ABOUT
I hold an MFA in poetry and a PhD in rhetoric and composition, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In another life, I wrote scholarly work on writing studies and materiality, creative writing pedagogy, and community literacy, and I've published that work in Community Literacy Journal, Literacy in Composition Studies, and The Journal of Creative Writing Studies.
I teach at Stockton University in New Jersey, and I also lead community writing workshops and lifelong learning courses, most recently at the Cooper Street Writing Workshops at Rutgers-Camden, the Stockton Institute for Lifelong Learning, Blue Stoop, and Murphy Writing.
You can find me on instagram and join us over at Write More, Be Less Careful, my newsletter about why writing is hard and how to do it anyway.
I’m a writer and a writing teacher. My first book of narrative nonfiction, The Good Mother Myth, is forthcoming from St. Martin’s in January 2025.
I’m the author of three books of poetry, most recently Pocket Universe, and the co-editor of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood.
I’ve recently written pieces on the damaging mythology of the “golden hour” after birth for Slate and making mom friends for Romper, as well as review-essays on the whiteness of the motherhood memoir and the political nature of motherhood at Electric Literature.