Writing Workshops

• Tin House Summer Workshop at Reed College – Novel Writing with Dinaw Mengestu, 2014
• Novel in a Year at StoryStudio Chicago with Rebecca Makkai, 2013-2014
• The Craft of Novel Writing at StoryStudio Chicago, Fall 2010
• Ragdale Writing Retreat with StoryStudio (Summers 2010, 2015 participant; Fall 2015 as facilitator)
• Comedy writing & performance (Levels 1 & 2) with Cameron Esposito at Feminine Comique / Lincoln Lodge, 2009

Awards and Publications

• Winner, 2019 Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction Essays, Hippocampus Magazine
  
• Writer’s Residency, Ragdale Foundation, 2018
• On Landscapes and Hidden Treasures at Ragdale (Cooler by the Lake blog, September 2015)
• Lessons from the Summit (Lake Effects, 2010)
• Senior Prize, Latin American Studies for historical fiction novella (Lake Forest College, 2004)

Speaking

• “Using Qualitative and Quantitative Research to Understand and Support Your Members” at Council of Medical Specialty Societies Annual Meeting (co-presenter, November 2022)
• “How Hamilton Revolutionized the Message: When Music is the Means to Communicate” at Northwestern University (moderator, May 2018)
• “B the Change: Chicago Entrepreneurs Discuss B Corporations and Designing Careers With Integrity” at Northwestern University (organizer/moderator, 2013)
• “Around Ragdale Ring: The Life and Work of Frances Wells Shaw” at Lake Forest – Lake Bluff Historical Society (lecturer, 2004)