A lifelong northerner, she grew up writing creatively when not riding horses around her rural eastern Washington home. Inspired by an artist grandmother and mother who encouraged her writing pursuits, she published her first poem at age 12. Her writing and poetry have appeared in past issues of Vending Machine Press, SlushPile, The Sun, The Smoking Poet, The Human Touch Journal, SnapDragon Journal, Riverlit, and the 2014 poetry anthology Railtown Almanac.