About
I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, thinking I’d become a dancer despite my body’s aversion to grace. My brief stint as a ballerina figurine may have contributed to this delusion. When reason set in, I majored in English and history at Indiana University and became an editor for a technical book publisher in Indianapolis and San Francisco. My fascination with all of the characters I met led me to an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at the University of Iowa.
After graduate school, I taught a range of writing courses as a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire. I spent summers experimenting with different professions–magazine editing, content writing, and high school teaching. In August of 2019, I left the East Coast for Indianapolis so that I could live close to my family and retire my gigantic snow shovel.
My essays have been published in Brevity, The Legendary, and Redivider and aired on an NPR affiliate. My short, “You and That Mad Cow,” appeared in Flash Nonfiction Funny, an anthology edited by Tom Hazuka and Dinty Moore. I podcast with friends about movies at Nobody Knows Anything and write about classic films at Cary Grant Won’t Eat You; my posts have been reprinted in the Classic Movie Blog Association’s eBooks, which benefit film preservation nonprofits. I’m completing two books: a memoir about the aunt who designed that ballerina figurine of me so many years ago and a book of humor essays about being childfree, a trait she shared with me.