About Me
I am a writer, editor, teacher, and disability advocate in the Washington, DC area. Find my work in The Washington Post, The Week, Al Jazeera, The Independent, Huffington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Brevity, The Rumpus, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Poet Lore, Fairy Tale Review, and many more newspapers, magazines, and literary journals. My writing has been included on the Wigleaf Top 50 and has been nominated for Best American Essays, The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction.
I have a Master of Education, extensive teaching experience, and I love to speak with large and small groups about education, disability support, mental health, and all things writing! I teach a wide variety of writing classes, from generative pop-ups to advanced prose workshops. I edit novels, memoirs, anthologies, short story collections, and essay collections.
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A Taste:
They rage, and I struggle to help
An essay published in The Washington Post.
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Tradition
A short story published in Passages North, selected for Wigleaf Top 50 and nominated for Best Small Fictions.
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A Small Consolation
A short work of nonfiction featured in Brevity Magazine.
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