about

My writing can be found in many publications, including “Beautiful Things” at River Teeth Journal, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Essay Daily, Forge Literary, Fugue, Literary Mama, Manifest-Station, North Dakota Quarterly, Reunion: The Dallas Review, Sweet Lit, and The Keepthings. My Brevity essay, “The Once Wife,” was nominated for Best American Essays 2023.

After earning a BA, summa cum laude, in English, I went on to earn a J.D. with distinction. I spent 15 years “careering,” first as a lawyer, and then as an acquisitions editor and publisher in legal academic publishing. In 2014, I returned to graduate school to earn an MFA in Creative Nonfiction (G’17). I’ve been teaching in Bay Path University’s MFA program since 2024.

I am currently seeking a publisher for a hybrid memoir in essays (and poems) of linked essays that explore the integration of regret and grief AND, what I’m calling, regret-grief.

When I’m not writing, editing, teaching, or parenting (an now, grandparenting), I like to:

  • Read other essayists (of course!)
  • Dance at concerts or alone in my living room
  • Walk outdoor labyrinths and hike tree-laden trails
  • Swim laps early in the morning
  • Study Irish mandolin and the Bodhrán
  • Collect and spin vintage vinyl
  • Photo by D. Albrecht Photography