Writing has appeared in The Cut, McSweeney's, Lightspeed Magazine, The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, and other publications. She is a 2016 Whiting Award winner and the recipient of a Hermitage artist residency as well as grants from MacDowell and the Elizabeth George Foundation. SLC, 2025–
Graduate Courses 2025-2026
Master of Fine Arts in Writing
Speculative Fiction Workshop: This God-Awful Feeling: Dread Across Genres
Seminar—Spring
WRIT 7452
“I feel like something bad is going to happen to me. I feel like something bad has happened. It hasn't reached me yet but it's on its way.” —Lake Mungo (2008)
In this workshop, we will explore the topic of dread in fiction. Dread is incredibly powerful and multifaceted: It is both anticipation and fear, attraction and repulsion. On the page, dread can manifest as anything from a subtle mood of disquiet to a gorily ostentatious splash of horror. We will read stories from writers such as Donald Barthelme, Lisa Tuttle, ’Pemi Aguda, Tony Tulathimutte, and Nathan Ballingrud to learn how they evoke dread masterfully, in a variety of ways, and discuss craft techniques and thematic approaches to imbuing our own work with dread. While some of the reading list can be classified as horror, this class is genre-agnostic. We will follow dread anywhere it is to be found; and, luckily for us, it can be found everywhere.