About Me
Originally hailing from Southern California, I’m currently a senior at Fordham University in NYC, where I double-major in history and English with a creative writing concentration.
On campus, I work as assistant to the Director of the Creative Writing Program and help to facilitate visits from prize-winning and bestselling writers. I'm passionate about our work on initiatives to promote literary studies and uplift student voices.
Outside of this, I've spent the bulk of my last four years serving on various editorial staffs, including the fashion and lifestyle publication Mode Magazine and the university’s journal of record, The Fordham Ram. At the Ram, I’ve worked as a copy editor, assistant news editor, and, most recently, managing editor, completing my tenure just this past December.
One of my greatest passions is for fiction. I write primarily fantasy and realistic fiction, and I have a special love for the magical space between these genres. Honors for my short stories include a Scholastic Arts & Writing Competition national medal and, most recently, the 2020 Bernice Kilduff White & John J. White Creative Writing Prize.
My appreciation for writing propels my desire to contribute to the legal protection of writers' works. The complexities of the publishing and media realms are compounded by a rapidly changing digital landscape, so that now more than ever ever creators require the protection of their work from conception to realization to distribution. My work online and in print has given me the perspective and the drive to engage with larger conversations on these subjects.