I’m a recent English graduate with a love for every part of the writing process, the publication processes through which we make writing public, and the learning that we achieve through dialogue. I graduated from the University of Mary Washington with a concentration in literary studies and a minor in digital studies. After spending three years as a lead consultant at the UMW Writing Center, I wrote thousands of shortform biographical stories and completed large-scale project proofs for Publishing Concepts, Inc. Currently, I am a legal writing specialist for immigration cases.
I learned English as a second language at a young age, and my life has since revolved around language and my relationship to it. As is the case with any powerful forces, language, writing, and communication must be harnessed with an awareness of the good they can create, and I want to promote such good wherever possible. My college and employment experiences have given me an appreciation for the affective powers of narrative and rhetoric, and I am interested in a continuing career that puts my understandings of both or either to productive use.
My website’s tagline comes from the Ursula K. Le Guin passage “A Few Words to a Young Writer.” In the full quote, she states, “A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight.”
Outside of work and school, you can find me contemplating multimedia fiction, strange poetry, structuralist theory, forests, rivers, symphony orchestras, public transportation, environmental and cultural history, the lyric essay, midcentury science fiction, and collaboration in all its forms. My favorite word is ‘dialogic.’