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.
Since disembarking from the social mediaships—for good!—in 2025, it has been my great joy to keep in more personal, humanized touch with my community through the occasionally sent, ever soul-fired newsletter. If joining my mailing list strikes a chord of interest, I'd be thrilled and grateful to welcome you via the secure form on my contact page. 💌
Wishing you all the best out there, comrades—a toast of thanks for lending your eyes, ears, hearts, and 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. The resulting work emerged as a kind of "bio-pictography," as it interlaced autobiographical poems with original photographs. As the book's structure continues to evolve, my steadfast vision is that, when published, it will be less of a memoir and more of a literary manual on the art of living a soul-fired life...an imaginative guidebook for the authentically inclined...a handbook of verse and visuals designed to animate as they illuminate 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 beautiful and gracious words to share about my work when introducing me at a reading. Words such as (((blush)))...
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 refine my voice and skill as an essayist. Along the way, I'm reworking the manuscript to include nonfiction vignettes, and as I "follow the brush," it's become clear that the work is also serving as a fiery tribute to one of my poet-heroines, 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 look forward to sharing individually published pieces in the near future, and in due time, inviting you to read the book in its entirety!
I teaching.
Which is to say... I love teaching and privately mentoring students of diverse backgrounds and experience levels who are looking to advance their writing—and so, reading!—skills with an unwavering dedication to literary excellence and artistic growth. I am passionate about serving students as a teacher of both poetry and nonfiction, but my true north as an educator is demystifying poetry for those who feel at once allured and alarmed by its imaginative constructs and aspire to foster a more confident and joyous relationship with verse!
To those ends (read: vital beginnings!), it is my honor and delight to regularly create and lead a wide variety of interactive workshops, courses, and talks in partnership with public libraries, arts organizations, and educational institutions, as well as through the occasional self-produced online program.
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.