I graduated with Honors in Theater from Oberlin College (BA) and Distinction in Modern Literature and Culture from the University of York (MA). I attended the Tin House summer workshop and received scholarships to The Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Millay Arts, the Gershwin Hotel, the Colgate and Southampton Writers Conferences, and The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.
After getting an MFA in Fiction from NYU, I spent eight years teaching English and creative writing, mostly at private high schools in Hawaiʻi.
