I am a storyteller and the author of thirteen books across genres, including Edit Your Life (2023); Awake with Asashoryu (2022); She Never Told Me About the Ocean (2021). I have published many poems and delivered the TEDxBoise talk “Edit your life like a poem.”
I have literature degrees from Harvard (B.A.), Georgetown (M.A.), and the University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D.). I wrote a Ph.D. dissertation on the intersections between memoir and myth, a concept that informs my teaching and writing (and my entire way of looking at the world!) I teach for the Harvard Extension School Writing Program and Oxford University’s Diploma in Creative Writing, and I mentor a small group of writers each year through the Book Year Writer’s Circle.
In my free time, I love to make up stories with my young, hike, read, make vegan soups, make new friends, and drink tea with old friends.