​Professional Experience
 
Reality Show Cast, Swap Shop, Netflix                            2019-Present
Johnson City, TN
 
Education

• Creative Writing, Poetry & Fiction, MFA, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Low-Res Program, 2018
• Education Specialist (Ed.S), Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN, December, 2011
• M.Ed. in Counseling/Guidance, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN, December, 2002
• B.A. History, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN, December, 1991
• Linguist certification (Korean), Defense Language Institute, US Army, Monterey, CA
• Middlesboro High School, Middlesboro, KY, 1987

 
Publications / Writing

• Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia, 2007, Overmountain Press
• Working it Off in Labor County, short fiction collection, 2021, West Virginia University Press
• Labor Days, Labor Nights, short fiction collection, 2021, Bottom Dog Press           
• Everyday, Monsters, 2021, co-written with CM Chapman, Unsolicited Press
• Drifting in Awe, full poetry collection
• Grave Robber Confessional, full poetry collection
• Feasts of Evasion, full poetry collection
• Gateless Menagerie, full poetry collection, 2021 

• Voice Hunting, chapbook
• Memory Train, chapbook
• A Little Light in the Grave, co-written poetry collection, Texas Review Press, forthcoming
• New Red Words, poetry collection, Finishing Line Press, forthcoming
• The Wicked Road to Yam Junction, Unsolicited Press, forthcoming

 
Screenplays

• The Lost Bride, short film screenplay, available
• So Many Vampires, feature length screenplay, available
• CLOWN-Z, feature length screenplay, available
• Doll Island (working title), feature length screenplay in works, available 

 
Fine / Performing Arts Involvement
 
Theater

• Importance of Being Earnest (1989)
• Actor’s Nightmare (1990)
• The Mousetrap (2002)
• Ghost of Gettysburg (2003)
• Mass Appeal (2004)
• The Foreigner (2005)
• Greater Tuna (2007)
• The Night of January 16th (2009)
• Mid Summer’s Night Dream (2014)

Musicals

• Oliver! (2003)
• Cabaret (2005)
• Oklahoma! (2011)
• Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let Down Your Heir (2012) 
• You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (2015) 

 
Art

• Art Show: The Cover Up, Dos Gatos Café, Johnson City, TN, month-long show, October 2022
• Art Show: Abstract Vaccinations: Ravenworks Studio, Johnson City, TN, month-long show, June 2022
• Art Show: Full collection, Dos Gatos Café, Johnson City, TN, month-long show, 2019.
• Art Show: Dissociative Space, Nelson Fine Art Gallery, Johnson City, TN, January, 2013
• Art Show: Hybrid Decay, Nelson Fine Art Gallery, Johnson City, TN, July 2011
• Art Show: De-Fragmentation, LMU, 2007 - Mixed mediums and assemblages
• Art Show: Surviving Manic Creativity, LMU, 2004
• Art Show: Artist of the Month: Barnes & Noble, Johnson City, TN, October 2009
• Art Show: Evolving Landscapes, LMU, March-April, 2010
• Art Sales Booth: Nelson Fine Art Gallery, Johnson City, TN, 2008-2014
• Combined art show: Nelson Fine Art, October 2009
• Appalachian Heritage, featured artist (photography), Winter 2011, covers, front and back, total of 15 photos.
• Appalachian Heritage, 40th Anniversary, 2013, past cover photo highlighted.