I am an interdisciplinary scholar and artist from coastal New England. I am currently based in a suburb of Philadelphia, where I live with my partner and dog. 

As a scholar, I’m interested in experiences of disorientation, unwanted transitions and transformations, grief, loss, and mourning. I look at these subjects in two primary ways: 1) through the works and writings of philosophers (primarily in the phenomenological tradition) and 2) through first-hand accounts of such experiences. Because I work primarily outside of academia, I rely heavily on open access articles/books/dissertations, publicly available qualitative research databases, oral history archives, memoir, nonfiction, and film.

Prior to completing my masters degree in social work in 2019, I worked for six years at New Harbinger Publications which is a publisher of psychotherapy manuals, self-help books, and workbooks in the behavioral therapy tradition. I have a masters degree in social work and have completed a yearlong program in narrative therapy with Jill Freedman and Gene Combs, as well as their advanced intensive. Though I hold an associate-level social work license, I do not currently practice psychotherapy or social work professionally.

My artistic practice entails creative nonfiction writing that often draws from symbolically-rich mediums including tarot cards, myths and folk legends. In 2024, I began making and incorporating field recordings into various aspects of my work. I am the author of Tarot for Change (Penguin Life, 2021) which the New York Times called “wise, generous, and gently radical,” and The Change Tarot with artist Xaviera López. I also write Offerings, a newsletter that functions as a public research notebook.

I love the ocean, reading feminist theology, cooking for loved ones, walking with my dog at the beach in the winter, horses, and planting a small number of things (peas in the spring, zinnias in the summer, garlic in the fall).