I am a writer, teacher, and storyteller obsessed with the lives that history overlooks — the women at the edges, the families whose stories get buried, the communities that survive against every odd. My books move across genres — memoir, ethnography, fiction — because the truth, in my experience, rarely fits into a single form. I came into writing the long way around. I was born into silence — not metaphorically, but literally.
Author of Fugitive Archives: My Family and the American Myth of Belonging, A Country You Can Leave, Strange Trade: The Story of Two Women Who Risked Everything in the International Drug Trade.