Mary’s College in San Francisco. She teaches Arabic dance at Girls Inc., and Twitter-follows food trucks obsessively. Her first-person essays have been published on KQED/NPR, in The San Francisco Chronicle, and several other Bay Area/California publications and she’s the recipient of a Vermont Studio Center Artist’s Grant. She graduated from UC Irvine's Creative Writing Program and earned an MFA in Fiction Writing at St. Mary's College of California.