I was a creative writing major (poetry concentration) and Spanish minor at Oberlin. Junior year I studied in Córdoba on the PRESHCO program. Senior year I worked as a TA for Kim Faber’s Spanish 100 course, and I taught a poetry and prose workshop to other Oberlin students during Winter Term. After starting a band senior year, The Roulettes, I moved to Portland, Oregon to continue playing music. In Portland I worked for two years as a Bilingual Educational Assistant in a Spanish immersion kindergarten classroom. The Roulettes recorded an EP which was the first release on local record label Lucky Madison. I also continued to write poetry, and my work has been published in two Portland journals; The Cereal Box Review and Eye-rhyme journal, as well as Lumina. I moved back to my native New York City after two years in Portland. I have since been working as a Program Assistant at The National Book Foundation, and taught after-school Spanish classes to 3-5 year olds at a local day care center. I’m an MFA candidate in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and will teach a week-long poetry course to high school students later this summer. My new band, The New York Times, recently recorded our first EP and will be playing shows in the city this summer. Visit us at www.myspace.com/thenewyorktimes
