I am a San Francisco-based educator and national journalist of 20-plus years, specializing in writing instruction.
I taught in San Francisco-area high school and middle schools for 15 years and have run Socratics Mentoring private instruction for 20 years.
I’ve reported on education for The Atlantic, New York Times and Washington Post and also written for National Geographic Traveler, Oprah Daily and a variety of literary publications. (See my writing website)
I teach writing for UCLA Extension, have also taught for Stanford Continuing Studies and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education and received teacher fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and U.S. Fulbright program.
I grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan and received my B.A. from Yale University.