Welcome.
I am a writer and writing teacher living in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. I have taught writers of fiction and nonfiction at the Studio School at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Young Writers, and James River Writers.
I was a founding editor of Life in 10 Minutes Press and co-editor of the anthology Unspoken: Writers on Infertility, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth. I’m a graduate of the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte and a former contributing writer for Richmond magazine. I’ve been a hotel maid in northern Spain, a nanny in Australia, a garden worker on a commune in Sweden, and a holiday delivery person for UPS.
As a writer, I tend to favor literary fiction centered on relationships between women. As a reader and teacher, my interests vary much more widely…and wildly.
Some of my current favorite books include Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward, A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez, Kinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li, Dispatches by Michael Herr, Sula by Toni Morrison, and A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin. My forever-favorite is Willa Cather, through whom I first learned to love books.