My background is in fiction, memoir and essay writing, although I also seem to have become a poet by default. I studied the history of writing workshops and conducted my first workshop as an undergraduate at Hampshire College, in Amherst, Massachusetts (1992). After I returned to the Bay Area, I graduated from the University of San Francisco (USF) with a MA in Creative Writing (1998), where I wrote a fictionalized memoir for my major project.

While I was enrolled in the MA program at USF, I continued to study the Amherst Writers and Artists method (AWA) with a peer in Oakland. Later, I completed the intensive training program in the AWA method and became an affiliate. I have been leading my own San Francisco workshops since 2000.

I am currently a part-time instructor at USF, where I teach academic research writing. I have also taught creative writing classes (short story, memoir and editorial) at the Academy of Art and Skyline College.

In addition to teaching, I have been published in several on-line publications, was a regular contributor to Match.com, and continue to publish poetry in literary magazines. I have revised my fictionalized memoir for publication submission, and am working on a chapbook of my poetry. I have also written a novel, which I am currently revising. These projects have made way for a new novel that's been sifting around in my imagination for a few years now, which I sometimes work on (and read out loud) during the workshops.