I took my first creative writing class almost on a dare—an item scribbled on a list in the back of The Artist’s Way in 1994. I thought it was just something to try. Instead, it changed everything.

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Since then, I’ve followed writing through the winding parts of my life: raising children, surviving loss, piecing together what’s inherited and what’s chosen. Along the way, I completed an MA at Sacramento State University and later an MFA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, where I received the Joe Brainard Creative Writing Fellowship.

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My essays have appeared in The Dunes Review, OmniVerse, American River Review, and Susurrus, and I'm currently at work on a memoir-in-essays that blends family history, body-memory, and the natural world’s imprint on my life and writing.