My first book of poems, Lines The Quarry, explores the slow and quick violence of industrial and post-industrial capitalism, detailing the intimacy of collective disaster.
My recent poetry and nonfiction continues to engage with personal and collective trauma in order to develop pathways for healing. My poems and prose grapple with the ways climate collapse, perpetual war, and a brutal, winner-take-all economic system confound the possibilities for beautiful and meaningful life.
My writing seeks to name the unnameable in human suffering and to allow language’s limits to shape how a text might speak.
With the poet Sten Carlson, I co-authored a chapbook of poems entitled Lives of the Czars (nonpolygon, 2011).
I am a psychotherapist in private practice.