From 2002-2005, I honed my storytelling voice on stage at The Moth StorySLAMs (open-mic storytelling competitions), performing at places like the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and the Bitter End. After winning several StorySLAMs, I went on to write, produce, and perform a one-woman show at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2005 to sold-out houses. I then adapted my show into a memoir, The Devil, The Lovers & Me: My Life in Tarot, published by Dutton (hardcover 2007) and NAL (paperback 2008) at Penguin Publishing Group.

After going on tour with my memoir (Borders in the Time Warner Cable Center in NYC; Book Soup in LA; JCCs in Detroit, MI, and Scottsdale, Arizona, etc.), I got so sick of myself and my stories that I started helping other people tell their stories, which turned out to be some of the most fulfilling work of my life.

From 2008 to 2013, I taught memoir, creative writing, and humor writing through Mediabistro, Gotham Writers' Workshop, UCLA Extension Writers' Program, The Open Center, and New York Writers Workshop. I loved helping adults shift their narrative from victim to active protagonist. That work developed into a thriving private practice, where I helped clients craft book proposals and manuscripts that landed them top agents and sold to prominent publishers.

When I became a mother in 2013, my focus shifted to teenagers. I've now spent the last decade helping them with writing contests and college essays. While I love seeing them get into schools like Yale, MIT, and Harvard, what I love most is watching them own their voice during a time when the world is trying to tell them what to be.

I never stopped writing and performing.

I have told stories for "Listen to Your Mother" at South Orange Performing Arts Center in 2015; MAPSO Storytelling Show in 2019; Montclair Storytelling Salon’s "A Warming Place" in 2024; "The Porch" at Kaatsbaan in 2025; "Late Night Storytelling" hosted by Ophira Eisenberg at the Nantucket Film Festival in 2025, and Cat Greenleaf's "Storyhour" at the Algonquin Hotel in 2026.

My personal essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, Good Housekeeping, Salon, and POPSUGAR.