I did my undergraduate at the University of Chicago and my master's at DePaul University. Until January 2017, I balanced my writing with my work as a neuroscientist, where I studied rodent models of both concussions and psychiatric disabilities. I left my PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania after the 2016 US presidential election to pursue my lifelong love of writing full time.

I currently live in Reno, Nevada (unceded territory belonging to the Numu, Wašiw, Newe, and Nuwu peoples), where I graduated from the MFA program in fiction at the University of Nevada, Reno, and received a graduate certificate in Gender, Race, and Identity. I write speculative fiction, primarily (secondary world) fantasy, across all ages (adult and kidlit (MG/YA) both). I also write both creative and journalistic nonfiction; for the latter, I focus mainly on science and science literary, academia, social justice, and public health. I'm represented by Erica Bauman at Aevitas Creative Management at Aevitas Creative Management.

• I'm the managing editor at Sword & Kettle Press, a tiny press of feminist speculative writing. We've run successful Kickstarters for both the Cup & Dagger Mini Speculative Chapbook series and the Hansel and Gretel chapbook Bewildered. We host the magazine Corvid Queen for feminist fairytales in addition to our handmade books.
• I used to be (but am no longer) the managing editor at Sidequest, an independent gaming criticism website which publishes writers of marginalized genders that grew out of the. gaming vertical at WWAC. (One of the coolest (and funniest) things to have happened to me is that my Mystic Messenger Trash series on Sidequest is officially linked on the Mystic Messenger Wikipedia page.)

My favorite games are JRPGs, I love cooking and baking, and I am always hankering for my next tattoo.