I am a writer, musician, professor and Episcopal priest living amongst the finger lakes in central New York.

I spent the first fifteen years of my adult life primarily as a professional harpist, and although I was classically trained, I found my greatest joy in writing and playing my own music with my harp/bass/drums band, Harp 46. We disbanded when I moved to NYC in 2015, but after a few years of musical floundering, in 2020 I went back into the studio for the first time in a decade to record a solo Christmas album. Transcendence, my next solo album, came in 2023, and I’ll be following up with Aphelion in fall of 2026.

I serve as Associate Professor of Practical Theology at The General Theological Seminary, where I have been teaching since 2017. I love it! Teaching is a very important part of how I show up in the world, and I teach courses ranging from “Death and Dying” to “Writing Spiritual Memoir” to “Spiritual Care for Trans* Families.” I’ve published in academic arenas and in more general-readership arenas, but my second book, White Knuckle Love: A Memoir of Holding, is probably my favorite. It is a book that draws on not only the year I trained as a hospital chaplain in Manhattan, but also traces my journey of coming out as a lesbian at various points in my life, my struggle to “land” after a job gone wrong and a painful divorce, and learning how to become someone new.

I believe that we are all continually being invited to become someone new: someone more real, more brave, more imaginative, and more playful - which is really the bottom line of not only that book but all of my work in the world.

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