Portfolio

Selected Publications

Chapbooks

• Stage Fright, Leveled Lit Libraries Utah Series ed. Theresa Kay (Gibbs Smith Education, 2022).

• One Light, Leveled Lit Libraries Virginia Series ed. Theresa Kay (Gibbs Smith Education, 2022).

Nonfiction essays

• “The Freaks Lead at Halftime,” The Misfit Anthology: 2015 (Misfit Press, Vancouver, 2015).

• “Museums In Your Pocket: Digital Storytelling in Museums,” Storytelling In Museums ed. Adina Langer (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).

 INTERVIEWS

• “Conversation with Ada Limón,” The Adroit Journal (The University of Pennsylvania Press) 14 (spring 2016).

• “A Conversation with Jamie Mortara,” The Adroit Journal (The University of Pennsylvania Press) 12 (summer 2015).

• “A Conversation with Matthew Dickman,” The Adroit Journal (The University of Pennsylvania Press) 10 (winter 2015).

• “A Conversation with Stephanie Burt,” The Adroit Journal (The University of Pennsylvania Press) 9 (summer, 2014).

  • Nominated, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014

  • Featured on NPR’s weekly roundup

Selected Articles

• For Columbia City of Women

  • Hilla Sheriff, MD

  • Fannie Phelps Adams

  • Keller Henderson Bumgardner Barron

  • Alice Norwood Spearman Wright

• For Atlanta History Center

  • Unwavering, Unyielding, Uncompromising: Ethel Mae Matthews

  • The Barb Brings ATL’s Queer Culture Online

  • Black Women’s Fight for Suffrage

  • A History of Pride Parades in Atlanta

  • Suffrage in the South: 100 Years Later

  • Extraordinary Objects: Museum Artifacts and the Acquisition Process

  • Atlanta 50 Years After Stonewall

• #TBT, a collaboration between Historic Columbia and COLAToday

  • Columbia’s Lost Landscapes (Urban renewal in South Carolina’s capital city)

  • Cornwell Tourist Home (Columbia + The Green Book)

  • Who remembers Rockafellas’? The making of Five Points (Getting to Know Your Neighborhood)

  • What happened when you died in Cola in 1861? (Funerals + penitentiaries in 19th-century Columbia)

  • Cola’s matriarch of Civil Rights (Who is Modjeska Monteith Simkins?)

  • Duke Ellington slept here (Getting to Know Your Neighborhood, Waverly)

• “Restore, Don’t Replace Your Old Windows,” Columbia Star, March 15, 2019.

• “Jubilee Turns 40,” Columbia Star, September 21, 2018.

• “Raising the Arcade: Columbia’s Forgotten Underground Era,” Garnet & Black Magazine, Winter 2016.

• “As Yet Untold: The reinterpretation of the Mann-Simons Site,” Garnet & Black Magazine, Fall 2016.