A native of Alabama, she has always been drawn to photography but spent the creative energies of her youth in the study of musical performance. After a life-altering move to the state of Alaska in 2007, she redirected that focus and began an intensive self-study in the history of photography, mechanics of cameras, film and the darkroom, and absorbed the concepts of composition through workshop participation. Her work is heavily influenced by her surrounding environment of the Arctic Ocean coast, a record of her daily emotional struggles living in an isolated environment and dealing with cultural displacement.