Fifteen years teaching people how language works. A poet's ear. An editor's ruthlessness. And a standing fascination with what machines are doing to the written word.
I hold an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from San Diego State University and a B.A. in Literary Journalism from UC Irvine. As a U.S. State Department Fulbright grantee, I taught at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, building curriculum across cultural and institutional boundaries. Since then I've taught writing, rhetoric, and critical thinking to more than two thousand students — at UC San Diego, San Diego Mesa College, and Biola University — in courses on misinformation, cognitive bias, and the rhetoric of technology.
My poems and short fiction have appeared in literary journals including Red Ogre Review, Eunoia Review, and The Portland Review, with an honorable mention in Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers. My essays on AI, history, and the craft of writing run on Medium, where several have been editor-selected. I'm currently at work on a novel about a woman co-writing with an AI — a subject I know from the inside.
Alongside the writing life, I work as an editorial strategist for scholars, fellows, and founders: people with serious expertise who need it translated into prose that carries. I also design curriculum, and I evaluate the outputs of frontier AI models for style, register, and taste — literary judgment applied to machine writing. And for children — starting with my own — I design adventures.