Though a born and raised Californian, I chased a full tuition scholarship all the way to the University of South Dakota, where I earned my English-Creative Writing B.A. with high distinction honors, minoring in film studies and social media marketing. In Fall 2025, I will begin my creative writing MFA at the University of New Orleans while working for the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival. My creative and academic work can be found in Broken Antler Magazine, The Gravity of the Thing, Aisthesis, and other journals. My short films and one-act plays have been featured at the Valkyrie International Film Festival, the South Dakota Film Festival, the Slickrock Film Festival, and the Ron L. Moyer One-Act Festival. I'm pinching myself because now I can also say I'm a 2026 Pushcart Prize, 2025  Best American  Short Stories, and 2024 Shirley Jackson Award nominee.

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Having worked with several magazines, both as a writer and as an editor, I've gained experience working with multiple genres, but there's a special place in my heart for ensemble dramedies, absurdism, coming-of-age, and anything that's colorfully creepy. Bonus points if it's all of these combined. 

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As an aspiring educator, I aim to earn advanced degrees in creative writing and am interested in film, theatre,  publishing, academia, and nonprofit cultural work (so basically, I'm interested in everything). Above all, I love collaborating with other artists to create something that keeps us working into the night because we just can't pull ourselves away.