For as long as I can remember, I have been writing. I am fascinated by the myriad of ways in which people use language. My master’s degree in applied linguistics resulted in an ethnographic research project around my own family’s language and identity loss. I am currently working on a memoir expanded from this academic work.
Originally from San Francisco, I often write about my childhood imaginary land within the walls of an some old Victorian.
Current creative projects include ongoing collaborative work centered around the expansion of voices in linguistic research, and when I am not writing, I spend my time developing my own communication practice as founder of Sereia.
I live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with my family where I am often re-reading parts of my favorite Michael Agar book, Language Shock, or listening to Turkish pop music.
The Serbia Project
A family ethnographic project and memoir around language and identity loss
Middle of Nowhere
We had boxes and boxes of these episodes on cassette, organized alphabetically by show title. Most of these we never listened to again. When we did replay them, we realized that they were mostly just filled with really bad spy show sound effects.
Transcripts
Still, there we were, not only watching Head but stopping the VHS player every thirty seconds to write down the dialogue, verbatim, into our notebook.
Broken Glass
My mom had told us to clean up the broken glass, and we had started to explain in weird deep voices about the getaway tunnel, and Napoleon Solo was just about to escape from his captives, and then we’d clean it up. She didn’t care.