Hello! Here’s a bit about me…

I was born in Concord, New Hampshire, and lived in a tiny town in that state for my childhood except for just over a year in Jamaica when my father moved the family to the island. I left home at fifteen to attend Northfield Mount Hermon School in western Massachusetts, and then went to Brown University, where I majored in English and American Literature, and Religious Studies. On graduating college in the mid-'90s, I lived in NYC's East Village and was a researcher at Details magazine. In my twenties, I moved to Missoula, MT for an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Montana, where I taught Fiction. On returning to NYC, I taught at Rutgers, and got an MA in Humanities and Social Thought from NYU. In addition to the University of Montana and Rutgers, I've taught writing and/or literature at York College/CUNY, the Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, the New School, and New York University, in its Higher Education Opportunity Programs (HEOP), in Liberal Studies, and in NYU’s Prison Education Program (PEP). I’ve lived in Brooklyn since 2001.