I launched my writing career as an editor at ELLE, where I wrote and edited culture pieces, and went on to write for publications including Seattle Weekly, The Stranger, and MSN. I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles.

These days, I write personal essays and fiction. My essays have explored relationships, women’s sexuality, and midlife reinvention for Hippocampus Magazine, The Manifest Station, Full Grown People, and Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age. See links to articles below.

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AN IDEAL MARRIAGE: A NOVEL

I recently completed an upmarket novel, An Ideal Marriage, a midlife love story and domestic comedy.

After two decades as an uncompromising singleton—gummy bears for dinner, last-minute vacations, and showing up to a matchmaker’s interview with swim-goggle marks and wet hair—Marina Bistry, 47, falls for a recent widower. She assumes age and maturity will give her an edge on marriage. How hard could it be at midlife? And after waiting so long, her marriage will be extraordinary, filled with travel, arts, and culture.

Once married, Marina discovers she’s unprepared to begin a life with someone when hers is already halfway over. With no model for a first marriage at midlife, Marina remains so committed to her youthful ideal that she can’t see—and risks ruining—the perfectly good marriage she’s already having.

The novel is complete at 73,000 words, and I’m currently seeking representation.

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SELECTED PERSONAL ESSAYS

These Should Be the Real Marriage Vows (Hippocampus Magazine)

Thirty-Three (Manifest Station)

Trying to Have Sex With My Husband (Full Grown People)

Is 49 Too Old to Change Your Last Name? (Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age)