I am a writer, connector, and social impact advisor.
I write fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. I received my BA in English Literature from Yale University and my MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. My collection of lyric essays on guilt, entitled WORK ON WHAT HAS BEEN SPOILED, was shortlisted for the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize in 2018. My poems, interviews, and essays have appeared in Community of Writers Poetry Review, LUMINA, and Peripheries, and I served as Nonfiction Contest Editor for LUMINA with Leslie Jamison as judge.
I have had a 25+ year career as a nonprofit and philanthropic leader and Executive Director at Summer Search, Steamboat Foundation, and Tauck Family Foundation. Since 2015, I have been self-employed as a social impact consultant, as well as serving as Senior Advisor for Arabella Advisors. I am a founding board member and Secretary of Edible Schoolyard NYC, and am also Senior Editor of Poetry and Prose for Peripheries, a literary and arts journal published annually by Harvard Divinity School.
I live in Connecticut with my husband, two kids, one cat, two dogs, twelve chickens, and a few hundred thousand honeybees.