I graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville with a Masters of Arts in Teaching and a Bachelor's of Arts in English. I am a CRLA Certified Tutor and have educated from k-12, secondary and post secondary. I specialize in the learning of the English language and the art of writing. Outside of academia, I dabble in the art of music production and poetry. I coach soccer and frequent museums.

My content area deals with the English language and the reading and writing within it. Literature, as Robert Scholes puts it,
"is not merely an academic experience, but a way of accepting the fact that our lives are of limited duration and that whatever satisfaction we achieve in life must come though our strength of our engagement with what is around us. We do well to read our lives with the same intensity we develop from learning to read our texts."