I write poems about ordinary things—peonies, weeds, crickets, the weight of objects after someone's gone.

I grew up on a hay farm in New Jersey and live in Baltimore now, in Hampden, with a calico cat who adores me and bites me in equal measure.

My prose poem “Telling the Bees” won the Bellevue Literary Review's 2026 John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry, judged by Patricia Spears Jones. My work appears in American Poetry Journal, Westchester Review, Pine Hills Review, Lindenwood Review, After Happy Hour Review, among others. I was a July 2025 Tupelo Press 30/30 poet.

I'm working on two poetry manuscripts: Unpicked, shaped by the sudden death of my father, and The Body Counts, a chapbook built around angel numbers. A selection of audio recordings is available on SoundCloud.

When I'm not writing, I lead research and evaluation at the Trust for Public Land. When I'm not doing either of those things, I walk slowly, float in pools, and play with my nieces.

Latest obsession: trying to attract toads to my garden.