I am a social worker, sex educator, and writer living in Providence, Rhode Island. My stories have won or received recognition from the Kurt Brown Prize, the Raymond Carver Short Story Competition, the Waasnode Fiction Prize, and the Fairy Tale Review Awards. I've received support from Bread Loaf, Writing x Writers, and the AWP Writer-to-Writer Mentorship.

Right now, I'm also attending the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis, where I teach introductory fiction