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COURSES TAUGHT

COURSES TAUGHT

University of Arkansas 

  • Composition I 

  • Composition II 

  • Creative Writing I 

  • Creative Writing II 

  • World Literature 1: Beginnings to 1650 CE 

CONFERENCES

  • “Renaming the Ancestral Body in Kama La Mackerel’s ZOM-FAM.” Practicing the Indian Ocean: Crossings, Memories, and Bodies, Université de La Réunion, Saint-Denis. 23 November 2022.

AWARDS

  • Sturgis International Fellowship – 2022 - awarded by the Univ. of Arkansas for literary research in La Réunion

  • Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) in Urdu – 2022 -onsite at American Institute of Indian Studies, Lucknow

  • CD Wright/Academy of American Poets Prize for “Believe Me” – 2022 – selected by Gary Jackson

  • Pushcart Prize Nomination in Poetry by Cream City Review for "Manifest My Throat as Tender" – 2022

  • Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Award - Semi-finalist for the Scotti Merrill Award in Poetry - 2022

  • Pushcart Prize Nomination in Fiction by Northwest Review for "All the Loving." 

  • 2021 Best of the Net Nomination by Funicular Magazine for "Dinner" - 2021

  • Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) in Hindi - 2021

  • Felix McKean Memorial Award for Poetry - selected by Tobias Wray - 2021

  • Lily Peter Fellow at Univ. of Arkansas - selected by Sy Hoahwah - 2020-21

  • Carolyn F. Walton Cole Fellow at Univ. of Arkansas - selected by Sarah Vap - 2020-21

  • J. Chester and Freda S. Johnson Fellow at Univ. of Arkansas- faculty select - 2019-20

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