I am a writer.

I am also a mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, teacher, horsewoman, backpacker, water-lover. I am a fifth generation Wyomingite who loves the wide horizons, dynamic skies, and sage-covered hills of the place where I live. I believe my purpose on this earth is to hold all beings with compassion, gentleness, and strength, to seek awe and solace in wild places, and, through my art, to nurture connections with others who are seeking to know the world from a bone-deep, heart-true place.

My work has been published in Orion, Souvenir Lit Journal, Western Confluence Magazine, and the anthology Atlantic City: Voices from a Powerful Place. I have also been featured reading my work on Public Radio International’s Living on Earth program. I teach classes in creative thinking and writing for the University of Wyoming’s Honors College.

I was born in Rawlins, Wyoming and raised in the Red Desert and the Wind River Mountains. After I completed my M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Idaho, my husband and I returned to Wyoming in order to live in the place that we love, surrounded by the family and friends we share it with.  We now live in Laramie, Wyoming with our son, two dogs, one cat, and one horse.