Editorial, Curatorial, & Producer Projects

  • Issue Editor – Edible L.A., Spring 2025 & Summer 2025 issues

  • Newsletter Editor — Edible L.A. (2024-2025)

  • Producer – Edible L.A. Summer 2025; produced Molly Baz cover photo shoot

  • Co-Curator – Gold Room, New Orleans monthly live literary series (2022–2023)

  • Writer / Researcher – The Birthplace of Brunch exhibit, Southern Food and Beverage Museum (Oct 2021)

  • Writer / Co-Designer – Mezcal Playing Cards, Chulita Hospitality

  • Editor / Curator – Seconds archival series (2019-2020)

  • Editor / Co-Founder – 4AM Zine (2019) with Stephanie Chen, Crystal Slonecker, Rebecca Tosdevin, and Jasper Sortun

  • Recipe Editor – Growing Perennial Foods, Stone Pier Press (2018)

  • Producer – Okay Samaritans web series (2018)

Teaching & Panels

  • Workshop Leader – “Evoking the Senses,” Third Lantern Lit (Aug 2024, Sept 2023)

  • Panelist – “Seeking Nourishment: Writing Food,” University of New Orleans (Nov 2023)

  • Moderator – “Consciousness and Being in Women’s Poetry,” MELUS Journal Conference (March 2021)

Residencies

  • Sewanee Fiction Participant – Summer 2025 (Accepted, unable to attend)

  • Woodward Residency – Guest Resident, Spring 2024

  • Fiction Resident – Under the Volcano, Tepotzlán, Mexico with Sabrina Orah Mark (Jan 2023)

Awards

  • Svenson Prize Honorable Mention, judged by Gwen E. Kirby; American Short Fiction Halifax Ranch Prize Semi-Finalist “Bozikas” 2023

  • American Short Fiction Halifax Ranch Prize Semi-Finalist judged by R.O. Kwon “Hunger” 2021

  • Pushcart Prize Nominee “I Carry My Weight in Groceries” 2021

Culinary & Hospitality

  • All-Around – Bar Pomona, New Orleans; first hire, did it all! Pastry, bar, FOH, and line (2021-occasional present day!)

  • Assistant Pastry – La Petite Grocery, New Orleans (2020-2021)

  • Pastry Chef – Chulita (2018-2020)

  • Co-Founder / Baker – Kin Bakery pop-ups, with Stephanie Chen, Crystal Slonecker, Rebecca Tosdevin (2019)

    • L.A. Times Food Forward Participants

  • Baker / Assistant Pastry – Rustic Canyon Restaurant Group, Little Dom’s (2016-2019)

Other Production

  • Production crew for shows on Netflix, IFC, Comedy Central, CBS, documentary The Art of Unwar, and independent projects (2014-2018)