I'm an award-winning L.A.-based journalist focused on people living on the outskirts of society. My work interrogates dominant narratives to tell stories of those who transcend the limitations of prescribed identity.
I worked as a Contributing Editor at Playboy magazine for nearly ten years, and my work was anthologized in Little America: Incredible True Stories of Immigrants in America (Macmillan, 2020), the book that served as inspiration for the Apple Original Series.
I've profiled actors such as Lily Gladstone and activists like Pussy Riot's Masha Alyokhina, gone on the road with a female long-haul truck driver, exposed sexism in Hollywood, and immersed with women making lowrider culture their own.
My writing has been recognized by the Los Angeles Press Club, the California Press Women's Association, the National Federation of Press Women and the Media Industry News Editorial Board. I've been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Condé Nast Traveler and more.
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I hold an MFA in literature and creative nonfiction from Bennington College and a BA in music from New York University. I teach journalism at California State University, Northridge and am currently at work on a memoir.
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