Welcome

I’m a sixth-generation Californian who wandered far afield after college—to Madrid, then Boston for an MFA, then NYC. I left a librarian job at the New Yorker to write travel books; lived again in Spain, then worked as a freelance journalist in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico, and suburban D.C.

My fiction has appeared in many journals and three anthologies, and I’m the grateful recipient of six Maryland State Arts Council grants. My collection, Aliens and Other Stories, won the 2013 Washington Writers Publishing House Fiction Prize. I’m finishing a second story collection and a novel.

I speak Spanish and Portuguese and am very slowly learning Persian. I live in Bethesda, Maryland with my husband, David.