I’m a writer, translator, and wrangler of several imaginary animals.
I also like to take pictures.
After spending two decades as a research scientist in oceanography, managing federal science funding, and at a climate center, I turned to fiction and translation.
My stories speak of weavers and botanists, circus performers and spies, physicists and painters, and ghosts.
More ghosts than expected.
I love to translate, mostly poetry and mostly from Catalan. I’m now working my way through the poems of the incomparable, astounding poet Felícia Fuster.
When not writing, translating poetry, or studying the ocean, I’ve tutored English as a second language, translated art criticism and scientific publications, taught yoga at a women’s shelter, run a marathon (slowly), and swum across the Hudson River.
I live outside New York City where I write in English, dream in Spanish, and throw myself into Catalan dictionaries.
