About
I'm an author, illustrator, and independent arts educator based in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Since childhood I’ve been unable to stop drawing, painting, & filling notebooks with stories, sketches, & poems, and to this day I’m constantly threading multiple art forms together to spin yarns that are richer than one medium can be.
My poetry has appeared in 60+ literary journals, and I’ve been teaching regular poetry workshops since 2021. My collection "Summer of the Oystercatchers" is forthcoming with Fernwood Press in early 2025.
I'm a traditional artist who works primarily with watercolor and gouache, and I teach frequent painting classes to adults and teens both online and in person. Between 2018 and 2022, I sent around 7,000 illustrated snail mail letters to subscribers in over 30 countries as part of a 48-month project called The Letters From the Sea Tower, and in 2024 I began making and mailing the Tales From the Mandalina Tree.
As a third-culture kid who has inhabited seventeen different houses on three continents, my life and work have been shaped by many Atlantic crossings. Before making a home in the Lehigh Valley, I lived in Texas, Arkansas, and England, and my childhood and early teen years were spent in Türkiye where I developed my lifelong love for the zip and tart of mandalinas—those small sunny mandarin oranges that glow on orchard branches in the dead of winter.
My poetry has appeared in 60+ literary journals, and I’ve been teaching regular poetry workshops since 2021. My collection "Summer of the Oystercatchers" is forthcoming with Fernwood Press in early 2025.
I'm a traditional artist who works primarily with watercolor and gouache, and I teach frequent painting classes to adults and teens both online and in person. Between 2018 and 2022, I sent around 7,000 illustrated snail mail letters to subscribers in over 30 countries as part of a 48-month project called The Letters From the Sea Tower, and in 2024 I began making and mailing the Tales From the Mandalina Tree.
As a third-culture kid who has inhabited seventeen different houses on three continents, my life and work have been shaped by many Atlantic crossings. Before making a home in the Lehigh Valley, I lived in Texas, Arkansas, and England, and my childhood and early teen years were spent in Türkiye where I developed my lifelong love for the zip and tart of mandalinas—those small sunny mandarin oranges that glow on orchard branches in the dead of winter.