A LIFE BETWEEN WORLDS
A distinct literary perspective.
I have spent a lifetime crossing boundaries—between cultures, professions, perspectives, and expectations. My writing draws on those crossings, bringing experiences to life and finding unexpected connections between the personal and the universal.
I built a multifaceted career as a corporate attorney, entrepreneur, educator, and advisor. Along the way, I navigated diverse industries and complex human dynamics, developing an instinct for recognizing patterns, connecting disparate perspectives, and translating insight into action.
Those experiences have become an invaluable foundation for my literary work, expanding both the worlds I write about and the perspective I bring to them.
Through creative nonfiction, I explore identity, belonging, family, culture, and the complexities of human experience. My stories invite readers into unfamiliar worlds, where beauty, humor, and joy often coexist with difficult conversations about race, relationships, and the human struggle to belong.
What I bring to the page.
I am drawn to the telling detail—the characters, landscape, conversation, or contradiction. My writing is visual and immersive, rich with sensory detail that brings places and people to life. I enjoy finding humor in unlikely circumstances and beauty in unexpected places, often setting both against the more uncomfortable truths of our shared humanity.
My stories are grounded in personal experience. I strive to illuminate a cultural divide, challenge a familiar assumption, or offer readers the rare opportunity to walk in someone else’s shoes, without prescribing what readers should think or feel.
I don’t always write to provide answers. I write to reveal connections, open perspectives, and invite readers to see something they might otherwise have missed.
My professional life has taught me that understanding is most valuable when it leads to action. I bring that same conviction to my writing, pairing literary storytelling with a desire to leave readers with something meaningful to carry into their own lives.
Today, I write from beneath a canopy of coastal live oaks in Santa Barbara, California, drawing upon a lifetime of experiences across cultures, disciplines, and worlds.
I write to bring unfamiliar worlds within reach. And to leave readers seeing their own world a little differently.
Things worth noticing
Places. People. Books. Food. Objects. Conversations. Questions.
A collection of shorter observations and discoveries where magic, beauty, and grit collide.