CURRICULUM VITAE

BOOK

Hate Mail: Thank You for Reading, Vine Leaves Press, 2022

Relevant articles:

San Francisco Chronicle: Former S.F. reporter discovers the poetry in readers’ oddly entertaining hate mail

ABC7: Turning hate mail into works of art

San Francisco Standard: How Turning Hate Mail into a Book of Poems Liberated One Reporter

AWARDS

First Place, Blog/Opinion, San Francisco Press Club Awards, 2022, “San Francisco has a major image problem”

Notable mention, The Best American Science and Nature Writing (Houghton-Mifflin), Recovery Season (originally published in Orion magazine)

SELECT TV APPEARANCES

Book lovers seek to boost BART readership (KPIX)

San Francisco newspaper exodus reporter reports on her own departure from the area (Fox Business News)

Why people are leaving the Bay Area (KTVU)

Radio: Sirius XM, KCBS, CBS Los Angeles

EDUCATION

M.A. English, University of California at Irvine, 2020

Concentrations: 18th- and 19th-Century literature, literature and science, botany and poetry

B.A, English, University of California at Berkeley, 2016

Magna Cum Laude, Honors in English Major 

Minor in Creative Writing

EXPERIENCE 

Storyteller, Bay Area Rapid Transit, 2022-Current

Features Reporter, SFGATE, 2021-2022

Freelance Writer and Editor, San Francisco, 2015-2020

Producer, Nexstar News (national news wire), 2021

Reporter and Homepage Editor, SFGATE, 2017-2019 

Lead Writer, ViewFind, San Francisco, 2016

Social Media Manager, Yellow Pear Press, San Francisco, 2015-2016

Workshop Facilitator and Academic Tutor, UC Berkeley, 2013-2016

FELLOWSHIPS AND MORE

 Member of The Writers Grotto in San Francisco

Recruitment Fellowship (University of California at Irvine, 2019)