About Me

I am a compassionate writer-educator with a love for teaching and writing. Presently, I teach for the Writing Department, School of Professional Studies, and the Liberal Arts for Returning Citizens (LARC) program at Clark University. I recently completed my MFA in Creative Nonfiction at New England College in July 2023. I am a life-long learner, writer, and dedicated teacher.

My 20-plus years of teaching experience include K-12 public education and higher education. My first career began as a librarian and library teacher in K-6 and later 7-12 teaching information curation, style and citation workshops, research skills and strategies and more. As I continued teaching, I began adding high school teaching experience to my repertoire. I have taught 8th grade Language Arts, and high school English courses including MCAS preparatory, Dystopian Literature and Film and Creative Writing. Currently, I teach college-level composition. literature, and creative writing courses.

My scholarly interests include the History of the Essay, Creative Nonfiction, and Human-Animal Relationships in Memoir and Autobiography. I also have a slight obsession with true crime. My work has appeared in asap/J, The Carolina Quarterly, Soundings East, Bennington Review, Doctor T.J. Eckleberg Review, 580 Split, and other fine places. Francesca Borrione (UVA, Media Studies) and I have an edited collection of academic essays, Voicing the Less Dead coming out from Lexington Books in 2024. Besides writing, teaching, and studying, I enjoy traveling, and spending time with friends and family, especially my son.