I’ve been writing for most of my life…with some lengthy breaks in between projects. My work has appeared online and in print, won awards, and languished unread in drawers. I’ve blogged, read poetry in smoky back rooms, and filled notebooks with spells and dreams I’m too frightened to revisit.

In other words, I’m a writer.

I am the author of two books, It’s a Lot to Unpack and There’s Some Place Like Home: Lessons From a Decade Abroad, hundreds of essays, and two novels which may, or may not, see the light of day.

I believe that stories are the way we connect with one another and the world around us. I love stringing together the sentences that make those connections happen. Sometimes I get pearls, sometimes plastic Mardi Gras beads.

In other words, I’m a writer.

I currently live in Berlin, Germany although I’ll always be a New York City girl at heart.

You can learn more about me here.