I am a former ballet dancer and software engineer. These days I write about power dynamics and women’s bodies.

My memoir Spinning: Choreography for Coming Home was a semifinalist for Publishers Weekly’s BookLife Prize and a winner of the 2019 National Indie Excellence Awards. Other awards include the Elizabeth George Foundation Fellowship, the San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Award for Nonfiction, the Calderwood Fellowship for Journalism from MacDowell, and UC Berkeley’s Glushko Prize for Distinguished Research in Cognitive Science.

I am an alumna of Hedgebrook and a MacDowell Fellow. PROPOSITION, my novel-in-progress, is fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas and by a grant from the de Groot Foundation.

I live in Oakland with my spouse, our three children, and two high-maintenance rescue cats. My heroes are Gloria Steinem, Pope Francis, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

SPINNING: Choreography for Coming Home
Brain Changer: A Mother's Guide to Cognitive Science
Mamas Write: 29 Tales of Truth, Wit, and Grit
Tiny Feet, Giant Steps
Multiples Illuminated
A Band of Wives: Nothing But the Truth, forthcoming October 2012

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co-founder of Moxie Road Productions
ballet teacher

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