I am a writer, editor, teacher, and mentor.

I served as Chair of the English Department at an alternative high school in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I taught English to grades 8-12. My academic journey includes an MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington Writing Seminars, an MA in American Studies from Brown University, where I am ABD, and a BA in History and Women’s Studies from Hunter College (CUNY), from which I graduated summa cum laude.

My creative work spans multiple publications including the Bennington Review, Enizagam, Four Chambers, and The Manifest-Station. My short story “Tell Me About Her” received a 2013 Pushcart Prize nomination in fiction, and my poem “Amy Winehouse is Dead” published in Literary Mama (May/June 2022) was nominated for a 2022 Pushcart Prize in poetry.

My essay “Indelible Moments” on Willa Cather’s My Ántonia appeared in the Willa Cather Review (Spring 2019). Additional poetry can be found in Club Plum‘s Literary Horror Issue (October 2021) .

I’ve participated in prestigious writing programs including the Napa Valley Writers’ Workshop (2014), a workshop with Dorothy Allison (2015), and The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop for Teachers (2018) as a scholarship recipient. I’ve also served as a reader for The Tishman Review‘s Tillie Olsen Short Story Award and as a judge for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (2018-2020).

I am currently working on a novel.