I am a fiction writer, playwright, poet, and occasional essayist. I write about disability rights, health care, education, social justice, family, loss, travel, and whatever else interests me.

My play, ‘Lessons From a Jellyfish” received the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Award for 2025. My work has been published in Fourth River, The Sun, Hippocampus, Brain, Child magazine, The Big Roundtable, and in the anthologies A CUP OF COMFORT FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS and SHE’S GOT THIS! My reading for San Francisco’s Listen to Your Mother, a critically acclaimed national live-reading program, is on YouTube.

I recently completed my MFA Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. I am also an alum of the juried workshops of Breadloaf, Sewanee, and the Community of Writers.

I consult my parents, grandmothers and my dog, Rico, for material. My parents and grandmothers are dead, but their ghosts speak to me daily and attend all of my readings. Rico, on the other hand, is very much alive, but he is a big liar and an unreliable muse.

I am presently working on a play and a novel.

I live with my husband, Gary, and Rico, near San Francisco, California.