Where you may have seen my work

My prose poetry and nonfiction have appeared in Mother Mag, Aurora’s Allegory Ridge Poetry Anthology, Coal Hill Review, Entropy Magazine, The Red Clay Review, The Fourth River, Quiet Lightning’s sPARKLE & bLINK, Moonstone Arts Center’s poetry anthology The Weight of Motherhood, and on Perspectives, a listener commentary series on KQED public radio, among others.

I have a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Chatham University, a school in my home city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. With Northern California as my backdrop and the Rust Belt at my roots, I’m working on finding a publisher for my poetry manuscript and my collection of essays as memoir.

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During daylight hours, I’m a developmental editor and thought leadership consultant for executives. I’ve worked as a content strategist, copywriter, and editor for 15+ years, and my writing has appeared in a range of business publications, newsletters, and brand blogs.

“As a girl, she was never the loudest in the room — preferred to read novels from a folding chair on the front lawn of her parents’ home. So far away from Brazil’s low sky and shallows; yet in her adulthood, my mother stood — no matter how loud our father’s fury shook.”