My writing life began
as an advertising copywriter - first, in New York, and then in Boston. Eventually, I realized I wanted to write a different kind of fiction and was awarded a fellowship to attend Hollins University’s graduate creative writing program. Post-graduate life involved teaching high school English, getting married, having my first child, moving to the metro Washington D.C. area, having two more children, and writing in between babies and classes.
We eventually settled in Philadelphia, where I continue to teach and write. I earned my MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and am at work on my first novel. This work-in-progress was a finalist in the 2022 Writers’ League of Texas Manuscript Contest.
My work has appeared in The Threepenny Review, Cutleaf, The Baltimore Review, The Northwest Review, The Chicago Quarterly Review and various other lovely, but obscure (possibly extinct) literary magazines. One of my stories was shortlisted for the 2021 The Moth Short Story Prize judged by novelist Ali Smith.
I’m an alum of Bread Loaf, the Community of Writers, and the Kenyon Review Novel Workshop.