIAN
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, THH 404
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90089-0354
ARTERIAN@USC.EDU
EDUCATION
PhD Candidate, University of Southern California, Literature & Creative Writing, May 2017.
Graduate Certificate: Gender Studies
Merit Fellowship Recipient, 4.0 GPA
Creative Dissertation: Agrippina the Younger
Critical Dissertation: Migratory Wounds: Relayed Trauma in Contemporary Poetics
Expected Date of Submission: May 2017
Committee: Susan McCabe (Chair), Viet Thanh Nguyen, Shana Redmond, David St. John
Passed Qualifying Exams: October 2014
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, School of Critical Studies, Poetry, May 2011.
Beutner Fellowship Recipient, 4.0 GPA
Thesis: Playing Monster
Readers: Maggie Nelson (Mentor), Janet Sarbanes.
BA, University of Southern California, English Literature, May 2007.
Minor: Flora Thornton School of Music, Violin Performance
Tuition Exchange Scholarship Recipient, Cum Laude
Thesis: “‘O, ‘tis pregnant, pregnant!’: An Investigation of Shakespeare’s ‘O’ Through Lacan.”
Readers: Daniel Tiffany III, Kevin Egan.
AREAS OF INTEREST
gender studies, feminist theory, haunting, memory, poetry, postcolonialism, trauma theory, war
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Lecturer, Thematic Option Honors Program, University of Southern California
CORE 112 Writing Seminar II – “Womb to Tomb: Poetics of a Life”
Literature and analytical writing course with original theme and book list, Spring 2016.
CORE 111 Writing Seminar I
Analytical writing course associated with CORE 101 “Culture and Values: Thematic Option
Honors Program,” Prof. James Collins, Fall 2015.
CORE 112 Writing Seminar II – “Woman Warriors”
Literature and analytical writing course with original theme and book list, Spring 2014.
CORE 111 Writing Seminar I
Analytical writing course associated with CORE 101 “Culture and Values: Thematic Option
Honors Program,” Prof. Heather James, Fall 2013.
Instructor, The Loudest Voice Writing Workshop, University of Southern California
Weekly two-hour extracurricular creative writing workshop team-taught with Chris Muñiz,
Spring 2015 - present.
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Poetry Instructor, Education Unlimited Emerging Writers Institute, Stanford University
Daily three-hour writing workshop and two two-hour electives, Summer 2012 - present (annual).
Head Writing Instructor, 2013 - 2015.
Assistant Lecturer, The Writing Program, University of Southern California
WRIT 140 Writing and Critical Reasoning
Associated with IR 101xg “International Relations,” Prof. David Kang, Fall 2012 - Spring 2013.
Writing Instructor, School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts
Associated with CS 110 “Writing Arts: 20th Century Art Movements and Society,” Prof.
Maggie Nelson, Fall 2010 - Spring 2011.
Associated with CS 145 “Latin American Megacities,” Prof. James Wiltgen, Spring 2010.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ( SOLICITED)
Chapbook
Death Centos, Ugly Duckling Presse, September 2013. Second printing forthcoming.
Poems
“Last Words of the Dying – I, II, VII.” From Death Centos. trnsfr, Issue 6. Forthcoming.
“Introduction” and “Ecchoing Garden.” From Songs of Innorience. Birdfeast, Issue 12 (Spring 2016).
Excerpt from Arrangement of Parts. Seneca Review, Volume 44, No. 1 (Fall 2015), 157-160.
“The Night Voice.” From Songs of Innorience. Denver Quarterly, Issue 49.4 (Summer 2015), 81.
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Four poems from Seiche. Your Impossible Voice, Issue 8 (Spring 2015).
Three poems from Seiche. Sink Review, Issue 13 (Winter 2014).
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Five poems from Songs of Innorience. Anomalous, Issue 12 (Summer 2014).
Excerpt from The Catskill Eagle, Salt Hill Journal, Issue 32 (Spring 2014), 63-70.
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“Two Men Yelling.” From Playing Monster. Boog City, Issue 84 (Spring 2014), 6.
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“Agrippina the Younger.” Black Warrior Review, Issue 40.2 (Spring 2014), 128.
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Four poems from Seiche, Eleven Eleven, Issue 16 (Spring 2014).
“Arizona,” “Interview,” “In Iowa.” From Playing Monster. Yew Journal, Issue 23 (Spring 2014).
Excerpt from The Catskill Eagle, DIAGRAM, Issue 13.4 (Fall 2013).
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Fifteen poems from Seiche, The Volta, Issue 14 (Fall 2013).
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“Last Words of the Dying – VI,” “Last Words of the Condemned – To Loved Ones,” with
“Statement of Research.” From Death Centos. Common-place, Volume 13.3 (Spring 2013).
Four poems from Playing Monster. H_NGM_N, Issue 15 (Spring 2013).
“Last Words of the Condemned – To The Public,” “To Those of the Law.” From Death Centos.
The Offending Adam, 120.5 (Fall 2012).
“Like Fire.” From Playing Monster. ROAR. Issue 2 (Summer 2012), 46.
“Last Words of the Condemned – To the Executioner(s) I, II.” From Death Centos. Corium
Magazine, Issue 9 (Spring 2012).
“Mother of God,” “Instruction.” From Playing Monster. Two Serious Ladies, (Spring 2012).
“Last Words of the Dying – III, V,” “Last Words of the Condemned – On Innocence.” From
Death Centos. Foothill, Volume 2.1 (Spring 2012), 14-16.
Five poems from Playing Monster. Anamesa, Volume 9.2 (Winter 2011), 81-85.
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“Heimat,” “The Grey Fox.” DUM DUM, Issue 1 (Fall 2011). Broadside.
“Two Minutes.” From Playing Monster. Iron Horse Literary Review, Father’s Day Issue, Vol
13.3 (Summer 2011): 28.
“The Albatross, Golden Mollymawk.” River Styx, Issue 84 (Spring 2011): 66-67.
Translations
Translations from Persian of Nadia Anjuman’s poetry, done in collaboration with Marina Omar:
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“Fresh Buds,” “Twins of Circumstance,” Eleven Eleven. Forthcoming.
“Bedroom,” “Go,” “One Must Try,” “Turmoil,” “Woe Is Me,” National Poetry Month.
Forthcoming.
“If Only,” “My Sweet Ghazal,” “My Garden,” “Prison.” Two Lines, Issue 23 (Fall 2015). 58-65.
“Insane Heart,” “Sun of Knowledge.” Apogee Journal, Issue 5 (Summer 2015). 112-115.
“Appeal,” “I Wish,” “The Night’s Poetry,” “Sitting with Spring’s Daughter,” “Tragic Stories,”
with “Translator’s Note.” The Brooklyn Rail. February 2015.
“Chaotic,” “Fantasy,” “Stone Heart,” with “Notes on Translation.” Exchanges: A Journal of
Literary Translation (Winter 2015).
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“Poison,” “The Dark Mountain,” “Human, Iron, & Stone.” Asymptote. January 2015.
“Deep Love,” “Escape,” “Godly Beauty,” with “Nadia Anjuman and the Ghazal Form.”
International Poetry Review, Volume 41, Issue 2 (Fall 2014). 16-22.
“Eternal Pit,” “Failure,” “Girlish Heart,” “Rich,” with “Translator’s Note.” Circumference (Fall 2014).
“Dark Flower,” “In Vain,” “Steel Strings.” Aufgabe, Issue 13 (2014). 288-293.
Book Reviews
Review of: Sarah Vap, Viability. New York: Penguin Group, 2016. In Los Angeles Review of
Books. Forthcoming.
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Review of: Mary Jo Bang, The Last Two Seconds. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2015. In
Coldfront Magazine, January 2016.
Review of: Robin Coste Lewis, The Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems. New York:
Knopf, 2015. In The Rumpus, November 2015. Written up on the Poetry Foundation
blog, Harriet, November 20, 2015.
Review of: Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2015. In Boston
Review, May 2015. Written up on the Poetry Foundation blog, Harriet, May 18, 2015.
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Review of: Claudia Rankine, Citizen. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2014. In Puerto del Sol,
April 2015. 269-275.
Review of: Douglas Kearney, Patter. Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2014. In Coldfront Magazine,
December 2014.
Review of: Catherine Taylor, Apart. New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013. In Coldfront
Magazine, June 2013.
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Review of: Diana Fuss, Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy. Durham, North Carolina: Duke
University Press, 2013. In Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2013.
Review of: Sung Po-jen, Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom, trans. by Red Pine. Port Townsend,
Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2011. In Coldfront Magazine, April 2013.
Review of: Sarah Vap, Arco Iris. Ardmore, Pennsylvania: Saturnalia, 2012. In PANK, December 2012.
Review of: Farrah Field, Wolf and Pilot. New York: Four Way Books, 2012. In PANK, October 2012.
Review of: Hillary Gravendyk, Harm. Richmond, California: Omnidawn, 2011. In Coldfront
Magazine, October 2012.
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Review of: CA Conrad, A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics. Seattle: Wave Books,
2012. In PANK, July 2012.
Review of: Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper
Canyon Press, 2012. In Coldfront Magazine, June 2012.
Review of: Alice Notley, Culture of One. New York: Penguin Group, 2011. In Coldfront
Magazine, November 2011.
Creative Non-Fiction & Essays
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“On Harm.” Los Angeles Review of Books. Forthcoming.
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“The Politics of Silence in Anne Carson’s Nay Rather.” The Volta, Issue 54, June 2015.
“Four Rehearsals for Alice Notley.” The Offending Adam, Issue 183.2, February 2015.
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“Swimming at the Y.” “Feminism and Fitness” feature in Delirious Hem, December 2014.
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Review of “Friends, Bitches, Countrymen: Contemporary Feminist Poetics” Event. In Boston
Review, April 2014.
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“Notes to a Young Poet 3.3.” H_NGM_N, June 2013.
Conversations & Recordings
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Conversation with Marci Vogel. Jacket2 Commentaries. Forthcoming.
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Conversation with Robin Coste Lewis. KCHUNG, The People Radio, November 2015. Republished in The Volta, December 2015.
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“Sound Affect: A Conversation with Reena Esmail and Diana Arterian.” Issue Magazine,
(Spring 2015).
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Conversation with Sarah Vap. make/shift, Issue 15 (Spring 2014). 13.
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On Songs of Innorience. KCHUNG, The People Radio’s “Notes From The People,” July 2014.
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Conversation with Henry Hoke. “A Primer” Series, in Jacket2, December 2013.
Edited Anthologies
Among Margins: Critical & Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics. Los Angeles: Ricochet Editions,
2016. Forthcoming.
Works-in-Progress
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Agrippina the Younger. A collection of poems.
Arrangement of Parts (aka The Catskill Eagle). A book-length hybrid poem/lyric essay.
Dark Flower. Translations of Afghan poet Nadia Anjuman’s work from the original Persian.
Playing Monster :: Seiche. A collection of poems.
Songs of Innorience. A chapbook of poetry and visual art.
Articles in Edited Anthologies
“‘The story that cannot be told’: Obscured Memory and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!,” Afterlife in
the African Diaspora, ed. Mae G. Henderson and Jeanne Scheper. Forthcoming.
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, & HONORS
International & National
Yaddo Residency with Whiting Foundation Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, New York, Summer 2016.
Zvona i Nari Residency, Ližnjan, Croatia, Summer 2016.
Acceptance to Atelier Austmarka Artist Residency, Norway, Summer 2016 (declined).
Shortlist for Can Serrat Artist in Residence with full writer stipend, Barcelona, Spain, Spring 2016.
Shortlist for Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, California, Spring 2016.
Acceptance to Ragdale Residency Program, Lake Forest, Illinois, Fall 2015 (declined).
Shortlist for Playing Monster :: Seiche, 1913 First Book Prize, Fall 2015.
Shortlist for Playing Monster :: Seiche, Octopus Books Open Reading Period, Fall 2015.
Semi-finalist for Playing Monster :: Seiche, Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, Fall 2015.
Semi-finalist for Playing Monster :: Seiche, Tarpaulin Sky Press Book Prize, Fall 2015.
Acceptance to Napa Valley Writers’ Conference with scholarship, Saint Helena, California,
Summer 2015 (declined).
Caldera Arts Center Artist in Residence with Concordia Foundation Stipend, Sisters, Oregon,
Spring 2015.
Shortlist for Ragdale Residency Program, Lake Forest, Illinois, Spring 2015.
Vermont Studio Center Residency with Writer Grant, Johnson, Vermont, Fall 2014.
Acceptance to John Ashbery Home School, Hudson, New York, Fall 2014 (declined).
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Semi-finalist for Seiche, Joanna Cargill Poetry Prize, Coconut Books, Summer 2014.
Acceptance and Merit Fellowship (Poetry), Summer Literary Seminars, Summer 2014 (declined).
Finalist for Disquiet International Literary Prize in Poetry, Summer 2014.
Finalist for Baltic Writing Residency at Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest, Summer 2014.
Acceptance to Byrdcliffe Art Colony, Woodstock, New York, Summer 2014 (declined).
Finalist for “Agrippina the Younger,” Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest, Fall 2013 (received
publication).
Honorable Mention for Playing Monster, Joanna Cargill Poetry Prize, Coconut Books, Fall 2012.
Second Place for “The Albatross, Golden Mollymawk,” International River Styx Competition,
Spring 2010 (received publication).
Semi-finalist for “Deliberation on a Criminal Poet,” Gulf Coast Prize, Spring 2010.
Institutional
The student nominated by the Graduate School for the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship,
University of Southern California, Fall 2015.
Creative Writing & Literature Summer Fellowship, University of Southern California, Summer 2015.
First place for “Agrippina the Younger – 23 CE,” 2015 Edward W. Moses Graduate Creative
Writing Competition, Judged by Vandana Khanna, University of Southern California, Spring 2015.
One of three students nominated by the English Department for the Provost’s Mentored
Teaching Fellows Program, University of Southern California, Spring 2015.
One of four students selected university-wide for the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Student
Recognition Award, University of Southern California, Spring 2015.
Honorable mention for “Agrippina the Younger,” 2014 Edward W. Moses Graduate Creative
Writing Competition, University of Southern California, Summer 2014.
Creative Writing Program Mildred Fox Hansen Summer Research and Writing Award,
University of Southern California, Summer 2014.
English Departmental Conference Travel Award, University of Southern California, Fall 2013.
Creative Writing & Literature Summer Fellowship, University of Southern California, Summer 2013.
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Diploma in Innovation Grant to translate Nadia Anjuman’s poetry from the original Persian into
English, University of Southern California, 2012-2013.
Diversity and Academic Professional Development Travel Award, University of Southern
California, Fall 2012.
English Departmental Conference Travel Award, University of Southern California, Fall 2012.
Doctoral Student Summer Institute Research Grant, University of Southern California, Summer 2012.
Merit Fellowship at the University of Southern California's Ph.D. program in Literature &
Creative Writing, 2011-2012 and 2014-2015.
One of seven students institute-wide awarded the Beutner Family Award for Excellence in the
Arts, California Institute of the Arts, 2010-2011.
CalArts Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, 2009-2010.
James Reddy Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, 2009-2010.
Graduated Cum Laude, University of Southern California, Spring 2007.
Undergraduate Honors Thesis in English Literature, University of Southern California, Spring 2007.
First Prize in Creative Works at the Undergraduate Writer’s Conference, University of Southern
California, Spring 2007.
Middleton Undergraduate Creative Writing Award, University of Southern California, Spring 2007.
Dean’s List, University of Southern California, Spring 2006 - Spring 2007.
Tuition Exchange Program, University of Southern California, 2003-2007.
SELECTED READINGS
Fourth Sundays: Poetry at the Claremont Library Event – Claremont, California, August 2015.
AWP Off-Site Small Press Reading: Anomalous Press, Argos Books, Autumn Hill,
Circumference, Deep Vellum, M–Dash, and Ricochet – Gamut Gallery, Minneapolis, April 2015.
Caldera Open Studios Event – Caldera Arts Center, Sisters, Oregon, March 2015.
Reading with Jackie Clark – Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, November 2014.
Reading with Christine Kanownik and J. Hope Stein – Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Brooklyn,
September 2014.
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Non-Standard Lit Event with Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu – Gym Standard, San Diego, April 2014.
If Not For Kidnap Event with Amaranth Borsuk and Nicole Trigg – Portland, March 2014.
Studio One Reading Series Event with Ben Mirov and Judith Taylor – Oakland, March 2014.
Reading with Ashley Farmer and Brandon Som – Pop-Hop Books, Los Angeles, March 2014.
Amiri Baraka tribute event with Harmony Holiday and Fred Moten – The Blue Whale, Los
Angeles, January, 2014.
Reading with Anna Moschovakis – Mello Velo, Syracuse, New York, December 2013.
Reading with Douglas Kearney and Sarah Vap – The Last Bookstore, Los Angeles, September 2013.
Morbid Anatomy Event with Natalia Porter – Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, September 2013.
Ugly Duckling Presse Cellar Series Event with Rachel Levitsky and Maged Zaher – Old
American Can Factory, Brooklyn, September 2013.
Reading with Erica Mena and Kate Schapira – Ada Books, Providence, Rhode Island, September 2013.
2x2 Event with Anna Deeny Morales and Janaka Stucky – Lorem Ipsum Books, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, September 2013.
Death Centos Chapbook Launch – Concord, Los Angeles, August 2013.
Reading translations of Nadia Anjuman’s poetry with musical setting by Reena Esmail – The
Ruskin Art Club, Los Angeles, May 2013.
Reading with Basim Al-Ansar and Travis Diehl – Public Fiction, Los Angeles, April 2013.
Reading with Jibade-Khalil Huffman and Simone White – Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles,
March 2013.
The Poetry Project Event with Cody-Rose Clevidence – St. Mark’s Church, New York,
December 2012.
Foothill Event with Timothy Donnelly – Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California,
October 2012.
“The Catskill Eagle Read-A-Thon,” ENTER > text – Concord, Los Angeles, November 2011.
Featherless L.A. Event with Stephen van Dyck and Lisa Teasley – Stories Bookstore, Los
Angeles, October 2011.
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The Loudest Voice Event – Mountain Bar, Los Angeles, September 2011.
Next Words: CalArts MFA Showcase – REDCAT, Los Angeles, May 2011.
Next Words Reading – Skylight Books, Los Angeles, May 2011.
Thesis reading followed by a question and answer session moderated by Maggie Nelson –
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, April 2011.
Sprawl Reading – California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, February 2011.
CONFERENCES, PANELS, & TALKS
Panels Organized & Chaired
“Lyrical Visions: Use of the Image in Contemporary Poetics,” &NOW 2015, Blast Radius:
Writing and the Other Arts, California Institute of the Arts, March 2015.
“Racializing Whiteness,” The Racial Imaginary: A Conference on Race, Creative Writing &
Literary Study, University of Montana, March 2015.
“‘We have left our broken house in ecstasy’: Ecopoetics Through Travel” roundtable,
Conference on Ecopoetics, University of California – Berkeley, February 2013.
Papers Presented & Roundtable Conversations
“Sensuality, the Body, and the Quest for Authenticity in Translation” roundtable, AWP
Conference, Los Angeles, March 2016.
“‘The story that cannot be told’: The Violence of Order in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!,”
“Morphology of the Trauma Text” Seminar, American Comparitive Literature Association,
Harvard University, March 2016.
“Vernaculars as the Substantiation of Traffic: A Challenge of Translation” roundtable, American
Literary Translators Association Conference, Tucson, Arizona, October 2015.
“Translating the Image: Making Fine Art Available to the Literary World,” “The Voyage of
Graphic Literary Forms” Panel, AWP Conference, Minneapolis Convention Center, April 2015.
“Songs of Innorience: Craft Talk and Reading,” “Lyrical Visions: Use of the Image in
Contemporary Poetics” Panel, &NOW, California Institute of the Arts, March 2015.
“‘Racist’: The Trouble in the Noun,” “Racializing Whiteness” Panel, The Racial Imaginary
Conference, University of Montana, March 2015.
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“A Transitional Poetics” performance with Paul Legault, “The New Translation, Writing
Through Rewriting” Panel, AWP Conference, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle,
February 2014.
“‘The Crack’: Trauma of Witness & Elyse Fenton’s Clamor,” “Skin (Un)bounded: Destabilizing
Notions of Gender/Sexuality in Science, Art, and Theory” panel, Thinking Gender Conference,
University of California – Los Angeles, February 2014.
“‘Something binding’: How Claudia Rankine’s American Lyric Weaves Public and Private
Catastrophe,” “Politics and Social Change” panel, Experimental Women Writers Conference,
University of Manchester, England, October 2013.
“Playing Monster: Is Producing a Text of Trauma an Act of Cruelty?” (critical and creative
presentation), “Cruelty and Creative Production” panel, Association of English Graduate
Students Conference on Cruelty, University of Southern California, April 2013.
“Subway Cars and She-Caves: The Psychic and Physical Geographies of Alice Notley’s The
Descent of Alette,” “Burning the Thread: The Poetics of Digression” seminar, American
Comparitive Literature Association, University of Toronto, Canada, April 2013.
“Poet as Traveler, Investigator and Outsider (On Seiche),” “‘We have left our broken house in
ecstasy’: Ecopoetics Through Travel” panel and roundtable, Conference on Ecopoetics,
University of California – Berkeley, February 2013.
“(Re)visiting Trauma in Memoir,” Making Sense of Suffering, Salzburg, Austria, November 2012.
“‘O, ‘tis pregnant, pregnant!’: An Investigation of Shakespeare’s ‘O’ Through Medicine, Science
and Theory,” “Shakespeare and Related Topics” panel, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language
Association, Seattle University, October 2012.
Invited Talks
“Judging Books by Covers” roundtable with Nouvella Press and Kaya Press, 1888 Center
Summer Writing Project, Orange, California, August 2015.
Caldera High School Youth Workshop, Edwin Brown Education Center, Redmond, Oregon,
March 2015.
Open Press 2014, acting as representative for Ricochet Editions on roundtable with Les Figues
Press, Counterpath Press, and Writ Large Press, Los Angeles, October 2014.
Building Community Panel, Professional Development with Prof. Christine Wertheim,
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, October 2014.
On Death Centos and chapbook publishing, Advanced Arts Workshop with Prof. Amaranth
Borsuk, University of Washington, Bothell, April 2014.
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On Death Centos, Introduction to Poetry Writing Class with Prof. Molly Bendall, University of
Southern California, Los Angeles, November 2013.
“Authority and Boundaries,” Radical Educators Workshop, The Public School, Los Angeles,
September 2013.
Poets & Writers “Meet the Presses & Lit Mags” Literary Roundtable, acting as representative for
Ricochet Editions, The Ruskin Art Club, Los Angeles, May 2013.
Alumni in the World Career Panel, Mediated by Prof. Janet Sarbanes, California Institute of the
Arts, Valencia, May 2013.
Reading and Talk, Board of Trustees Meeting, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, May 2011.
“The Multitasking Muse: What Creative Writers Do After Graduation,” University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, October 2010.
“Dream Poetry Workshop,” 826LA East Tutoring Center, Los Angeles, October 2008.
EDITORIAL & PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE
Poetry Editor and Infidel Poetics Editor, Noemi Press, Mesilla Park, NM, Spring 2014 - present.
Associate Editor and Public Relations Manager, El Aleph Press, New York, Fall 2013.
Founding Member and Managing Editor, Ricochet Editions, Los Angeles, 2012 - present.
Editor-in-Chief, Gold Line Press, Los Angeles, 2012-2013 (rotating position).
Small Press Intern, Les Figues Press, Los Angeles, Fall 2011.
Founding Member and Editorial Staff Member, Gold Line Press, Los Angeles, 2010 - present.
Editorial Assistant, Black Clock, Valencia, CA, 2009-2010.
RELATED PROFESSIONAL & VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Curator, Sumarr Reading Series, Los Angeles, Summer 2010 - present (annual).
Research Assistant, Carol Muske-Dukes, Los Angeles, 2007-2011.
Tutor, 826LA East Tutoring Center, Los Angeles, 2007-2012.
COMMUNITY SERVICES
Member of literary artist in residence selection panel, Caldera Arts Center, Fall 2015.
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DEPARTMENTAL SERVICES
Event Coordinator, USC PhD & Creative Writing Program AWP planning with Kaya Press, Fall
2015 - Spring 2016.
Coordinator, USC Association of English Graduate Students Conference, Energies: Through the
Material, Theoretical and Textual, Fall 2013 - Spring 2014.
Creative Coordinator and Publicity Committee Member, USC Association of English Graduate
Students Conference on Cruelty, Fall 2012 - Spring 2013.
Co-organizer and co-host of The Loudest Voice Reading Series, USC Literature & Creative
Writing, Fall 2012 - present.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Academy of American Poets, American Literary Translators Association, Modern Language
Association, PEN American Center, Poetry Society of America.
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