🐶 My pup Maggie is my 24/7 sidekick & diligently naps at my feet while I scribble away in pubs. She has her own passport & has lived in 4 countries in her 4 years of life!

🧳 I’m an American expat and have been nomadic since April of 2020—living out of one single suitcase until I decide what to do with all my stuff in storage…

🧚‍♀️ I’ve been happily self-employed since 2014. As a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be, but I always knew I'd be my own boss, & I honestly don't think I'm employable any other way 😂

🖼 I did my undergrad at UCLA in Art History, Political Science, and French, and a curatorial Masters at the San Francisco Art Institute. While I hope to never spend 20 pages describing single paintings ever again, I can honestly say that going to art school taught me everything I know—about ways of seeing, how to think critically, and why we need art to examine the human condition

🎓 My dream job would be to acquire new PhDs for the rest of my life (while, of course, writing books & articles along the way). So far, no one has offered to pay me for this.

🧈 I am very proud of my Italian heritage and believe these nonna genetics have caused my profound love of food. While living in France I found myself penning full essays about globs of butter and juicy summer tomatoes, and I feel a perfect scoop of gelato could nearly bring me to tears

📖 Actually, I’m an HSP that feels most forms of art could bring me to tears. I’ve been to several hundred concerts in my life, on top of being an avid reader, and I wish it was still normal to read books aloud to each other as a past-time, à la Pride and Prejudice

🌊 I am a true ambivert, I am obsessed with road tripping around Europe, my happy place is the sea, I am an insane night owl, and my love language is throwing dinner parties

🖋 My writing is inspired by Joan Didion, Hemingway, MFK Fisher, Katherine May, Patti Smith, & so many others

🗞️ I actually embarked upon a journalism path somewhat accidentally. Being a travel writer was my dream for ages, but I never believed it was a feasible career. Years later while toying around with a manuscript I realized agents would want to see published work, so I began to research the process. After learning the ropes about breaking into the field with zero experience (and realizing it was WAY easier than the myths out there would have you believe…), I knew I wanted to share it with as many writers as I could 💛