From 1996 to 2025, I taught writing, rhetoric, and dark academia as a faculty member, graduate TA, and writing center tutor at an assortment of universities.
I also served in administrative positions while co-authoring the first-year writing textbook Read, Reason, Write: An Argument Text and Reader published by McGraw-Hill.
Along the way, I co-authored Partners in Literacy: A Writing Center Model for Civic Engagement published by Bloomsbury and co-edited Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education published by Apprentice House Press. My work has also been featured in academic journals and edited collections.
Outside the academy I’ve worked as a technical writer for the federal government and as an independent contractor. If you’re interested in learning more, visit my About page.
In 2025, I stepped away from higher education for a spell to focus on my fiction writing, which was as much of a surprise to me as it was to everyone else. But the story had to be told; it would not be silent.
Fiction in Progress
The Mage’s Mantra
A Question of Faith Book I
by H. A. Brizee
The Mage’s Mantra is an adult dark academia/urban fantasy novel about Faith Marie Anne Baptista, a young, mixed-race woman struggling to find her identity, solve the mystery of her friend’s death, and unravel the divine secrets of her world.
"A dark academia book like you’ve never read.” - M. L. Rio, second round beta reader and author of If We Were Villains and Night Shift
Querying agents now.
Read more about The Mage’s Mantra and the Question of Faith trilogy here.
Latest Non-Fiction
Read, Reason, Write
An Argument Text and Reader, 13e
By Dorothy U. Seyler and Allen Brizee
Read, Reason, Write shows students how reading, argument, research, and analysis are interrelated and how these skills combine to develop each student's critical-thinking ability.
Fourteenth edition due out in January 2027.
Banner Photo Credit: Gladstone Library, 12-9-2019, Michael D. Beckwith