In May 2020, I received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida, with a specialization in Rhetoric & Writing Studies, where I was awarded a Preeminence Fellowship and a Doctoral Dissertation Award. My scholarly articles have appeared in journals such as Enculturation, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and Kairos, and they have been recognized by CCCC/NCTE's 2020 Best Article on Philosophy or Theory of Technical or Scientific Communication, Honorable Mention for the 2022 ARSTM Article of the Year Award, the Schachterle Prize from the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, and CCCC/NCTE's 2022 Best Article on Pedagogy or Curriculum in Technical or Scientific Communication. I am author of Inventing Ecosystems: The Rhetoric of Science in an Ecological Age (Palgrave, 2026) and co-editor of Rhetorical Ecologies (NCTE, 2024) and Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature (Bloomsbury, 2015).

My poetry collections are Losing the Dog (Salmon Poetry, forthcoming) and Reflections on the Dark Water (Solomon & George, 2016). Individual poems have appeared in journals such as The Southern Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, The Greensboro Review and in anthologies including Mountains Piled upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene (WVUP, 2019) and A Tether to this World: An Anthology of Mental Health Recovery Stories (Main Street Rag, 2021). I was awarded the 2021 Poetry Fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and a 2020 writing residency at Wolff Cottage as part of an award from the Fairhope Center for Writing Arts, as well as previous awards from the Academy of American Poets and a Literary Award from the F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum.

In addition to my scholarship and creative writing, I am founder and director of the DWELL Lab at URI, where I apply my research to develop grant-funded digital projects for public advocacy and to provide high-impact experiences for my science and environmental writing courses. I serve on the editorial boards for the scholarly journals Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy and POROI: Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry, the book series Ecological Rhetorics from Michigan State UP, as well as the advisory boards for the URI Center for Humanities and the SciComm in the Parks program (sponsored by the Ecological Society of America and the National Parks Service).

As both a poet and a digital maker, I am as at home working with line breaks as I am lines of code. Before coming to URI, I was founder and editor-in-chief of Kudzu House Quarterly, a journal of environmental writing and scholarship (now archived at the Institutional Repository at the University of Florida). At UF, I served as an Augmented Reality Criticisms (or ARCs) Coordinator for Trace Innovation, a digital rhetoric initiative at UF, through which I consulted with faculty and graduate students in the development of digital projects, organized digital humanities conferences, and coordinated workshops geared toward undergraduate research. I also served as a Smathers Graduate Intern in Emerging Technologies, creating workshops and tutorials for the UF Marston Science Library's Mobile App Development Environment (MADE@UF) Lab.