Greetings, dreamers!
Welcome to my artist website.
I appreciate you stopping by, and hope you enjoy spending some time in my little corner of the cyber-sky.
At the moment, this is my dedicated digital platform. In 2024, I heeded the insistent call of my moral compass to disembark from the social mediaships.
[no regrets inserted here]
Since then, it has been my great joy to keep in direct touch with members of my virtual village through the occasionally sent, always self-composed newsletter. If you'd like to be part of my community, I'd be delighted and grateful to welcome you via the secure mailing list form on my contact page. 💌
Wishing you all the best out there, comrades! A toast of thanks for lending your eyes & ears—and hearts & minds—to the artwork samples shared on this site. May they lend some degree of meaning or delight to your day in return.
Cheers!
xoxo
Memoir musing...
In 2021, I completed my MFA in Poetry with New England College. A highlight of my time in the program was collaborating with my thesis mentor—brilliant poet, author, and educator Chen Chen—to draft a book-length manuscript from my growing collection of poems. What emerged from that effort was a kind of "bio-pictography," as the work interlaced autobiographical poems with original photographs. Across the past few years, I've continued to experiment with structure, but my core vision for the book's substance endures: while it may greet readers as a hybrid memoir, it will serve them more as a poetic manual on the art of creating a truth-fired life. A literary field guide for the authentically inclined. An imagistic handbook that animates as it illuminates how a life guided by inner truth over situational fear at every juncture of choice—be it sized small, medium, or Holy shit!—will no doubt be arduous, but it will also, and more importantly...if only eventually...be 150% worth it.
Chen had some (((blush))) gracious words to share about my work when introducing me at a reading. Words such as...
Here is a poet who refuses to settle for half-truths, restlessly striving instead toward a full aliveness that shines and shines with the integrity of hard-won, innermost knowledge. - Chen Chen
To read the full introduction, click the image preview. Cheers and thanks if you do!
Learn more...
I'm currently pursuing a sibling MFA in Nonfiction with Goucher College, buckling down in the wordsmithery to hone the prose side of my voice as a literary artist. The past two years of deep study (I'll be completing the degree in December 2026) have been academically rigorous yet artistically invigorating. I'm now reworking my original manuscript to include nonfiction vignettes, and as I "follow the brush," I only grow more certain that my debut book is also calling to serve as a tribute to one of my poet-heroines—and the greatest list-maker of all time—Sei Shōnagon. Shōnagon's 10th-century masterpiece The Pillow Book gave rise to the Japanese literary genre zuihitsu, a museful and contemplative, collage-like form that feels spontaneous to read but is in fact meticulously composed. I'm grateful and inspired to find that over a thousand years later, the form has given rise to my inner Shōnagon!
I look forward to sharing individually published pieces from the manuscript in the near future, and in due time, inviting you to read the book in its entirety!
I teaching.
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Which is to say... I love leading public programs and privately mentoring students of diverse backgrounds and experience levels who share the same goal: to advance their writing—and so, reading!—skills with an unwavering dedication to literary excellence, artistic growth, and personal delight. While I passionately serve students of both poetry and nonfiction, the heartbeat of my work is demystifying poetry for those who feel at once allured and alarmed by its constructs and aspire to develop a more confident and joyous relationship with verse.
To those ends (read: vital beginnings!), it is my deep honor to regularly create and lead a variety of interactive workshops, courses, and talks in partnership with public libraries, arts organizations, and educational institutions. And...on inspired occasion...to self-produce and present intimate online programming.
Please check out the photo gallery above for a virtual peek at my real-world offerings as a dedicated teaching artist—and consider yourself ardently and ever invited to join me at an upcoming class or event!
My journey with song. . .
...unfolded across two decades of mic checks
performed from the juncture of IN IT &
Not-To-Win-but-To-Live, Love, Lose, Learn & GIVE IT...
hundreds of gigs...innumerable hours spent sleuthing the right word/note/melody/chord/groove/affordable-but-tasty bottle of red...one ocean...thirty states...tens of thousands of road warrior'd miles...bottomless mugs (and car tumblers) of joe...five records...oodles of homespun demos...a treasure trove of live, recorded, and written collaborations with world-class musicians & tunesmiths...and most importantly, immeasurable joys shared with countless beautiful souls who I'll forever cherish as noble patrons and friends. But don't just take my word for it—take in these archived sights & sounds.
Shutterbuggin'...
Art is everywhere.
I like taking pictures, to prove it.
Link here to read a short artist bio.