EDUCATION
MFA Creative Writing & Poetics | Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University | Boulder, Colo. | 2019–2021
M.DIV. | Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University | New York, New York | 2013-2016
BA English and Philosophy | Columbia Union College | Takoma Park, Md. | 2008-2013
AWARDS
Washington Prize (Neon Hymn, Semifinalist) | Word Works | 2023
Writing Fellowship | Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University | 2019–2021
Greg Grummer Poetry Prize judged by Brian Teare | phoebe | 2015
Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society | 2013
Joseph Shin Award for Creativity | Washington Adventist University | 2013
PUBLICATIONS
CHAPBOOK
Excavating the Sky | Dialogue Foundation Books | 2015
POETRY
“Painting in the Birch Field” | The Adroit Journal | 2023
“Take Me to Peacock Alley” | Witness | 2023
“Circuits of Data and Light” | Small Orange | 2023
“Oysters and Poetry,” “Hymn for Aphrodite, Goddess of Copper and Oranges” | Violet Indigo Blue, Etc.
“Money is Winter,” “The Call,” “Vow” | Tahoma Literary Review, issue 23 | 2023
“Whiteboyjeezus” | Passengers Journal | 2022
“Materials for a Post-Soviet Film” | Jet Fuel Review | 2022
“Invocation,” “One Day on El Campo” | Taos Journal of International Poetry and Art | 2019
“Fear-torn” | Spillway | 2018
“Spacetime Continuum,” “Thorns Becoming Leaves,” “Olorun” | Ghost Town | 2018
“Distances" | Exposition Review | 2017
“It is here” and “Dream Fragment” | Tule Review | 2016
“Keats by Glenmont Metro" | Phoebe | 2015
“Where People Move and Find Their Being" | Harvard Journal of African American Policy | 2015
“Excavating the Sky" | The Christian Century | 2013
“To Lanley Park” |Tidal Basin Review | 2011
“If We Burn them Altogether” | We’re only standing on the shore | Eksmo Press | 2012
TRANSLATION
“Stop the Mirror” | Pocket Samovar | 2020
“When Windows Shut Like Eyes” | Pocket Samovar | 2020
“This Poem is Asking For Your Love” | Loch Raven Review | 2019
ESSAY
Creativity and Time | Culturala Journal | 2021
INTERVIEWS & TALKS
“An Interview with Konstantin Kulakov by Aubrey King” | Terse Journal | 2023
“Pocket Samovar: Interview with Konstantin Kulakov, Founding Editor, by Alex Karsavin” | Punctured Lines | 2021
EXPERIENCE
Co-Founding Editor | Pocket Samovar | 2019-present
Writing Consultant | Naropa University | 2019-2021
TEACHING
Theological Perspectives of Human Nature | Washington Adventist University | Online | Spring 2022
COR110 Writing Seminar II | Naropa University | Online | Fall 2020
Language as Play (Guest Lecture) | Washington Adventist University | In-person| Fall 2019
READINGS
Sahar Muradi, Genya Turovskaya, Konstantin Kulakov | Cozmos, New York, New York | 2023
Taylor Johnson ft. Simon Shieh, Konstantin Kulakov, and Victoria Newton Ford | The Nicholson Project, Washington, DC | 2022
What / Where ft. Marwa Helal and Xandria Phillips | “Zoom” | 2020
Bombay Gin Release and Open Mic | Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, Boulder, Colo. | 2019
A Celebration of the Life and Poetry of Anya Krugovoy Silver | Hudson Valley Writers Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York | 2019
Percussion 4 People | Galeria de Barrio, New York, New York | 2019
A Taste of Russia | Sligo SDA Church, Takoma Park, Maryland | 2017
Exposition Review Launch Party | Chevalier's Books, Los Angeles, Ca. | 2017
Thrive: An Artist Showcase | Eve Lounge, New York, New York | 2017
A Spiritual Soiree | Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, New York | 2017
Takoma Park International Evening of Poetry | Takoma Park Community Center, Takoma Park, Md. | 2016
Music: All Souls Day | Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C. | 2016
Excavating the Sky Launch Party | Judson Memorial Church, New York, New York | 2016