About Me
Learn more about me from Sunday Mornings at the River's interview from December 3rd, 2021, my writing practice on Jarrid Cantway's blog on September 29th, 2022, or on my Writers of the Future win in the Hartford Courant on October 12th, 2022.
I want to write for you.
I graduated with a BA in English Literature and Language from Smith College after a year abroad at at University College London in the Literature, Classics, and European Studies departments. I went on to receive my MFA in Creative Writing with a dual concentration in Poetry and Fiction from Fairfield University. After that, I was accepted into Fairfield's Post-Graduate Teaching Practicum that ran concurrently with my first semester as an Adjunct Professor of English at Fairfield University. There I taught composition, rhetoric, and genre survey literature courses.
But what does that information mean?
It means that I can write anything you need me to.
Being a Writer, capital W, isn't about learning one, specific way to write. It's about learning how to best communicate with whoever your audience is, through whatever medium best suits their needs. It's about reading and listening as much as it's about writing and speaking. It's about finding a way in--to sell, to move, to interest--to connect with your reader in the way they need you to connect with them. It's about communication and communication is all about adaptability.
What some may call a résumé, I call a list of experiences that have made me more versatile and knowledgable about a myriad of subjects. I've been: a dishwasher, a mentor for adolescent girls, an ESL tutor, a trainer at a gym, a creator of after school programs for underfunded schools, a marketing intern, a camp counselor for at-risk and cognitively impaired youth, a restaurant manager, a barista, the editor in chief of a literary magazine, a retail department manager, an office manager, and a college professor, along with all my writing experience. My freelance and creative work has been featured in numerous publications (click here and here to learn more.) My creative accolades include the Hatfield Prize for Best Short Story 2011, the long-list for Wigleaf’s Top Very Short Fictions 2021, and two honorable mentions in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest before winning the Second Quarter of the contest in 2022. My first book of poetry, Careful Cartography, was published in November of 2021 by Cornerstone Press as part of their Portage Poetry series. The collection was the recipient of the 2022 First Horizons Book Award and was shortlisted for the 2022 Eric Hoffer Award, receiving the distinction for an outstanding publication by an academic press.
And now, I want to bring everything I've learned to your project.
In my personal life, I'm a 31-year-old woman living in West Hartford, Connecticut with my husband and our dog, Harry Pawter. I'm a reader, a poet, a storyteller, a traveler, and, always and forever, a student. I'm passionate about everything from new and unique digital platforms to ancient texts, always looking for a new way to view the world around me and the world of the imagination. I'm someone who knows that wherever you are, whatever you're doing, there's always something new to learn.
But, above all, I am a Writer.
And I want to write for you.
I want to write for you.
I graduated with a BA in English Literature and Language from Smith College after a year abroad at at University College London in the Literature, Classics, and European Studies departments. I went on to receive my MFA in Creative Writing with a dual concentration in Poetry and Fiction from Fairfield University. After that, I was accepted into Fairfield's Post-Graduate Teaching Practicum that ran concurrently with my first semester as an Adjunct Professor of English at Fairfield University. There I taught composition, rhetoric, and genre survey literature courses.
But what does that information mean?
It means that I can write anything you need me to.
Being a Writer, capital W, isn't about learning one, specific way to write. It's about learning how to best communicate with whoever your audience is, through whatever medium best suits their needs. It's about reading and listening as much as it's about writing and speaking. It's about finding a way in--to sell, to move, to interest--to connect with your reader in the way they need you to connect with them. It's about communication and communication is all about adaptability.
What some may call a résumé, I call a list of experiences that have made me more versatile and knowledgable about a myriad of subjects. I've been: a dishwasher, a mentor for adolescent girls, an ESL tutor, a trainer at a gym, a creator of after school programs for underfunded schools, a marketing intern, a camp counselor for at-risk and cognitively impaired youth, a restaurant manager, a barista, the editor in chief of a literary magazine, a retail department manager, an office manager, and a college professor, along with all my writing experience. My freelance and creative work has been featured in numerous publications (click here and here to learn more.) My creative accolades include the Hatfield Prize for Best Short Story 2011, the long-list for Wigleaf’s Top Very Short Fictions 2021, and two honorable mentions in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest before winning the Second Quarter of the contest in 2022. My first book of poetry, Careful Cartography, was published in November of 2021 by Cornerstone Press as part of their Portage Poetry series. The collection was the recipient of the 2022 First Horizons Book Award and was shortlisted for the 2022 Eric Hoffer Award, receiving the distinction for an outstanding publication by an academic press.
And now, I want to bring everything I've learned to your project.
In my personal life, I'm a 31-year-old woman living in West Hartford, Connecticut with my husband and our dog, Harry Pawter. I'm a reader, a poet, a storyteller, a traveler, and, always and forever, a student. I'm passionate about everything from new and unique digital platforms to ancient texts, always looking for a new way to view the world around me and the world of the imagination. I'm someone who knows that wherever you are, whatever you're doing, there's always something new to learn.
But, above all, I am a Writer.
And I want to write for you.