is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. In addition to writing the occasional short story or essay, she has worked in the field of college admissions and counseling for over twenty years. She is a former Assistant Director of College Counseling in Independent Schools.

Her fiction has been published in the Hawaii Women’s Journal, Frontier Psychiatrist, Day One, and The Hopkins Review. You can read her non-fiction at Buzzfeed, American Short Fiction, and Salon.

She lives in Baltimore with her husband and a very decorative cat where she is hard at work on a novel about the intersection of class, race, college admissions, and independent schools.