Read my latest piece in Huffington Post "I was a female chess prodigy. My story is eerily like Beth Harmon's."
Read my latest piece in The Independent "The Real Life Queen's Gambit" which was then featured in Episode 113: "I Was the Real Life's Queen's Gambit" on Writing Class Radio's podcast.
Most recently in Kentucky where I became a certified Reiki Practitioner, I will be heading to rural Tennessee for a writing residency at Sarasvati, where I will socialize donkeys, volunteer at the elephant sanctuary, and be part of the Buffalo Recovery Community. Most recently I earned a grant to work on my nonfiction book Check Mates.
A portion of my memoir "Hail Mary To Kentucky" was published in the anthology (HER)oics: Women's Shared Experiences During The Coronavirus Pandemic.
I'm also working on a fiction book of short stories to be called The AA Convention Had A Dunking Booth and publishing my chess teaching bible (a fictional story with chess lessons woven throughout).
Still teaching writing and chess online, my most recent writing class was "Write like a Chess Player" with Free Expressions.
For information about my chess coaching, go here.
A former scholastic chess champion, I've taught chess in NYC schools since I was 13, for the last seven years specializing in teaching chess in schools for special needs children. Being recently diagnosed with ADHD myself has only furthered my deep investment in changing the way autism is portrayed in media and entertainment. As a writer, storyteller, and producer, I foster environments and create productions that include neurodiverse casts and creative teams. My work reflects the diverse world we live in, in processes that are inclusive of those whose stories are being presented. I'm most interested in how we look at the world, each other, and our own lives, and how we avoid looking at it; how we connect, communicate, and learn. Or fail to. And try to. Rinse, repeat.
Also!
Award-winning writer (see below) and performer.
Co-founder/co-Artistic Director of now paused Slightly Altered States theater company.
Former Artistic Director of 20,000 square-ft media and performance venue in Long Island City, NYC, The Arc, where I co-facilitated, among other things, the first live 24-hour reading of The Mueller Report which livestreamed worldwide, and Elizabeth Warren's infamous 'Break Up The Tech' talk.
B.A. in Utopias and Dystopias from NYU/Gallatin. For my thesis, I traveled across the country visiting intentional communities and then had to strip in New Orleans at Big Daddy's to earn my way back (which turned into a book manuscript called The Boho Girls).
MFA in playwriting from Hunter College where I was mentored by Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit, and Samuel D. Hunter.
A portion of my memoir "Hail Mary To Kentucky" was published in the anthology (HER)oics: Women's Shared Experiences During The Coronavirus Pandemic.
I'm also working on a fiction book of short stories to be called The AA Convention Had A Dunking Booth and publishing my chess teaching bible (a fictional story with chess lessons woven throughout).
Still teaching writing and chess online, my most recent writing class was "Write like a Chess Player" with Free Expressions.
For information about my chess coaching, go here.
A former scholastic chess champion, I've taught chess in NYC schools since I was 13, for the last seven years specializing in teaching chess in schools for special needs children. Being recently diagnosed with ADHD myself has only furthered my deep investment in changing the way autism is portrayed in media and entertainment. As a writer, storyteller, and producer, I foster environments and create productions that include neurodiverse casts and creative teams. My work reflects the diverse world we live in, in processes that are inclusive of those whose stories are being presented. I'm most interested in how we look at the world, each other, and our own lives, and how we avoid looking at it; how we connect, communicate, and learn. Or fail to. And try to. Rinse, repeat.
Also!
Award-winning writer (see below) and performer.
Co-founder/co-Artistic Director of now paused Slightly Altered States theater company.
Former Artistic Director of 20,000 square-ft media and performance venue in Long Island City, NYC, The Arc, where I co-facilitated, among other things, the first live 24-hour reading of The Mueller Report which livestreamed worldwide, and Elizabeth Warren's infamous 'Break Up The Tech' talk.
B.A. in Utopias and Dystopias from NYU/Gallatin. For my thesis, I traveled across the country visiting intentional communities and then had to strip in New Orleans at Big Daddy's to earn my way back (which turned into a book manuscript called The Boho Girls).
MFA in playwriting from Hunter College where I was mentored by Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit, and Samuel D. Hunter.
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