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One of my earliest memories is from my second-grade class's open house. My writing journal sat open on my desk, and my parents took their time reading the story I had written, an adventurous and imaginative tale about a bug narrowly avoiding drowning in a juice box.
By middle school, I was staying up late at night, attempting novels in the spirit of my favorite author at the time, Christopher Pike. But with ambitions of going to medical school and becoming a brain surgeon, writing soon took a backseat to science and math. Spoiler alert: I didn't become a brain surgeon--didn't even go to medical school! Instead, I took my BA in Neuroscience across the country and found my home at the front of a classroom.
I taught kindergarten for five years, then moved back to Boston and into upper grades and school administration. But after a decade and a half spent building a career in education, something shifted. The creativity I'd locked away so many years before suddenly re-emerged in 2018 when I began writing my first novel. Of course, that book is unfinished and waiting patiently in my computer's hard drive for me to return to it. But later that year, I begin writing When We Were Mothers. It took me more than four years from start to publish--during which I had a baby, took on a new job, and survived a pandemic--and I am exceptionally proud of the way it has turned out.
As I work on my books, I write essays and short stories and am the founder and head editor of a news publication in my town. My stories aim to be entertaining, thought-provoking, and propulsive, bringing readers on a journey designed to illuminate the darker corners of life and question the way we view the world.
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By middle school, I was staying up late at night, attempting novels in the spirit of my favorite author at the time, Christopher Pike. But with ambitions of going to medical school and becoming a brain surgeon, writing soon took a backseat to science and math. Spoiler alert: I didn't become a brain surgeon--didn't even go to medical school! Instead, I took my BA in Neuroscience across the country and found my home at the front of a classroom.
I taught kindergarten for five years, then moved back to Boston and into upper grades and school administration. But after a decade and a half spent building a career in education, something shifted. The creativity I'd locked away so many years before suddenly re-emerged in 2018 when I began writing my first novel. Of course, that book is unfinished and waiting patiently in my computer's hard drive for me to return to it. But later that year, I begin writing When We Were Mothers. It took me more than four years from start to publish--during which I had a baby, took on a new job, and survived a pandemic--and I am exceptionally proud of the way it has turned out.
As I work on my books, I write essays and short stories and am the founder and head editor of a news publication in my town. My stories aim to be entertaining, thought-provoking, and propulsive, bringing readers on a journey designed to illuminate the darker corners of life and question the way we view the world.
Sign up for my free weekly newsletter to read some of my essays and receive updates and news about books and events.