About Me

Bookbinder, illustrator and writer. I have a curious mind and passion for finding community in chaos.

Through my work I seek to find balance between introspection and play, the mundane and the arcane. My process generally bounces between analogue and digital, though analogue work is truly my happy place.

I’ve been a working as a bookbinder for over a decade, with a strong background in illustration and education in handcrafts. I’ve taught both contemporary and traditional bookbinding styles as well as papermaking and pop-up illustrations. When I’m not working freelance, I can be found working part time for Kristin Dunn Bookbinding and Design and Bookcraft Supply Co. helping with day to day operations as well as making contemporary bound portfolios, invitation folders, boxes, and binders.

As an illustrator, my work has been featured in online and print publications such as The Weekly Design Dispatch on design-confetti.com and in the Searchlight Goldbeam. My personal style runs the gamut from loose pen and ink linework to polished colorful spot illustrations.

As a writer, I primarily create personal essays around the themes of motherhood, birth trauma, mental health, Life with ADHD and Chronic Illness and the foibles and follies of human connection. Real slice of life stuff.

In my personal life, I vascillate between irreverence and sincerity. I love big, think (ahem…overthink) critically and enjoy raunchy humor, playing music with friends, reading tarot and talking astrology, as well as gardening with my spouse and kiddo, and taking catnaps with our two cats.

I’m on a lifelong learning journey, currently studying handpoke tattooing with Taylor at Love Always Tattoo, as well as several Domestika courses on everything from Graphic Design for Film by my favorite Annie Atkins to punch needle and sewing. (As an ADHDer, it’s all about hyperfocus indulgence and following the dopamine).

Photo by Lindseying Photography