I’ve always been writing . . . from that first “self-published” book at age nine, through my angst-ridden teenage poetry years, to stories scribbled in stolen moments while raising children, and through 25 years as a journalist, travel writer, and medical researcher/writer. Of all these incarnations, my most enduring interest was creative nonfiction.

My writing explores dislocation, family dynamics, and the ways in which the personal and political overlap. I have studied creative nonfiction under Leslie Jamison and Patrice Gopo, and my work has been supported by Looking Glass Rock Writers Conference, Wildacres Retreat, Grand Marais Art Colony, and the AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship Program. My essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Examined Life Journal, House Beautiful, Eclipse Literary Magazine, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Frazzled Lit, and other publications.