MULTIMEDIA ARTIST

EDUCATION
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NJ -Newark, NJ, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing September 2010 to May 2014
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY-Upper Montclair, NJ, Bachelor of Arts in English, minor in Women’s Studies, September 2000 to May 2005

PUBLICATIONS
I Sing to That Bird Knowing He Won’t Sing Back., Finishing Line Press. May 2017.
Save The Bathwater., Get Fresh Books. May 2018.
Assistant Editor of No Tender Fences: An Anthology of Immigrant & First-Generation American Poetry., Gumroad. 2019.

REVIEWS
The Rumpus. Making Absence Present: Save the Bathwater. Reviewed by Carla Sofia Ferreira. June 2019.
Rhino. Save the Bathwater. Reviewed by DM O’Connor.
The Collagist. Save the Bathwater. Reviewed by Michael Van Calbergh.
Entropy. The House Avos Build. Reviewed by Dimitri Reyes. June 2019.
The Quarterly Conversation. Save the Bathwater. Reviewed by Max Grey.

ART EXHIBITIONS
May-June 2016 Group Exhibition, Ironbound Portugal Day Art Exhibit 2016, Ironbound Cultural Center: Shiman’s Gallery, Newark, NJ
October 2017 Group Exhibition, LEVITATE, 2017 Newark Open Doors Art Festival, Gallery 211, 211 Halsey Street, Newark, NJ (curated by Femme Curator Arts Danielle Scott and Kween Moore)
October 2017 Group Exhibition, Newark at the Intersections: Who is the Renaissance For? Newark Open Doors Art Festival, Living Incubator Performance Space {LIPS}: Gateway Project Spaces, Newark, NJ (curated by Lillian Ribeiro and Daniel Wiley)
May-June 2018 Group Exhibition, Portugal Day Art & Culture Exhibit 2018, Ironbound Cultural Center: Shiman’s Gallery, Newark, NJ
October 2018 Group Exhibition, THE WOMB, 2018 Newark Open Doors Art Festival, 45 Halsey Street, Newark, NJ (curated by Femme Curator Arts Danielle Scott and Kween Moore)
November 2018 Group Exhibition, Small Works, West Orange arts Council, West Orange, NJ
February 2019 Group Exhibition, Divine Feminist, ArtFront Galleries, Newark, NJ (curated by Janet Morgan)
May 2019 Group Exhibition, OUT/Loud: A Pre-Pride Art Pop-Up, ArtFront Galleries, Newark, NJ (curated by Raphael Cuello)
June 2019 Group Exhibition, Mirror, Mirror, ArtFront Galleries, Newark, NJ (curated by Susan O?Rourke and Janet Morgan)
June 2019 Group Exhibition, OUT/SIDE, West Orange Public Library, West Orange, NJ (curated by Ricardo Francis)
July 2019 Curator of Group Exhibition, The Future is Feminist, West Orange Arts Center, West Orange, NJ
February 2020 Group Exhibition, Access and Opportunity, Diversity and Inclusion, Monmouth University Arts Center, West Long Branch, NJ
April 2020 Group Exhibition, DISSONANCE, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ

ORGANIZATIONS/AFFILIATIONS
2014-present Member of ‘Brick City Collective’, a multicultural, multimedia collective based in Newark, NJ
2015-present Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation: High School Mini-Poetry Festival Visiting Poet

REFERENCES
References upon request