I am a writer, educator and lifelong lover of stories.  My writing centers on authentic experiences with people, places and plants. 

Growing up, I had what I believed was in idyllic childhood in the great, wild and untamed northern forests of America.  I spent hours across the street from my home leaping puddles and climbing on vine covered trees. There, in this wonderland, I would enact grand tales of adventure with my brother and friends. It wasn’t until I was older that I realized the vast wilderness playground of my childhood was in fact just an overgrown urban stormwater ditch. This realization crystalized two things that has centered my life since: first, the transformative power of storytelling and, second, the intrinsic value of nature in people’s daily lives.

Professionally, I have been a classroom teacher, environmental educator and designed and built conservation landscapes through my company, Willow Oak Group.  During that time I had the pleasure of working with many organizations where we collaboratively created spaces for people, learning and wildlife, at refuges, schools and parks across the county.  For several of those years I worked specifically with addressing historic injustice and inequitable access to nature in Baltimore City. Currently I teach educators the value of connecting their students to the natural world as an extension of their classroom.   

I have throughout my professional career and personal experiences learned a great deal about the ecosystem we live in.  I have learned that my approach to understanding nature is through storytelling; stories that are both personal and universal.  My early literary heroes were Thoreau, Mary Oliver and Barbara Kingsolver, and more recently Delia Owens and Clint Davis.

My writing genera are poetry, essays and stories.

I love working with people who embrace the world as it unfolds around us and we create our place in it.