I am a published writer, teacher, letterpress artist, and former bookseller. I’ve taught writing and art to elementary and middle school students, teen parents and undergraduates, and for over twelve years, I was the faculty advisor for South Puget Sound Community College’s award-winning arts and literary journal, The Percival Review. I received my BA in Human Development and Creative Writing from The Evergreen State College and my MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where I studied writing pedagogy and received the Jack Kerouac Scholarship for creative writing achievement. I worked as a writing tutor for both Naropa University and SPSCC.

I am deeply embedded in my community through work with organizations such as Olympia Artspace Alliance, an all-volunteer nonprofit organization established in 2011 to create, foster and preserve affordable space for artists in Olympia, and Community Print, a member-run, community-supported letterpress studio. I have initiated and participated in various community-based creative endeavors, most notably as a co-founder of both the publishing collective Triceratops Press and The 3rd Thing Press.

My writing has appeared in many anthologies, literary journals, and chapbooks, including You Look Too Young to Be a Mom: Teen Moms Speak Out on Love, Learning and Success, Bombay Gin, Cliterature, Mamazine, Wendigo, The Los Angeles Press, Desuetude Journal, and Elderly Magazine.

My current creative work combines photographs, drawings, and hybrid writing to explore the ways secrets and traumas are passed on from the bodies of mothers to their children. My most recent collaboration is a Substack newsletter, The Scrap Heap: Conversations on Healing and Creative Process with writer Jennifer Berney. To deepen my own creative process, I’ve taken up pottery, and I’m remembering just how challenging and invigorating it is to be a beginner again!