Supported by a 2009 Individual Artist Fellowship award from the Oregon Arts Commission, I am finishing an ethnographic memoir - Sacred Threads – on my experiences as anthropologist and family member in Nepal.  Recent writing appears in The Gettysburg Review,The Truth About the Fact, Fringe Magazine: The Environment Issue, Oregon Literary Review, In the Mist: An Outdoor Literary Magazine, and The Crab Orchard Review (which chose my essay "Ama" as a finalist for the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize).

Born and raised in Seattle, I earned my PhD in cultural anthropology from Stanford University and have worked as a researcher, college and high school teacher, grantwriter, non-profit administrator, and urban farmer. I currently serve as a graduate advisor in the Master of Arts Program in Environmental Studies at Prescott College, Arizona.

I live in Oregon with my partner Jerry and our eighty five pound standard poodle, Django. We divide our time between Portland and our property in northeastern Oregon where we listen to coyotes howl and try to grow organic vegetables and fruits.