I’m a writer and visual artist hailing from Southern Maine and living and working in Boston, Massachusetts. My work explores the fragility of memory and place and their connection to identity, focusing on small, ordinary observations and questions about belonging, loss, and self.
My poetry and prose centers around these connections and on the tension between disappearance and endurance: what gets lost, what is held onto, and what continues to return despite attempts at erasure.
I hold my BFA in English from Mount Holyoke College and my MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson college.
I am drawn to dusty spaces, crumbling towers, and old tombs—the older the better. My creative practice moves between poetry, prose, and visual art to explore how memory, place, and identity shape one another. Beginning with overlooked details of everyday life—a familiar road, a lost object, a moment of absence—I consider larger questions of belonging, loss, displacement, and selfhood.
My work is particularly interested in the tension between disappearance and persistence: what time erases, what remains, and what we carry with us. I approach memory as fluid and continually reconstructed, shaped by perspective, place, and the passage of time. I am drawn to the emotional weight that accumulates around ordinary objects and landscapes, and to the traces people leave behind in the places they inhabit.
Growing up in Southern Maine, with strong familial ties to Ireland, has shaped my attention to landscape and the associations that make places meaningful. Now living and working in Boston, I continue to explore how places change as we leave, return to, and remember them.
Through poetry, prose, and visual art, I use observation, language, and formal experimentation to investigate what remains, exploring the fragile and persistent traces through which we construct a sense of place, history, and self.