About

Raised on the shores of Lake Washington and a competitive swimmer throughout most of my childhood, I spent most of my time in or near the water. Now, as a Seattle-based community organizer, writer and visual artist, my work explores themes around above and below.

Though my writing may be considered “darkly humorous” (as they say in literary circles) excavating the complex landscapes inherent within grief and family secrets, I have written a bazillion mainstream pieces for newspapers and magazines, and spent over twenty years in children’s media as an editor and content producer.

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.