I’m a writer, performer, survivor, and writing workshop facilitator based in Oakland, CA, who has led transformative writing workshops in the SF Bay Area for over a decade. Like so many others, I’ve been in love with writing, words and books since I was very young — and after my experience of trauma as a teenager/young woman, it was writing that brought me back into my breath, my voice, my possibility. I’ve been publishing my work since the late 1990s.