writer | story midwife | rabble-rouser | Healer

Our Stories Will Save Us

Creating is an innately human act. I believe that by nourishing and nurturing our relationship to creating we can be better humans. When we are better humans, the whole world benefits. I help people make space for creativity and thereby experience their own version of personal growth. ​

In addition to my work with Bewonderment, I also am a writer and editor. I’ve served two terms as Writer-in-Residence at Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts and am on the Board of Directors for the East Central Regional Arts Council. I am the recipient of a 2020 Creative Support For Individuals Minnesota State Arts Board grant to support my research and writing on the topic of creativity and wellness, as well as a 2021 grantee from the East Central Regional Arts Council.

• MA Counseling Candidate | training in narrative exposure therapy, trauma-informed care at Adler Graduate School

• MFA in fiction writing from Goddard College

• MS in rural sociology from the University of Missouri-Columbia

• BA in english from Webster University