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Darla (she/they), whose dual passions are writing and teaching, has committed their professional career to supporting students' development as writers and thinkers. At Temple Darla has taught first year writing, multiple creative writing workshops, and a literature class on graphic memoir. Darla has also taught at Maine Maritime Academy and in a diverse array of school, extracurricular, and private tutoring settings. Darla's first foray into higher education administration was as the inaugural coordinator of staff education at Bryn Mawr College, where she helped develop student-taught technology workshops for administrative and service staff members and co-facilitated a variety of learning partnership programs across college constituents. Their own postsecondary education began at Santa Monica College, a community college in their hometown of Los Angeles, continued at Bryn Mawr College, where they earned an AB in English and were certified as a English teacher, and then took them to Drew University, where they earned an MFA in poetry and poetry in translation. For her work in Temple's First Year Writing Program and in other English Department and College of Liberal Arts leadership capacities, Darla was awarded the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in 2018. Darla is proud to have earned their PhD in English from Temple University.

As a writer, Darla's primary identity is as a poet. She is the author Cleave (2021) and the chapbook Flesh Enough (2017), both published by Get Fresh Books, and her poetry, essays, and poetry translations have been published widely. Darla has also published scholarly writing in the fields of English and education, and they have been a finalist for multiple creative nonfiction prizes. In addition to poems, essays, and translations, Darla's current writing projects include writing for young people (picture books and YA) and revising her doctoral dissertation, The Jewish Animal in Post-Holocaust Jewish American Poetry, into a book manuscript. Darla lives in Germantown with their wife, child, and two cats.