I’m a writer.

I do a few different things.

• I’m a creative writer, working in literary nonfiction, with an MFA in CNF from the University of Arizona. My genre is a hybrid of memoir, essay, cultural criticism, and immersion journalism. I’m the author of BRUTALITIES: A Love Story, published with W.W. Norton. My creative work was named Notable in Best American Essays and has appeared in The Sun, Slate, Identity Theory, Brevity, Off Assignment, The New York Times (Modern Love), the anthology Letter to a Stranger, and elsewhere.

• I’m a freelance copywriter and content creator with over a decade of experience. I can bring your brand’s voice to life, no matter what you do. I mostly write for clients in the health, wellness, and lifestyle spaces, and for SaaS and tech, but I’m often up for an interesting project in a new space (definitely yes if it’s a little weird). I'm comfortable with quick turnarounds and I have *never* missed a deadline.

• I’m a professor, creative coach, and editor. I’m faculty at the University of Arizona Writing Program and I work one-on-one with private writing clients. If your essay is feeling like a mess or you want to talk craft, structure, and workflow while you work on your book, I got you. I work with writers at all levels and at all project stages, strictly in nonfiction.

  I teach small-group creative nonfiction writing classes and seminars. My classes are the classes I wish I had found when I was starting out: warm, generative, and trauma-informed, with value placed on process before product.

I’m a native New Yorker, a parent, and an athlete. I am based in Tucson, Arizona.

My last name has two syllables (rhymes with “sinus”).

My author photo is by Aidan Avery.