University of California, Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA | January 2018 – June 2024
Instructor of Record
LIT 90 Introduction to Creative Writing | Winter 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
LIT 91A Intermediate Fiction and Prose Writing | Spring 2018, Fall 2020
LIT 164K Jewish Comedy: “Funny Girls,” 100 Years of Jewish American Women Writers and Performers | Summer 2021
Guest Lecturer
LIT 90 Introduction to Creative Writing | Fall 2017
LIT 164G Literature and the Holocaust: The Question of Auschwitz: Literature and Annihilation | Summer 2023
LIT 164J Jewish Writers and the American City: New York | Spring 2019
LIT 190Y Topics in Jewish Literature and Culture: Jewish Comedy | Fall 2018
Event Instructor
Introduction to Poetry Writing Workshop | Spring 2019
Apocalyptic Fiction Writing Workshop | Winter 2019
Teaching Assistant
LIT 61J Introduction to Jewish Literature and Culture | 2 sections | Winter 2020
LIT 80Q Jane the Virgin: Latinx Readers and the (Latin) American Literature | 2 sections | Spring 2019
LIT 80Y Harry Potter | 2 sections | Fall 2023
Tutor at the Westside/Eastside Writing Center | Winter 2020 – Spring 2022
Mentored undergraduate and graduate students in all aspects and phases of scholastic writing, including successful grant and fellowship applications
Line-edited undergraduate and graduate scholastic writing in all disciplines
Supported Latinx graduate student researchers one-on-one at weekend writing retreats run by the Lionel Cantú Queer Center
Boston College | Chestnut Hill, MA | March 2022
Guest Lecturer
Jewish Media, Arts, and Culture | Spring 2022
University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | September 2018
Guest Lecturer
THEATER R1B Transmedia Storytelling | Fall 2018
University of California, Berkeley Extension | Berkeley and San Francisco, CA | November 2015 – December 2017
Instructor of Record
ENGLISH X436 Short Story Masterpieces | Fall 2017
ENGLISH X440 Intermediate Fiction Writing | Spring 2017
ENGLISH X464 Introduction to Writing Fiction | Fall 2016
ENGLISH X467 Great Novels You Always Meant to Read | Spring 2016, Summer 2016, Summer 2017
Gotham Writers Workshop | New York, NY | December 2011 – September 2021
Instructor of Record
Open House Fiction Course | 4 sections in person | Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Winter 2015
Write In | 17 sections in person and 32 sections online | Spring 2014, Summer 2014, Fall, 2014, Winter 2015, Summer 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Summer 2021
One-Day Fiction Intensive | 5 sections in person | Summer 2013, Winter 2014, Summer 2014
Creative Writing 101 | 2 sections in person and 2 sections online | Spring 2012, Winter 2013, Winter 2015, Spring 2015
Reading Fiction | 1 section | Fall 2016
Designed and developed online curriculum content still in use today
Poetry I | 1 section in person | Winter 2014
Fiction I | 7 sections in person and 6 sections online | Winter 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2012, Winter 2013, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Winter 2016, Spring 2016
Fiction II | 7 sections in person | Fall 2012, Winter 2013, Spring 2013, Summer 2013, Winter 2014, Spring 2014
Novel II | 5 sections in person and 4 sections online | Winter 2013, Spring 2013, Summer 2013, Summer 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Summer 2015, Fall 2015, Winter 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2016
Independent Study: Fiction I | 2 sections in person and 2 sections online | Winter 2013, Summer 2014, Spring 2017
Independent Study: Short Story Doctoring | 2 sections in person and 1 section online | Summer 2013, Summer 2015
Independent Study: Novel Doctoring | 10 sections | Winter 2013, Summer 2013, Winter 2014, Fall 2014, Winter 2015, Spring 2015, Summer 2016, Winter 2017, Summer 2018
Independent Study: Mentorship | 12 sections | Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Spring 2019
Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library New York Chapter| New York, NY | 2012 – 2014
Literary Event Facilitator
Bryant Park Reading Room | New York, NY | June 2012
Instructor of Record
Poetry Workshop | 1 section in person | Summer 2012
American University | Washington, DC | January – May 2009
Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Creative Writing | 1 section | Spring 2009
Los Angeles Human Relations Commission | Los Angeles, CA | June 2006
Peer Mediation Instructor for Inner-City High School Students
University Synagogue | Los Angeles, CA | 2002 – 2006
Teaching Assistant for Hebrew and Judaica Classes