I’m at work on a memoir about the fallout from my family’s loss of money in a Ponzi scheme during my childhood, and how my unexpected midlife assignment to take charge of my elder patriarchs’ finances forced me back to a psychological past I mistakenly thought I’d metabolized and successfully escaped. My work in progress about serving as an ambivalent executrix in a South I had eagerly fled is working-titled My Year of Living Posthumously.

Some of my journalistic work has a dash of creative flavor. But the purest personal stuff would include fiction published in The Brooklyn Review and essays in Seal Press anthologies and The Seattle Weekly. I’ve presented work at Seattle’s Salon of Shame, Seattle Lit Crawl, and Hugo House. I studied Comparative Literature (BA) at Dartmouth College and earned an MFA (fiction) at Sarah Lawrence College, and I taught creative writing at University of Washington Extension. I’ve gone to Vermont Studio Center as a resident multiple times, and I’ve also attended the Tin House Writers Conference.

Here's a piece called “Death of A Code Man.”

(Above Photo: These are my folks smooching on the edge of a cliff in Buncombe County, North Carolina, oblivious of their future child’s destiny to write about business and contemplate our fiscal freefall in her creative work.)