Welcome to my website! Hello and welcome to my website! I am an odd combination of fiction writer, public interest lawyer, and Latin Ballroom dancer. Please make yourself at home and feel free to peruse an excerpt of my first novel, SWALLOW, my photos -- mostly of dancers and dance competitions,

and my blog, Swan Lake Samba Girl (which is named after the moniker given to me by my first Latin dance teacher, Tatiana, because I could not for the life of me rotate my pelvis properly and hence looked like I was doing balletic tip-toed bourrées instead of sexy samba voltas), where I muse about the worlds of ballroom and ballet (and other kinds of dance) and journal the trials and tribulations of being a skinny white girl trying to learn Latin. Enjoy!