I’m a fisherman’s wife, a CMV mother, and a nonfiction writer. My book, Remedies for Sorrow, will be published by Doubleday in April of 2023.

I was the keynote speaker at Moderna, Inc in March 2020, and my work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Brain, Child Magazine, Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (where it won the Editor’s Prize), The Denver Post, The Iowa Review, The South Loop Review, and elsewhere. I was a 2021 finalist for The Missouri Review Editor’s Prize, and I have influenced thousands of physicians, healthcare workers, and parents at hospitals, schools, medical conferences, and foundations. I also talk about CMV in coffeeshops, bars, offices, and parks. I do this in Alaska, sometimes, where I live from May to September with my husband and our four kids.

I’m represented by Wendy Levinson at Harvey Klinger Literary Agency. Please contact me to start a newborn CMV screening program in your hospital or a CMV education program at your institution.