My writing has appeared in The New Farmers’ Almanac, The Park Slope Reader, The Park Slope Journal, The Linewaiters’ Gazette, The Harvard Salient, Peter Parasol, and Cellar Door. I’ve been awarded multiple residencies at the Byrdcliffe Art Colony, a Hertog Fellowship at Hunter College, and a George Peabody Gardner Traveling Fellowship (through Harvard, from which I hold a B.A. in Visual and Environmental Studies). My blog, After Zendik, offered the first comprehensive insider’s view of a cult that touched thousands of lives over forty years; coverage of my story has appeared in The Washington City Paper, on The New York Observer web site, in the (short-lived) magazine 02138, and in the books From the Ground Up and Grace Without God. Through April 9, 2017, I am kickstarting my Zendik memoir, Mating in Captivity: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/575700099/mating-in-captivity-a-memoir.
In addition to sharing my perspective on Zendik and the cult experience, I’ve spoken and given workshops (at the Northeastern Permaculture Convergence and the American Ethical Union Assembly) on gift economics; a Gift Circle I started in Park Slope was featured in The Wall Street Journal.
Raised in Brooklyn, I now live in Beacon, New York and Black Mountain, North Carolina with my husband, Gregg. Seasonally, I revise college admissions essays for overprivileged teenagers; cyclically, I realize that I’ve joined my own cult, and that it’s time, once again, to seek a new story.