Welcome

I’m a sixth-generation Californian who wandered far afield after college—to Madrid, then Boston for an MFA, then NYC. I left a librarian job at the New Yorker to write travel books; lived again in Spain, then worked as a freelance journalist in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico, and suburban D.C.

In September, 2024, I will be returning to the San Francisco Bay Area for a two-year Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. My plan is to complete my in-progress novel, August.

My short fiction has appeared in many journals and three anthologies. My first collection, Aliens and Other Stories, won the 2013 Washington Writers Publishing House Fiction Prize.

I’m delighted to announce that my second collection, Beautiful Bob’s House Museum, will be published in spring, 2026, by Betty Books.