I was born in Athens, Greece, a child of corruption, stray cats, and stories. Adopted into the United States at eight years old, I have lived much of my life between worlds, two countries, two languages, two families, and two identities. That early physical and emotional displacement is the root of everything I write, teach, and study.
Writing became the only place I was allowed to build myself. To be myself. Teaching literature and writing became the tools I used to save others like me. Counseling is the place I learned to balance both.
For three decades, I have taught literature, composition, trauma narratives, and feminist writing, building an Honors program, mentoring students, and creating safe classrooms where young people can think boldly, write honestly, and question power without apology.
As an author, I write about girlhood, trauma, sexuality, shame, and survival. My memoir, The Virgin Chronicles, along with my other books and essays, explores what it means to grow up inside a female body and a world that makes demands we are not always ready to answer. My work has been described as gritty, lyrical, vulnerable, and unafraid because I have lived too long in silence to return there again.
I am now expanding my work beyond the classroom, pursuing a graduate degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with interest in female identity, grief, trauma, and multicultural healing. My goal is to integrate literature, narrative therapy, emotional development, and counseling into a future practice that treats story as medicine and voice as a site of liberation.
This site is the intersection of all of my lives as writer, educator, scholar, counselor-in-training, mother, immigrant, and woman. Every human being has a story, and in telling mine, my work endeavors to help people find the strength they need to tell theirs.