I’m a writer and speaker based in Nashville whose personal essays and creative nonfiction have appeared in Longreads, Good Grit, Nashville Scene, and in translation in Internazionale. My writing has been awarded a 2025 ASJA Award for first-person essay, selected as runner-up for the W.W. Norton’s Writer’s Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. My work has been supported by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Porch, and OZ Arts as a 2025/26 Art Wire fellow.

I’ve been a featured speaker and storyteller at events hosted by TEDx, Creative Mornings, Soho House, Nashville Design Week, Outsite, and more. I’m currently at work on my first book exploring gender, sexuality, and desire in the evangelical South. As an emerging memoirist, I am represented by Laura Usselman at Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency.

Originally from North Carolina, I sold everything I owned in 2022 and I’ve been living out of a suitcase ever since. I document the journey in Second Rodeo, a newsletter about reinvention: dispatches from traveling full-time, leaseless living, and prototyping my life, one experiment at a time.