About

I began my career as a journalist in New York City.

In the late nineties, after graduating from Barnard College, I became a staff writer at the Forward newspaper. I went on to freelance for a variety of national publications, including Elle, New York Magazine, and ARTnews, where I was a regular contributor.

While living in Brooklyn, writing about art and design, I joined forces with SeeThink Films to produce Alice Neel, an award-winning documentary about the eponymous New York painter. Soon after earning my first producer credit, I returned to print journalism—and to the Forward—becoming the national Jewish newspaper’s first L.A. correspondent.

Since returning to freelance life, I have taught creative writing workshops and Jewish-American fiction classes, written about cannabis in a Jewish context, and edited a wide range of novels, memoirs, and essay collections. My work has appeared in Tablet, JTANews, The Times of Israel, and the LA Jewish Journal, among other publications.

I received an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars, where I began work on my first novel. As a fiction writer, I have been awarded residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) and the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts.

I currently divide my time between Taos, NM, and Los Angeles, where I continue to work on my first novel.