About

I have a bachelor’s degree from St. John’s College in Maryland, and a master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School, where I was the Harry Austyn Wolfson fellow in Jewish studies and a resident at the Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions. Before switching my focus to Jewish education, writing, and translation, I was a public school special education teacher in Tulsa, Oklahoma; before that, I was a 15 year old high school dropout.

My poems, essays, and translations from Yiddish and Hebrew appear in a number of publications in print and online, and I’ve taught about Jewish history, thought, and culture at universities, conferences, synagogues, and museums in North America and Poland. My writing has been supported by residencies, fellowships, and scholarships from the Yiddish Book Center, the Community of Writers, and the Glen Workshop, and I’m currently a Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow. I’ve also studied traditional Jewish texts and religious practices at institutions like Yeshivat Hadar and the Romemu Yeshiva.

When I’m not reading, writing, or teaching, I enjoy foraging for mushrooms, training in martial arts, visiting art museums and galleries, and exploring Virginia’s outdoors.