I’ve always loved books and reading, growing up getting lost inside other worlds and turning to books for information or comfort. After realizing there are people in the world who get paid to create stories that other people can dive into, I knew I wanted to be a writer when I grew up.

I’ve spent most of my life learning to write. Write well and creatively, at least. I mastered writing in English sometime in elementary school. There’s actually a funny story from one of my visits to Norway when an acquaintance thought I was in my 20s and hadn’t yet learned to write.

But I’ve spent most of my adult life learning to craft stories: double majoring in English and Writing from the University of Pittsburgh and then getting my MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University.

I fell in love with travel after a semester in Prague, studying Eastern European Literature. I traveled as much as I could, taking overnight buses and staying in hostels in cities like Paris, Budapest, Istanbul, and Warsaw. I’ve since been to over 65 countries and lived in 6 states and 3 countries.