In my junior year of high school, I joined a group of young writers from across my hometown called Student Literary Alliance of Nashville, Tennessee. This group was invaluable for my development as a writer, in that it gave me access to other young artists with whom I could collaborate and receive feedback, as well as monthly workshops which gave me new skills to incorporate into my writing (indeed, the facilitator of this group, Joe Kane, became my writing mentor, and I'm still close to him.)

I've written both poetry and non-fictional reviews of art, movies, and books for my college's biweekly magazine The Reed Grail, and I previously wrote poetry and prose fiction for my high school's literary magazine as well. While I enjoy writing in a variety of genres -- including comedy, fantasy, and realistic fiction -- science fiction and horror are the genres in which I most frequently work, and I plan to start submitting more of my work to professional magazines within those genres.