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, and piecing together what's inherited and what's chosen. Along the way, I completed an MA in Creative Writing at Sacramento State University and later an MFA at San Francisco State University, where I received the Joe Brainard Creative Writing Fellowship.

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My creative nonfiction has been recognized as a finalist for the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction and as runner-up for both the LitFest Emerging Writer Fellowship and the Honeybee Literature Prize. In 2026, I was selected as a Writer in Residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. I'm currently at work on a memoir-in-essays that explores how landscapes, animals, and inherited stories leave their tracks across generations.