photography by Yaron Meron at Astound Creative www.astoundcreative.com/astounding/
I'm a writer and educator. My work explores Latinx identity and place. Originally from the USA, I draw on my experiences in California, Dublin (Ireland), Santiago de Chile and Melbourne (Australia).

Education
  • RMIT University, PhD (Media and Communication)
  • University of Melbourne, MA (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
  • University of California, Santa Barbara, BA (English)
Conference presentations
  • 'Food, Bodily Purity, Wellness and the Far Right' (2021) Just Food: Because it's never just food. New York University, USA, June 9-15, 2021.
  • ‘We Need New Words: An Interactive Exploration of Race and Language’ (2020), Activism @ the Margins, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 10 February 2020.  
  • ‘Problematising Sensitivity’ (2019), 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Crisis: Social, Environmental, Institutional, Australian National University, Canberra, 6 December 2019.
  • ‘Otherness in Creative Writing’ (2019),  POPCAANZ International Popular Culture Conference, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 3 July 2019.  
  • ‘The Air We Breathe: Beyond the National Story’ (2018), NonfictioNow Conference, University of Arizona, USA, 2 November 2018.
  • 'Writing from the Margins' (2017), NonfictioNow Conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavik.
  • ‘Translating Migrancy: The Politics of Writing in the Voices of Others’ (2016), International Australian Studies Association (InASA) Conference: Re-imagining Australia, Perth: 7-9 December 2016.
  • ‘Your story, my story, our story: The politics of collaborative writing’ (2016), Great Writing Conference, London, UK, 18 June 2016.
  • ‘All the Time Lost: Collaborative Migrant Fiction’ (2015) Graduate Research Conference, Melbourne: RMIT University, 04 June 2015.
  • ‘Polyphonics Australian Refugee Life Writing’ (2014) Graduate Research Conference, Melbourne: RMIT University, 13 June 2014.
  • ‘Fictionalising the Stories of Others: Using Collaborative Life Writing In The Classroom,’ (2014) National Association of Writers in Education Conference (NAWE), Bristol: NAWE, 15 November 2014.
  • ‘Making Tracks: The Fictionalisation of Australian Refugee Life Writing,’ (2014) Graduate Research Conference, Melbourne: RMIT University, 04 December 2014.