ABOUT

My Alabama childhood afforded me creative and unstructured days and language skills until some Journalism and Creating Writing professors at The University of Alabama really split open some hibernating creatures of the poetic sort. Dreams of New York City ransacked the mechanical stability of a career in business magazines, so I followed a few friends up to New Jersey and stumbled into a dreamy book editing job within educational publishing underneath one of the big publishers. Cancer happened. Marriage happened. Now, from Asbury Park, New Jersey, I own my own business and attempt to inspire luxurious growth in high school juniors. I freelance edit and spill some poetry into notebooks (fairly regularly), and I attempt to make homemade biscuits and gravy. I paint some abstract acrylics sometimes and thoroughly enjoy unstructured days painted with learning and language as a master's student in the Teaching Writing program at Johns Hopkins. I am also working on another poetic manuscript so I can help writers learn to experiment with building poetic works in multimodal formats.