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Every morning, I practice writing a beautiful world into being.

Current projects:

My debut speculative fiction work.

In it, a little girl falls into her dad’s phone and gets stuck in a world that is part Dante’s Inferno and part Alice’s Wonderland. Complete and querying.

My newsletter, The Center for Numinous World-Building

I share research-informed essays and curate ideas for peaceful, developmental, multi-generational communities. Subscribe for news about my book’s publication.

My tango-focused publication, Awaken Tango

Here I share and curate research and innovation related to Argentine tango learning community development.

Select papers and articles:

• *In Search of Paradise: Gardens in Medieval French and Persian Poetry,* my award-winning senior thesis paper advised by John V. Fleming and Jerome Clinton and published in Analecta Husserliana, 2003
• Judgment and Acceptance while dancing Argentine tango: A data-driven approach to explore the inner experience of tango dancers, a research collaboration with Avik Basu, 2025
• Change Your Mindset Toward Learning, Change Your Child’s Future: Understand how language and metaphors structure one’s mindset toward learning and discover some SDE alternatives, Alliance for Self-Directed Education, 2021. ****

Past Ephemeral Writing and Art Projects

• 2001: 1times1, a cryptic web-based tango anthology/etiquette guide
• 2002: Alternate reality game “Pass the Numie!” headed by Central Numie Tracking Agency
  • with Anna Thanukos
• 2006: “We Will Go Outside Where The Wild Wind Blows” experimental dance collaboration
  • directed by Stefan Fabry, with Debra Christie
• 2008: Chapbook of 12 tango poems, blueprints for stiletto rocketships
• 2005: Convened The Global Tango Mar Vista Center for Tango Arts & Extremes
  • with Stefan Fabry, Dan Rizzotto, Jennifer Bae
• 2009: Launched Oxygen Tango with an anti-tango rally and demonstration
• 2010: Guidebook/game manual about tango called Separate Bedrooms: A Book About Tango
• 2017: An experimental social technology, The Operating Manual for Tango
  • with Andrei Andreev

Education:

• Princeton University, Comparative Literature
  • studied Creative Writing with Laurie Sheck
• Iowa Writers’ Workshop Summer Program
  • Speculative Fiction with Amy E. Parker

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