About

I am a creative writer and a multi-media artist. I was born in Louisiana and was blessed to grow up in celebration of diversity through culture, cuisine, language, history and perspective. I am linked by my maternal grandmother to Bordeaux, France. Thus far, the remaining three ancestral branches are unknown. Stay tuned!

My M.F.A. is in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University. My thesis novel, an experimental travel memoir, is titled: Raquel recibió la oreja de Van Gogh. (Out soon in your neighborhood bookstore!)

Currently, I am an Assistant Professor of Spanish at a small, private college in a small town in northern Mississippi, near the Tennessee and Arkansas borders, the ancient land of the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Tunica and Quapaw peoples.

After twenty-five years of personal practice, I travelled to Hṛṣīkeśa, India, for intense study and training in the Garhwal Himalaya foothills. I am a 500-hour, Master yoga teacher in the AM Sattva Yoga tradition.

I founded Yoga Gaga, a style of yoga which incorporates breathing practice (prana), dynamic movement (laya), sacred gesture (mudra), mediation, voice (mantra) and a journaling practice for a whole body-mind-spirit presence. This style is available for all body-mind types and abilities.