A bit about me

Stories rule my days, from wine direction to writing, and they are found in the mundane beats of life: memories evoked or made by a meal, vignettes while in transit, and nudges from the natural world.

As a wine director and sommelier, I truly believe wine is a living product with stories that extend beyond the usual boundaries of time. I love curating pairings that consider the agricultural journey from soil to harvest to the presentation of a meal at the table, and on to the final act—and an enduring one—being memory.

In my fiction work, I often explore themes of reinvention, love, aging, and the imprint of history on cities. Some preoccupations that turn up in my essay work include the Late Romantic period across music and poetry, natural sciences, wine as agriculture, memory, the sonic-body connection of dance, and sourcing beauty in difficult times.

I have an MFA from New York University, where I was a Goldwater Fellow in Creative Writing, and a BFA in Media & Performing Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design. I have been accepted twice as a fellow at Vermont Studio Center. Recent work has appeared in EcoTheo Review and on my Substack: The Late Romantics.