Publications

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Since 2004, my poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and the in-betweens have been published in several countries (the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, and Romania) and languages (English, German, and Romanian) both online and in print, in: Landing Zone Magazine, Arc Journal – Autumn Edition 2021, Arcana 2022, Arcana 2021, Arcana 2020, Wild Roof Journal, The Poetry Question, Feed, Headline Poetry and Press (here, here, and here), From Whispers to Roars, Wax Poetry and Art, Hypnopomp Magazine, The Ravens Perch, Cease, Cows, Flash Fiction 3, Flash Frontier, 121 words, Friday Flash Fiction, Quail Bell Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Poetry Breakfast, Munich Stories 2016, Dog-Ear, Text+Bild, Tupelo Quarterly, Hopernicus, Liternet (here, here, here, and here), Ora-de-Timis, Other Voices, Evadarea din sine, and elsewhere. 

Awards 

• Red Ribbon Award Winner in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards Contest for my memoir Our Voices

• 1st place in the Text + Bild contest on the topic Borders for my essay Unterwegs

• 2nd place in the Calgary Poetry Contest #1 for the poem if you want to know me

• 1st place in AWCS flash fiction contest with the flash essay Le Maitre

• 1st place in the Other Voices March Monthlies competition with the story The Way Home

Nominations

• Best of the Net Award for my hybrid essay On the Way

Finalist

• Tupelo Quarterly‘s Prose Open Contest with my hybrid essay On the Way

• Gold Line Press Chapbook Contest in the Nonfiction section with my mini-memoir The Body and the Voice 

Short-lists 

• Listowels Writers’ Week Original – Short Story Competition

• In the 20. Münchner Kurzgeschichtenwettbewer for my essay Unterwegs

Long-lists

• Virginia Woolf Competition for Short Fiction for my story Dreaming of Whales

• Disquiet International Program literary contest for my story The Artist

• The Smoke Long Quarterly Kathy Fish Virtual Writer-In-Residence position

Selected Anthologies

• 100x100, 2023 (3 texts accepted; upcoming)

• World’s Best Poems Volume 1, 2019

• Flash Fiction Volume 3, 2017

• Munich Stories 2016, 2016

• Evadarea de sine, 2005

Public Readings

• Monthly Open Reading events of The Munich Readery, Munich, Germany

• Blackbox in Gasteig, Munich, Germany, 2019

• Orangerie Art Gallery in the English Garden, Munich, Germany, during Arcana 2019

• Münchner Literaturbüro (MLb), Munich, Germany, 2019

• P. Bar as part of the Literarisches Sextett, Munich, Germany, 2019

• Frauenforum as part of Creative Writing in Munich‘s Christmas Open Reading, 2016

• The Munich Readery for the Munich Stories 2016 book launch, 2016

• The Owl’s Nest Bookstore, Calgary, AB, Canada, 2011

Teaching Experience​

• Kaleidoscopic Forms at Beyond Form Creative Writing 

• Discovering Your Untamed Voice

• Older offerings:

  • Faculty Member at Sarah Selecky Writing School

    • The Story Intensive and The Story Workshop

    • Read an interview with me about my writing process here

  • Founder and workshop leader of the multicultural group Creative Writing in Munich

Curatorial Experience

• Curator of the literary section of Arcana 2020, an international online digital collaboration comprising work by 40 artists and writers (art curator and overall curator: Hazel Ang)

Editorial Experience

• Former reader and editor of flash fiction at Flash Fiction Magazine

Professional Memberships

• She Writes

• AWP (The Association of Writers and Writing Programs)