Poetry

Poems of mine have been published by ASHERAH: Innovations in Jewish Ritual and Prayer, The Christian Century, Gulf Coast, ONLY POEMS, Ninth Letter, poetry.onl, Redivider, West Trade Review, and elsewhere. I am a Best of the Net nominee, a runner-up for the MoonLit Getaway Poetry Contest, a finalist for the Lucky Jefferson Poetry Prize, and an honorable mention for the Northwind Writing Award. I have poems in the anthologies Ache: The Body’s Experience of Religion (Flipped Mitten Press, 2024) and Northwind Treasury (Raw Earth Ink, 2024). My debut chapbook I wake up tangled in pillows and sheets was the winner of the Slice Poetry Chapbook Contest (Fork Apple Press, 2025) and a finalist for the Frontier Poetry Debut Chapbook Contest (2024).

Chaplaincy

I work as an interfaith hospital chaplain in Boston, specializing in providing spiritual care and counseling to people who have cancer along with their loved ones. I am board-certified by the Association of Professional Chaplains, am certified in Compassionate Bereavement Care, and am working towards certification in Somatic Experiencing trauma resolution. When I was a student at Harvard Divinity School, I was part of a research team that studied and wrote about Buddhist chaplains. I am currently working on a chaplaincy case study for academic journal publication. With a colleague, I led a webinar explaining what a chaplain does.

Dharma

I am trained by Narayan Liebenson (founding teacher of Cambridge Insight Meditation Center) to teach basic meditation practices in community settings. I regularly lead the 35 & Under Sangha (community) at CIMC. I also have studied the Buddhist language Pali, and I translated the Metta Sutta. Before I became a chaplain, I was a Retreat Support Fellow at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and before that I was a teaching assistant for the Antioch University/Carleton College Buddhist Studies program in Bodh Gaya, India.

Play

I am a certified leader of the body wisdom modality InterPlay. My masters thesis explored connections between Buddhist texts and play/playfulness. I also contributed a book chapter titled “A Playful Dharma: Connecting to Our Bodies, Connecting to One Another” in Refuge in the Storm: Buddhist Voices in Crisis Care (North Atlantic Books, 2023). An earlier version of that essay was an HDS blog post and I presented on it in an HDS webinar.