I’m a writer, editor, and teacher from Malibu, California, now based in Portland, Oregon. Along the way, I’ve also lived in Montana, New Orleans, Scotland, Australia, Japan, and Galveston.
I hold an M.F.A. in Fiction from the University of Montana, where I was a Truman Capote Fellow, and a Ph.D. in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where I served as a Scripts Fellow in Narrative Health. I’m currently Nonfiction Editor at New Square, the journal of the Sancho Panza Literary Society, which gathers each summer in Dublin for writing workshops.
My work explores nature, technology, travel, survival and disasters both ecological and personal. My fiction takes the same terrains, but with slightly more dogs. You can read some of my recent work in Narrative, Joyland, DIAGRAM, Los Angeles Review of Books, Sundog Lit, Mississippi Review, The Master’s Review Anthology XI, and New Ohio Review. Find me on the road, on a plane, underwater, or wrangling my rescue pitbull-boxer, Phoebe.