I’m a writer and editor living in Oregon with my cat. His name is Terence.

In 2018, Lambda Literary named me an Emerging LGBTQ Writer. I’ve published essays in Catapult, The Rumpus, Portland Review, Pidgeonholes, Entropy, Witch Craft, Origins Journal, Gertrude Press, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and more. My fiction appears in Newtown Literary, BULL, Maudlin House, and Ghost City Review.

In Portland, I help steer the ship at Lidia Yuknavitch’s Corporeal Writing. Lidia invited me to create my own job title so I’ve self-styled myself as Navigator, after the spice-soaked creatures in Frank Herbert’s Dune who bend space and time to get people where they need to be. I’ve also assisted Lidia in her workshops and taught some of my own.

I’m a freelance editor. Like all writers, I can be precious about my own writing. But when it comes to editing and shepherding the work of others, I relish in the ability to see the work for what it is. It's a joy for me to get in touch with an author's voice, feel out what they're trying to accomplish, and find the best ways to help them do just that. One word Lidia Yuknavitch has really drilled deep into me is opportunity. When doing developmental edits, these are the moments I'm looking for more than anything else—opportunity moments when the work is calling for the author to dig deeper or weave tighter.

My mother, a brilliant and complicated Soviet Jewish immigrant, died very suddenly in 2017. My memoir about her life, our relationship, and finding home through grief in my queer body, is currently out on submission.