I am an expansive, multidimensional, complex human being seeking to live my life fully and with heart. I am constantly learning how to love myself better and create my life with love. I am a shape-shifting creature who has made a home of the liminal and in-between. I transcend binaries, boxes, and blocks in imagination. I am a child of the earth, sun, and stars. I am healing and finding my way back into my truth, voice, and power.

I am made of the memories of the earth and stories of my ancestors. In my heart is the truth of who I am and the seeds of my becoming. I am woven with love, and the wisdom of all I will ever be and all I ever was. My cells are made up of old growth forest and ancient rock. And my blood moves with the rivers, and changing ocean rides. I am the mountain remembering itself. I am the moon, singing light into the night.

My Background & Experience

Writing and poetry are ​the blood, bone, and fire of my being. Which is to say, they are central to who I am​ and what I do.​ I started writing creatively when I was nine years old. When I was eleven years old, I wrote my first poem, and I published my first poem at sixteen. Since then, I have published and performed my work through the National Queer Arts Festival, the Poetry Project, RADAR Productions, LitQuake, and more. I hold an MFA in Poetry from Mills College, where I attended as a Community Engagement Fellow. As a fellow, I collaborated with local organizing projects such as Care Not Cops to bring reading, writing, and creating ritual with poetry into public space and political action. ​water/tongue, my first full-length poetry book, was published ​i​n 2019 and ​went on to become a Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Poetry in 2020.

My practice as a writer is interwoven with my lived experiences, and an ever present call towards healing, truth-telling, and restoring connection to my ancestors and the living world around me. Bridging writing and community as a teacher and facilitator has been one of the ways I have answered that call. Since 2008, I have been designing and teaching writing workshops at the intersection of creative, healing, and spiritual practice. I have taught workshops on radical dreaming, writing with ancestors, altar-making, poetry craft, and more. Most recently, I led 13 Names for Grief, a year-long, monthly workshop series exploring grief through writing. In addition, I am a healing arts practitioner with over fifteen years of experience in energy healing, spiritual and intuitive readings, working with ancestors, and more. From 2014-2018, I ran my own energy healing practice, providing accessible reiki to BIPOC communities, queer and trans people, youth, cis and trans women, disabled and chronically ill people, and survivors of violence. And I have been giving spiritual and intuitive readings to people in my community for over ten years.

Bridging my skills and experience as a writer, facilitator, and healing arts practitioner with the realm of grief, death, and dying, I began training and practicing as a death doula in 2019. My grief and death work includes holding grief circles, facilitating writing workshops centered on grief, providing grief support to groups and individuals, and guiding people in ritual and ceremony development to honor loss and change. As I continue to grow and evolve alongside this changing earth, my writing, facilitation, and death work are becoming increasingly focused on climate grief, ecological loss, and how being in relationship with the natural world can teach us about living, dying, and moving with change. This and all of my work is deeply influenced by and infused with ancestral and earth-based spiritual practice, and unfolds under the training and guidance of my teachers and mentors.

A full list of my work can be found here.