About Me

I'm an obsessive writer, extreme reader, and lifelong seeker.

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I love how words, language, and stories can connect people across time, space, and cultures.

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At Yale, I majored in English and studied Japanese, including a summer in Tokyo. Playing in a band, I learned how to write pop songs and perform in public.

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After graduation, I worked as a journalist in New York, San Francisco, and New Hampshire, where I learned to uncover stories, talk to strangers, and write on deadline for real-life readers.

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I returned to New York for an MFA in creative writing, where I learned the art of storytelling from author-teachers and creative classmates.

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Simultaneously, I became an English teacher, where I learned to engage the next generation of readers and writers, designing and teaching courses in African-American Literature, Latinx Literature, and Creative Writing, and advising the school literary magazine.

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Over several summers, I studied the Transatlantic Slave Trade on an NEH fellowship at the University of Virginia; Spanish language in Buenos Aires, and fiction writing at Kenyon College.

 

During a belated "gap" year, I traveled the country, with stints in Austin, Texas, an artists' residency in Nebraska, and trips to a dozen states.

 

I returned to New York and to the classroom, teaching writing courses to college undergraduates, where I expanded my pedagogical palette to include politics and economics, as well as business, ethics, and sustainability.

 

Meanwhile, I continued to write, publish, and advise individual and institutional clients.

 

In 2020, I migrated from Brooklyn to the New York suburbs, where I began teaching creative writing courses at state prisons to incarcerated individuals pursuing college degrees.

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In 2023, I want to connect with creative, ambitious people working to make the world a better place.