My formative experiences were spending many weeks alone in the woods as a young child and, after dropping out of school at 13, hitchhiking alone around the eastern United States. The former imbued me with a permanent sense of wonder and an unshaken belief in magic. The latter showed me how freedom and fear may live side by side, revealed the generosity and depravity of my fellow humans, and animated my inborn desire to embrace the common good, to nurture justice and community in the world. These are the gifts that sustain me.

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My fiction has appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Idle Ink and the Green Magic anthology. My nonfiction has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Huffington Post, and is forthcoming from White Wall Review. I have an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature and an MA in Social Policy. I live in Brooklyn, NY.

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