I'm a New England-based author and poet who thrives on genre-hopping, style exploration, and themes that test what we carry, what we bury, and what inevitably breaks through. I live for language at its richest and most unruly. 

For me, writing has always been a place to land: the steady ground beneath life's unexpected detours, and the only way of sorting the seemingly unsortable. I don’t write so much to be understood, as to understand. Without the echo of reflection, all would simply feel... incomplete. I write with the hope of inspiring that reflection in others.

In coastal Connecticut, I share a life with my husband, Dan—the only person fluent in my particular brand of nonsense—and our two daughters, Morgan and Camryn—who share a roof, a last name, and absolutely nothing else. They are everything.

My debut short story collection, She’s Fine, explores the contradictions of modern womanhood: private reckonings, quiet absurdities, and the unspoken negotiations that shape daily life. Like much of my work, it examines the unseen effort required to maintain composure in a world that rarely notices it.

Over the years, my work has appeared in The Connecticut Bards Poetry Review (2025), Grief Dialogues, Poetry Festival, and multiple anthologies. I was named a Recognized Writer by Fanstory.com in 2024 and ranked among their top poets in 2023. My poem “Beneath the Tranquil Sheen” was selected as Poem of the Month on Poetry.com.

I am currently developing two novels while continuing to publish poetry and short fiction.

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