Savannah, GA. Cormac McCarthy Society Conference. Presented a paper entitled “Outer Dark and the Dismissing of Responsibility as a Purgatorial Plane.”

Continued writing mentorship with novelist Jarret Middleton.

2021 Dzanc Books Mentorship Program.  Mentored by novelist Jarret Middleton.

2019 The Yokshop.  Oxford, Mississippi.  Conference Director: M.O. Walsh.  Keynote Speaker: William Boyle.

2019 Blue Ridge Writers’ Conference.  Blue Ridge, Georgia.  Keynote Speaker: Thomas Mullen.

Spalding University’s MFA Community Workshop (Fall 2018).  Louisville, Kentucky.  Workshop Leader: Silas House.

Continued bi-weekly writer critiques with the SCWA.

Western Carolina University. BA in English.