a little more
ABOUT ME.
I started writing screenplays at nine years old on loose binder paper spread across my bedroom floor. I didn’t have a computer, a phone, or any understanding of screenplay format, so the scripts contained no scene headings, no action lines, and almost no male characters. I had no idea how to write someone who didn’t sound like me. I just knew I wanted to make something of my own.
That impulse never really went away. Today, I’m a writer, editor, and recent graduate of UC Santa Barbara, where I studied Film & Media and Professional Writing & Editing. Though my interests range across analysis, editing, and storytelling, they tend to circle back to the same question: What keeps us engaged? I like figuring out why certain stories stay with us, what makes some ideas feel compelling, and why we keep turning the page, watching the screen, or thinking about something long after we’ve left it behind.
This site is where I document the consequences of being unable to leave those interests alone.
One line I wrote in seventh grade still feels surprisingly accurate: “When I write, I always have a snack next to me. If it goes untouched, the writing is going well. If I’ve devoured every last crumb, the writing probably isn’t.”
That relationship to writing—part obsession, mostly careful attention—has followed me ever since. Years later, it evolved into both a passion for editing and an honors thesis on how short-form videos guide audience attention.
Through my minor and editorial internship with Starting Lines, UCSB’s student anthology, I worked with everything from personal essays to analytical and research-based writing. Spending so much time reading and editing the work of others sharpened my eye for structure, clarity, and detail. Friends mostly experience this as me instinctively proofreading signage and sending strangely formal text messages, but that perspective has been invaluable in my own writing, helping me approach the craft with greater intention and patience.
Writing takes up a lot of my time, but not all of it. I spend the rest hiking, baking, video editing, and listening to entirely too much electronic pop music. Hiking is probably my favorite because it gets me away from my screens, and because I’ve been lucky enough to grow up in California, where forests, mountains, coastlines, and more trails than I could ever finish were never very far away. There’s a certain excitement in not knowing what you’ll find around the next turn.
Years of studying writing and media have made me deeply attentive and occasionally exhausting to watch television with, but it’s not about perfectionism. It’s about curiosity. I genuinely enjoy noticing the small decisions that make a work more or less effective.
What began as dialogue on binder paper grew into a fascination with communication in all its forms. Whether I’m writing, editing, or researching, I bring the same curiosity that started it all—along with considerably fewer punctuation errors.
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