About
I’m a fiction writer, poet, editor, and teacher based in Los Angeles, with more than two decades of experience working with language at every level — from a sentence that isn’t quite right to a manuscript that needs to find its shape.
My editorial work runs deep. For more than a decade I've served as a Senior Reader and Editorial Panelist at New England Review, one of the country's most respected literary journals, where I'm now one of the two longest-serving senior readers and have evaluated more than 3,000 submissions. Recent manuscript editing projects include Running Red Lights by Margaret Oberman — a mystery-thriller by a two-time Emmy-nominated Saturday Night Live writer-producer, currently on submission to literary agents — and The Forgetting Game by Chris Barclay (2025), a spiritual memoir I edited through to publication. I've also edited institutional publications for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, including Line, Form, Qi: Calligraphic Art from the Fondation INK Collection (2024) and the forthcoming All Impossible Deeds: A Report on the LACMA Art + Technology Lab, 2014–2025 (2026), as well as book-length manuscripts for BOA Editions.
I offer a full range of editorial services — developmental editing, line editing, copyediting, proofreading — as well as writing tutoring, mentorship, and consulting for individuals at every stage. I work across fiction, memoir, personal essay, narrative nonfiction, and academic writing, and I bring the same attention to a debut draft as to a manuscript preparing for submission.
My own fiction and poetry appears in West Branch, Adroit Journal, Cincinnati Review, Carolina Quarterly, Nashville Review, Texas Review, Laurel Review, The Common, and more than two dozen other journals. I hold an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from the Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Ph.D. in English from UC Irvine, and I’ve taught writing at institutions including UC Irvine, the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Normandale Community College, and GrubStreet.
If you’re working on something and looking for a thoughtful editorial eye, I’d be glad to hear about it.