A bit about me...

I am an author and editor of children's literature living in Boulder, Colorado. I received my MFA as a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Austin. Slow Down, Tumbleweed (Sounds True, 2021) was my first published children’s book, and my next book, And the Beauty of the World Carried Me, is forthcoming from Macmillan in early 2026.

I edit books of adult non-fiction and have had the honor to work with thinkers and wisdom holders like Pema Chodron, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mark Nepo, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, William Ury, and many more over the past 15 years. I also edit children’s picture books. If you are interested in editing work, you can learn more at Wordhaven, Editing & Writing.

Born in New York City and raised between NYC and Houston, Texas, I was an only child with a large collection of stuffed animals with whom I had lots of make believe conversations. I was always drawn to the arts, much more than sports, so it was to my surprise that the summer after 3rd grade I won first place at camp in a cow pie throwing contest in central Texas. That same summer, a camp counselor locked me and some other kids in the walk-in kitchen freezer, so I never went back. From then onward, I attended and eventually worked at a small hippy summer camp hidden among the aspen trees of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where I fell in love with the wilderness and the music of Cat Stevens. The woods and the natural world (and the voices of my childhood stuffed animals) are very much a part of my writing today.

In 2010 I started a meditation practice which I dropped completely in 2013 in favor of taking long silent hikes and reading a book a week. These two activities remain my meditation practice today. 

I love backpacking, hut to hut skiing, quilting, baking, reading the Sunday NYT, Basset Hounds, podcasts, and public radio. My camping tent is my second home. I am most happy when cuddled up in said tent with my husband, 2 children, and 3 dogs during a summer thunderstorm.

Short of going camping together, the best way to get to know me is probably through the books and authors I love.

Some of the children's picture books that have captured my heart and imagination are Ferdinand by Munro Leaf, The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, The Dead Bird by Margaret Wise Brown, Charlotte's Web by EB White, The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman, Rabbit and the Motorbike, by Kate Hoefler, I Can Be Anything by Shinsuke Yoshitake, Windows by Julia Denos, and Julian is a Mermaid, by Jessica Love. In junior high I devoured everything by Lois Duncan.

My list of favorite writers is ever-growing. It includes Virginia Woolf, Maggie Nelson, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Carmen Machado, Karen Russell, Mary Karr, Colson Whitehead, Joy Williams, Angela Carter, Haruki Murakami, Lauren Groff, Ada Limon, Naomi Shihab Nye, and W. S. Merwin.