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Here I am, sitting in front of a lot of books.

WHO I AM

Reader/Writer
Mother/Daughter
Foodie/Baker
Planner
Advisor
Coach
Chicago native
Triathlete
Sparkle lover
Ice hockey player
Instagrammer

Wife
Sister
Friend
100lb-Bernedoodle walker
Podcast listener
Runner
Candy eater
Photographer
Knitter
Tea drinker
English teacher

I teach English to high schoolers at a boarding school in Connecticut. I read AP English Literature and Composition exams and serve as a teacher mentor for the University of Pennsylvania Teaching Fellows program. I’ve earned a Bachelor of Arts (Amherst College), an Education Master in Learning and Teaching (Harvard University Graduate School of Education), a Master of Arts in English (Bread Loaf School of English), and most recently a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing with a certificate in the online teaching of writing (Southern New Hampshire University).

As a writer, I hope to capture the complexity and joy of life in the New England boarding school world. On this site, I share what I know about trying to write fiction while teaching English, coaching, and doing the other tasks associated with helping to raise over six hundred other people’s children.