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About me

I graduated summa cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point in May of 2010. My BA is in Theatre Arts, with minors in Spanish and Creative Writing.

In the fall, I'll be starting graduate school working toward an MFA.

I have been published in small non-profit publications including newspapers and poetry collections, and have sold a few articles here on Helium.

I have training in business writing as well as the creative side of things.

In addition to writing I enjoy ballroom dancing. I also hold a first degree black belt in Taekwondo, and volunteer leading children's classes twice a week.

Briefly me

My passion is ...

Writing. And cashews. I love me some cashews.

My childhood ambition ...

To never grow up.

Why I write ...

Our lives are stories

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Carolyn Kizer/ The Office/ Many, Many Things

My inspiration ...

Everything's inspiring.

Featured article by Aisling Ash

Arts & Humanities > Writing Tips A guide to scansion in poetry: 1 of 1

Though most modern poetry is written in free verse, it can be helpful for poets to have an understanding of metered verse even if they don’t choose to write in it. After all, the more you know of the craft, the more options available to express your art. When a poem is written in meter, it is helpful to know scansion to help you with mapping and analyzing the meter that you’re using. What is scansion? Scansion is a way to analyze and classify English meters in poetry. It is done by marking a poem with stressed and unstressed syllables, and then analyzing the p...
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