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Writing, Speaking & Storytelling

Small Wonders

I'm a nature photographer in whatever light is left at the end of a teaching day, known to follow a swallowtail butterfly around like a groupie. I want to bring that same wonder to my writing, which is part of why I serve on the Education Committee, judge youth writing contests, and help select scholarship awards as a member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America.

What Comes After

I survived a rare melanoma diagnosis as a teenager, likely among the first patients my age in the early clinical trials that would later become standard immunotherapy. Since then, I've spent decades learning what long-term survivorship actually means. Not the end of treatment, but everything that comes after.

As a member of the National Cancer Survivors Day Foundation Speakers Bureau, I speak to that experience: the silence, the identity, the slow work of finding your voice again. I'm also faculty advisor to my campus chapter of the Oncology Society.

Memoir

My memoir is a coming-of-age love story — a chance to finally give voice to the nineteen-year-old I silenced for years, to the love that never left my side, and to one college semester we thought we could outrun. I am actively seeking representation.

Children's Stories

Not everything I write is for grown-ups.

A former Children’s Lit Fellow, I also write picture books. My work explores nature, family, neurodiversity, and the joy hiding in plain sight. And if a giggle sneaks in somewhere between the first page and the goodnight? Even better.

It turns out that writing for children and writing memoir have more in common than you’d think. Both ask you to pay attention. Both trust the reader completely.