I'm a writer and creative health researcher based in San Francisco, twenty years into studying how health, disability, and life circumstance reshape a creative practice. I developed the Creative Health Cartography framework from over 100 in-depth interviews with artists navigating illness and change, and I write and host a podcast on the same subject at Create Me Free.

I'm a writer and creative health researcher based in San Francisco, twenty years into studying how health, disability, and life circumstance reshape a creative practice. I developed the Creative Health Cartography framework from over 100 in-depth interviews with artists navigating illness and change, and I write and host a podcast on the same subject at Create Me Free. I'm easy to talk to about the parts of creativity nobody puts in the artist statement: what happens when the medium you love stops working for your body, how burnout actually shows up in a studio, and why "just push through it" is usually the wrong advice.