was born and raised among the moss-drenched rooftops of Portland, Oregon and studied languages and art in big cities and small towns around the world, from Los Angeles to Madrid, Norwich to Missoula. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing at the University of Southern California and a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Montana, where she taught composition and poetry.
Throughout, she apprenticed myself to nature and human kindness while living in Costa Rica as a teenager, traveling through Europe, hitchhiking in Scandinavia, and working as farm-and-deckhand on a remote Southeast Alaskan island. Her love of the wild has led her on many backcountry adventures and to learning wilderness emergency medicine.
She has worked and volunteered in many fields, including post-secondary education, environmental justice, healthcare, legal aid, and state government. She finds simple joy in sharing her love of language, discovery, and the more-than-human world with others.
