I’m highlighting my writing on this site.

I came to poetry in a roundabout way. An early interest in visual art led to a Painting major at RISD, studio practice, and then art handling for an art museum. I’ve always been an avid reader and writer, drawn to artists who employ text in their artwork. Text itself eventually became the focus of my own work. My current manuscript investigates the nature of perception, cognition, gaze, identity, and aesthetics. I suppose I’ve come full circle.

I don’t mean to imply I’m an artist who dabbles in the written word. I’ve considered myself primarily a writer for years now. Do I think of myself as an outsider, though? Yes, and my favorite writers (in English) are outliers, underdogs, misfits to the literary norm.