About

Thanks for stopping by. It’s always a little weird to try to explain what it is, exactly, that I write about, because half the time it doesn’t even make any sense to me. Someone once said my work was, “wry, dry, make you cry,” another described it as “making something from nothing” and then there are all kinds of people who probably think I’m a complete wacko for writing about the things I do— death, grief, buried family secrets, shapeshifting identities and other misfortunes— and finding it all endlessly entertaining and hilarious. Anyway, I guess what I do is take the messy stuff and attempt to turn it into something else.

You can find my work in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Amazon Original Stories, Assay, Fourth Genre, The Rumpus, Barzakh, and elsewhere, and my memoir-in-progress was awarded the 2021 First Pages Prize/Sandra Carpenter Prize for Creative Nonfiction. I hold a MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars, a BA from Smith College in American Studies and teach creative writing both independently and at Hugo House in Seattle.