I write poems about ordinary things—peonies, weeds, crickets, the weight of things 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, Bellevue Literary Review, Westchester Review, Pine Hills Review, LEON Literary 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.