About Me

I moved west to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Montana, where I served as Fiction Editor for Cutbank Literary Magazine. Two of my flash fiction pieces, "Minx, Siren, Norman, Stone" and "Apply Chapstick and Try Again," are available in the Word Dog Quarterly and my short story "The Wilting House on the Mountain" can be read in Duplicitous: A WriteHive Compilation, available on Amazon.

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To read more, please check out the Work tab above. I'm biased, but I bet you'll love it. 

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Since 2016, I've lived on Salish Kootenai lands, in what is now known as Missoula, and  taught with the Free Verse Writing Project, which amplifies the voices of incarcerated and other historically erased youth across rural Montana. I've also taught creative writing workshops with Word Dog, Open AIR (where I was fortunate enough to be an Artist In Residence in 2020 and Writing Juror in 2023), the Missoula Writing Collaborative, the University of Montana's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and Arts Missoula as part of their collaboration with the Missoula Food Bank, Cultural Feast, which brings lunch and an arts lessons into low income communities in Missoula in the summer months.​

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For 5 years, I also worked as the Grants and Development Manager for Youth Homes. I'm so grateful to have done such meaningful work alongside remarkable people. The skills I honed in this position--particularly event planning and grant writing--helped me step into self employment.

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These days, I'm focusing on my writing projects, my monthly snail mailing, the Wonder-Gizmos, and Directing my first play, Excuse Us, cowritten with Bob Giordano founder of Missoula Free Cycles. Thanks to my amazing students, I've been fortunate enough to expand into Creative Coaching and freelance editing.

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The grotesque smacks its jaws in all my work. Dark humor, unforgettable characters, a roiling sense of place, and wild truth characterize my short stories, flash fictions, screenplays, creative nonfiction, zines, art books, and my current book project. Thanks to a grant from Arts Missoula, awarded in May of 2025, I was able to purchase a 3D printer, to expand the production of my 3D children's "shoe-book" Millie of Darkness.

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That's the update! When I'm not watercoloring or wedding planning, I'm looking for new places to snorkel in the mountains. Current obsessions include Remedios Varo, cenotes, and ghosts stories.