About
I am a writer, teacher, learning designer, and copyeditor living in Duluth, Minnesota. I’ve been writing since I was nineteen, and I have a lifelong love of dance. In the warm-enough months, I enjoy swimming—really, bobbing around—in Lake Superior.
I design and teach writing classes that inspire fresh drafts and encourage writers to follow their own voices. I also teach dance to a range of music, with a focus on fun.
I am a 2025 McKnight Writer Fellow whose work has appeared in many literary magazines and in two standalone chapbooks. I have been honored with a Pushcart Prize, a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, and an earlier McKnight Artist Fellowship.
More about some of my roles
Writer: I am interested in storytelling, character, voice and rhythm, and how people survive, together and alone. I write fiction, poetry, essays, and between-genre prose.
Writing teacher and learning designer: I design and teach writing classes for people of all experience levels and ambitions. Most of my teaching is through community organizations; I’ve also designed and taught courses for undergraduates and graduate students. I teach generative classes that help writers create new drafts, and I teach critique-based classes in which a small community of writers work together to help one another return to, and move forward with, work in progress. You can check out a small learning design project on point of view here.
Dance teacher: My modern dance classes take place at Raise the Barre in Duluth, Minnesota. I have been teaching dance for people with Parkinson’s and their families since 2012. I trained as a teaching artist with Dance for PD® and ArtSage, a Minnesota nonprofit advocating for accessible, enriching participatory arts programs for older adults.
Copyeditor and proofreader: I copyedit and proofread for literary book publishers, primarily in poetry and fiction.
Community gatherer: I host silent writing sessions via Zoom so that we can write and create together from any distance.