I grew up in a small town in central Maine and, following detours through Kenya, Mexico and New York, now live in Amherst, Massachusetts. After graduating from Amherst College, I was the Ives Washburn Fellow in the college’s Office of Public Affairs and, later, Assistant Managing Editor at Alfred A. Knopf. I have ten years of experience in trade and reference publishing and have worked with publishers such as Scholastic, HarperCollins, ABC-CLIO, Nature Publishing Group, Langenscheidt, and M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
My nonfiction writing features books and literature, artists and writers, travel, and food. My short fiction has appeared in several literary journals, and I’m currently at work on a novel called The African Bazaar. A fiction student in the Bennington Writing Seminars, I will receive my MFA in June 2011.