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 personal 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 a novel, An Ideal Marriage, about a late bloomer named Marina who marries for the first time at 48 and gets the surprise of her life.

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 meets and marries a recent widower. She assumed age and maturity would give her an edge on matrimony. How hard could it be at midlife? Her marriage would be extraordinary, filled with travel, arts, and culture. But Marina’s vision of marriage is that of a young person’s, and as idealistic.

She finds herself not just a newlywed, but an instant grandmother and stepmother in a demanding four-generation blended family. Instead of taking the world by storm with her handsome new husband (who turns out to be a stubborn homebody), Marina is tasked with a new reality: canceling the honeymoon when her father-in-law dies, comforting a grieving spouse, caring for her own ailing parents, and trying to resurrect a sex life with menopausal body parts. This was not the extraordinary marriage she’d held out for!

As her attachment to the idealized marriage begins to fracture her real one, Marina faces a reckoning. To save her relationship, she has to confront her disappointments, fall in love with the husband and marriage she actually has, let go of the fantasy she spent decades creating, and see that this messy, unpredictable partnership is exactly what she needed all along.

The novel is complete at 78,000 words, and I’m currently seeking representation.

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SELECTED PERSONAL ESSAYS

These Should Be the Real 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)