It’s a toss-up which I love more: writing or traveling. I've crossed the Sahara Desert’s dunes on a camel, trotted into the Arctic Circle with a reindeer sled, floated in the Dead Sea, traversed India and Thailand on an elephant, and clung to rope bridges that swung over gorges in the Amazon Rainforest—for starters.

I'm a memoirist and essayist living in New Hampshire’s Seacoast region. My essays, poems, and flash prose have been published in dozens of literary journals and anthologies—among them, the multi-award-winning anthology Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness and The Northwind Treasury anthology, with my essay winning second place in the Northwind Writing Award.

My memoir's opening chapter was a top four finalist for the Sandra Carpenter Prize for Creative Nonfiction and longlisted for the First Pages Prize. I've been awarded writing residencies around the world, and I'm a columnist with WOW! Women on Writing that publishes a monthly newsletter sent to more than 50,000 email subscribers. I work in the technology sector and volunteer as a writing workshop leader for a nonprofit that serves people living with brain injury.