I was raised in in rural upstate New York, where I was mostly homeschooled, practiced piano a lot, and raised laying hens. I came to New York City after graduating from RPI to work in technology on Wall Street. Since then, I’ve also been a technical writer and editor at a major private university and a staff member at International Arts Movement, an arts advocacy non-profit headquartered in New York where I managed events and launched initiatives such as the Readers Guild. In 2008, I founded The Curator, and a year later I finished an M.A. at NYU in humanities and social thought, focusing on twentieth-century intellectual history, art, and religion.

Nowadays, I teach English and humanities at The King’s College in Manhattan and co-edit Comment, and study creative nonfiction in Seattle Pacific University’s low-residency M.F.A. program. My writing on culture, religion, and politics appears in a variety of publications. In my free time, I buy too many books, dabble in philosophy I only sort of understand, and forget to go running. My photographer husband, Tom, and I like trying microbrews and watching the X-Files in our tiny apartment high above the Brooklyn treetops.

For more, see my C.V. or various interviews.