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Fiction · Essays · Poetry
A speculative story following a forensic mnemonist whose work is to inhabit other people’s memories but finds himself trapped outside of his own. Clinical calm, grief, and the ethics of retrieval collide in a lab built to feel almost like home.
A YA lesbian romance set in a fictional South Carolina beach town, where brash Maisie Williams and Ellen Sharpe become unlikely friends, fall in love, and push back against the small-town ideas that surround them.
A lone caretaker maintains a derelict oil rig turned survivalist outpost, fishing, coaxing vegetables from salvaged soil, and typing unanswered messages into a dead telegraph until an unnatural stillness in the sea suggests she was never quite as alone as the silence let her believe.
“What I Really Mean To Say Is…” is an excerpt from a full-length novel about a queer romance between Tommy Mulligan, a gas station clerk who is tired living of his closedminded small town, and Neil Paget, a veteran turned trucker that agrees to help his friend out of a tight spot - only to find a scrappy young man in need of a ride across the country... the same way he's going.
An essay on how SFF frames neurodivergence through animalistic and “feral” imagery — reading dehumanization, Foucault, and genre narrative as linked systems of othering and desire.
A coined word from Greek roots for “same,” “knowing,” and “sickness” anchors this poem about the restlessness of repetition and identity, rendered in fire, ash, and mythic imagery.
An elegy for a deer that vanished into the snow after a mountain lion took after it, and a memory of my father.
Archives · Retrieval · Metadata
A comparative EDIA content audit of Horry County Memorial Library’s website before and after redesign tracking the discoverability of diversity, accessibility, language access, and community service resources.
A PolicyMap-informed accessibility assessment of FCPL’s digital presence, pairing county demographics (disability, age, language) with WCAG-minded recommendations for Spanish support, navigation, and inclusive design.
Open Website Accessibility Assessment for Forsyth County Public Library
A free, recurring workshop series proposed for McDowell County Public Library offering computer basics, email, job search, and resume support for working-age adults, timed to evening hours and shaped by rural broadband gaps and post-Helene recovery needs.
Open Foothills Forward: Digital Literacy & Workforce Readiness Lab
A LibGuide for Forsyth County Public Library patrons on low-cost, low-effort gardening (chaos gardening, no-dig beds, and container vegetables) built for renters, beginners, and Spanish-speaking patrons with no yard, budget, or experience required.
An interactive Twine tutorial on how AI systems retrieve and present information, walking patrons through data bias, training, and why “checking the answer” means more than right vs. wrong.
A mini-game prototype built in MIT App Inventor for an Emerging Tech Trends course that explores figurative-learning competencies through playful interaction, grounded in AASL and ISTE student standards.
A practical guide to reading and annotating systematic-review search strategies in PubMed and Ovid MEDLINE, including MeSH, keywords, full-text workflows, and tip-sheet support developed during a medical librarian internship.
Open Search Annotation Guide · WFU Baptist Medical Center Library
An action-research look at digital holds and wait times in Libby paired with findings on ebook availability, demand, and patron wait patterns.
A library-history presentation on shifting information landscapes including the move from “user in the life of the library” to “library in the life of the user,” and intellectual freedom’s turn from wholesome guidance toward the right to read.
A structured tracker for housing modifications, safety needs, contacts, and case status under NC Medicaid CAP/DA, built to keep complex resource work findable, prioritized, and actionable across caregivers and advocates.
Side-by-side comparison of HCML’s legacy vs. redesigned homepage across representation, discoverability, institutional visibility, community orientation, accessibility, and language access.
PolicyMap-informed visual framing of disability, aging, and Spanish-language populations across Forsyth County as evidence for FCPL website accessibility priorities.
Instructional tip sheet supporting PubMed and Ovid search annotation for systematic review workflows during the medical librarian internship.
Ovid MEDLINE search history for a "Wilderness Medicine" systematic review, showing subject-heading lines combined with a proximity/keyword line annotated to teach comprehensive search construction.
Annotated MeSH record for "Wilderness Medicine," walking through subheadings, tree number, and entry terms to show how controlled vocabulary maps onto a search strategy.
Visuals from the Foothills Forward program materials, demonstrating the process of finding and applying to a job online, broken into identify, research, resume prep, and application steps.
A slide from Information Landscapes on the turn from “user in the life of the library” to “library in the life of the user,” and intellectual freedom’s move from wholesome guidance to protecting the right to read.
Professional roles and supporting projects that sit behind the public writing catalog.
Evaluated 30–50 novel excerpts and short stories annually in specialized writing workshops, focusing on commercial trade genres (Romance, Speculative Fiction, Fantasy). Provided developmental feedback and structural notes on pacing, character stakes, narrative escalation, world-building logic, and line-level voice. Authored full publishing suites, including professional reader’s reports, agent-style pitch letters, manuscript evaluations, and developmental memos.
Evaluated an annual submission pool of 150–200 literary and visual art submissions for an award-winning student magazine. Executed pre-press production using Adobe InDesign, handling page layout, visual-text pairing, final copyediting, proofreading, and galley management under CMOS/AP standards. Managed contributor correspondence, documentation, and submission tracking for a campus literary magazine.
Standardized internal communications by creating 60+ original email templates, establishing brand consistency and messaging clarity. Authored and edited monthly peer-to-peer newsletters distributed to 500+ staff members while serving on the Diversity & Inclusion Council.
Conducted systematic literature searches and scoping reviews using controlled vocabularies and documented search protocols. Managed citation libraries and reproducible research documentation in EndNote and Covidence for 20+ evidence syntheses. Translated complex database tools into clear instructional materials, including a health sciences database tip sheet and annotated search guide.
Maintained patient records and deadline-driven documentation for five medical groups. Researched health information and coordinated communications across healthcare teams, state agencies, and family members.
Created original marketing plans, social media posting templates, reader’s reports, and promotional suites tailored for literary and academic audiences.
Designed and launched a self-hosted WordPress digital portfolio displaying fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and curated industry calls for submission and upcoming releases.
Designed an annotated search guide for WFU Baptist clinicians to systematically reproduce search strategies across biomedical databases.