Writing & Creative Life
I stepped fully into my writing life in 2025, after 25 years in the professional world.
Current work: a memoir-in-progress, You Don’t Have That Kind of Time, about a decade watching the people I love most navigate terminal illness. I’m also writing lyric essays and flash memoir and book reviews.
2024 Writer-in-Residence, Seattle Public Library Writers’ Room.
Active in Lydia Yuknavitch’s Corporeal Writing, Off Assignment, and Madeline Island School of Arts, GrubStreet Memoir Incubator, StoryStudio Chicago, and Hedgebrook VorTEXT.
BA, Economics, Rutgers University, 1995.
Professional Background
I’ve spent my career at the intersection of books, technology, and people.
I spent 15 years at Amazon, the last several building Amazon Publishing into a serious creative force, developing the “Content-Creators-as-Customers” model, attempting to build partnerships with bookstores, and helping writers find readers at scale. Before that I did the full range of Amazon things: new businesses, global teams, building products and programs.
After Amazon I went to the Gates Foundation, where I worked on financial inclusion, bringing basic banking and payment infrastructure to some of the poorest communities in the world, with a particular focus on women.
In 2019 I co-founded Eleanor, a boutique consulting firm for socially-minded businesses.
These days I’m writing a book.
Craft & Community
Board Member, Literacy Source. Cofounder, Old Girls Network. Mentor, Techstars. Women’s Board Development Program, University of Washington.
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