Bio
After graduation from MIT, I taught with Teach for America in New Orleans. I then returned to Boston to teach at a charter school for two years before beginning graduate school at the University of Virginia. I earned masters in sociology and English before embarking on environmental consulting. From there, I continued a mix of freelance writing, editing, and other work, including teaching for over a decade at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. I specialized in rhetoric and composition but also led the Science of Happiness class for several years and created and nourished a series of service learning initiatives. My writing and editing experience includes medical and technical writing as well as journalism and academic prose, including indexing. My translation (German to English) has included medical articles as well as radio drama and poetry.
I am open to representation for several projects, including:
• The Committee on Light: Richmond's first police inspector has to keep a black murder suspect alive long enough to solve a case of police corruption in Richmond, Virginia, as the hope of Reconstruction fades into the night of Jim Crow. (historical fiction)
• Ghostwriter: Tara Wright takes a job ghostwriting the memoir of a woman whose husband went to jail for federal fraud and child pornography but slowly realizes the web of manipulation and deceit may actually extend far beyond him. (upmarket commercial/women's book club)
In addition, I have three plays available for production:
• Wreck of the Patriot: a prisoner's fantasia imagines Donald Trump as Aaron Burr, who tries to salvage his reputation as a Founding Father by recounting the machinations of Thomas Jefferson and the grief over losing his only daughter.
• A Human Experiment in Nerve Division/Compensation: a historical figure, Dr. Henry Head has a nerve severed to learn how the damage heals but really has to learn how to handle his encroaching Parkinson's disease and the confessions of his dying wife, Ruth Mayhew Head, as he chases a Nobel prize.
• Baby Steps: a couple has to cope with pregnancy and one partner's change in gender amid a family history of violence and bigotry.