About

Writer. Storyteller. Brand strategist. Creative troublemaker.

I’m a Seattle-based writer, editor, storyteller, and creative strategist who likes making something from nothing. You might also find me shaking my butt in the middle of the street.

Over the course of my career, I’ve worked across journalism, publishing, entertainment, digital media, brand strategy, marketing, content, and community engagement. I’ve been an entertainment executive, dotcom bitch, journalist, brand strategy consultant, and editorial nerd, with experience developing stories, shaping brands, building audiences, creating campaigns, and figuring out how to make people care. I’ve worked with big companies and tiny organizations, launched things, written things, managed things, taught things, and learned that some of the best ideas happen when you stop worrying about whether you’re doing things the “right” way.

I’m especially interested in the space where storytelling, culture, humor, and community overlap. I like ideas that are smart without taking themselves too seriously, campaigns that make people feel something, and creative work that gives people a reason to participate. I’m a lifelong Pacific Northwesterner, which means I have strong opinions about local culture, regional weirdness, good coffee, bad weather, and the difference between a brand that actually understands its community and one that simply says it does.

My writing and visual art have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, SELF, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Amazon Original Stories, Assay, Fourth Genre, The Rumpus, Barzakh, Mud Season, and elsewhere. I hold an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Bennington Writing Seminars and a BA in American Studies from Smith College.

I’m also a mom, widow, former lifeguard, deckhand, camp counselor and college club president, enthusiastic collector of rocks and beach trash, and the person friends call when they need someone to tell them the truth. I like long sniff walks with my aging dog, making art from scraps, wandering through museums, and following whatever strange thing the algorithm has decided I need to be curious about today.

These days, I’m working on essays on art, grief, secrets, post-capitalist feminism, The Dick Sisters Substack and podcast; a second memoir about hoarding and collecting; some short stories and plays, community projects, and various forms of creative troublemaking. I also read nonfiction submissions for Ploughshares, serve on the board of trustees for MOHAI, and travel whenever I can.