Bio

Welcome! I am an Arizona-born creative writer, artist, and communications expert. As the third of nine children, writing has become not just a mode of expression, but a voice that cuts through the noise. Most of my work sits in the realm of autofiction, a liminal space between what is real and what is made up. I write into the facts—and the lies memory tells me—to find the story that didn’t happen within the one that did, a Truth that resonates above everything else.

My memoir, essays, and fiction appear in The Rumpus, After Dinner Conversation, Narratively, Guernica, Under the Gum Tree, BOMB, and elsewhere. I holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University School of the Arts, where I am the Senior Director of Communications, and a BA from Arizona State University in English Literature and Spanish Language.

I live, write, and create in Portland, Oregon.