Welcome!
I’m a writer, editor, publicist, and educator working with individual authors, and an independent press (Arrowsmith Press). I’ve been editing and coaching writers for more than twenty-five years, helping them generate ideas and reimagine their manuscripts. My experience includes editing and running literary journals from submission to distribution; partnering with bookstores, magazines, and festivals; presenting panels and readings; presenting special lectures at universities; QA’ing online mental health courses; working with journalists; and editing, editing, editing. I co-edit MicroLit, an online literary journal.
In addition to my memoir, The Kingdom of His Will, my work has appeared in LEON Literary Review, Funicular, Heavy Feather Review, Litro, Mud Season Review, Switch, Bending Genres, Emerge, Hyacinth Review, West Trade Review, Cleaver, The Brooklyn Rail, Tenderly, The Rumpus, TSR: The Southampton Review, Post Road, Baltimore Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Originally from South Carolina (but with strong Canadian roots), I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Boston University, and an MFA in Literature and Creative Writing from Bennington College. I read. I write. I swim. I travel. I believe in sentimentia but I am not sentimental. Nothing brings me greater joy than working one-on-one with fellow writers. If you’re interested in working together, please send me a note via my email.