Like most people, my love of writing started as a kid with fantasy stories (Magic Tree House, anyone?) until I discovered poetry in middle school. I spent most of high school and college studying and writing poetry with the great Carla Panciera, Peter Sacks, and Jorie Graham. I’ve taught poetry to high schoolers in Shanghai, China, and I’ve retraced the steps of Anna Akhmatova in St. Petersburg, Russia.
In my senior year of college, I took a class with Michael Pollan on narrative science journalism – something I had never heard of before – and fell in love with it. What better way to communicate truth than through stories? Since then, I’ve traveled to Brazil, Denmark, Saba – and now New York City – to find stories.