I’m a teacher and writer living and working in Brooklyn. I spent the last decade teaching 10th grade ELA at Somerville High School outside of Boston. I consider personal writing a liberatory practice and recently facilitated the publication of an anthology of students’ poetry called “The View from Somerville” with Cervena Barva Press.

I am currently an MFA candidate at NYU in creative nonfiction where I am working on an architecturally-inspired memoir about growing up in a hundred year old hotel in rural Pennsylvania among four sisters, infinite cornfields, and many rooms, rooftops, and doorways. I’m interested in the relationship between people and places and my writing explores the interaction of memory and architecture, the tensions between collective and individual identity, and questions of selfhood amid class and place-based precarities.

I earned a B.F.A. in Poetry from Brooklyn College, studied Scandinavian education as a Fulbright scholar in Norway, and am delighted to continue my educational journey at NYU where I am the Writers in the Public Schools Fellow in collaboration with Teachers & Writers Collaborative.