I write essays, criticism, and the occasional prose poem. Currently, I’m at work on a memoir in essays about identity, nostalgia, power, and place throughout my many past lives. Sometimes I write about surfing, too.
I hold an MFA in literature and creative nonfiction writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars and a BA in English literature from Vassar College. My work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Image magazine, The Missouri Review, Off Assignment, Assay, G*Mob, Thrillist, and other publications, including two anthologies. Select essays have been featured in the Off Assignment newsletter, Bright Spots, and Memoir Monday. My writing has been generously supported by the Prospect Street Writers House.
And of course, I have a Substack: Still Stoked. I’m in the process of resurrecting it as conversations with and about people who surf, so subscribe now to be surprised later.
Cover Stories — Beautiful Lives, Beautiful Deaths “Surfing is scary because death is scary, but every time a surfer catches a wave, they get to live a different version of life.” Los Angeles Times, Image magazine
Essays — To the Portrait of Anonymous Kisses “This is why I’ve come to believe, seven years after first encountering you in the magazine, that you might actually be a doodle.” Letter to a Stranger, Off Assignment magazine
The Marble “I thought I could hold a marble in my mouth in place of the words I lacked.” The Missouri Review
Baja California, 1995 “Something has shifted in this gesture, this drunk woman no longer resembles my mother.” G*Mob magazine
I Find Myself Riding the Subway “I find myself seated next to a very fat baby, so fat that his eyes look crossed and I want to bite into his cheeks.” G*Mob magazine