Hailing from North Carolina and a family tree ripe with educators, I knew as early as middle school that I wanted to teach. In high school, I even took notes on my teachers’ different teaching styles!

I was privileged to attend small schools that valued academic rigor, curiosity-driven connection-making, critical thinking, and creative expression. During my first years of teaching, I sought to replicate those experiences for my own students, integrating music, art, and philosophy into my English classes.

At the same time, I was trying to maintain my own hobbies—composing, conlanging, worldbuilding, and writing—and in the process, I realized that these pastimes were not just interests that occasionally intersected with my curricula. No, they had for years been exercising the same intellectual and creative muscles by which I designed that curricula. In crafting Hamlet assignments and developing ways to understand argument structure, I was finding the same joy I got from writing string quartets and building original grammars.

A few years into my teaching career, I had led lessons in Humanities, STEM, and the arts and had worked with students from grades six through twelve. This two-way variety invigorated my work even more. To this day, even as I create with a specific audience in mind, I’m conscientious about how the work fits into two bigger pictures: I want each work of mine, however focused or broad, to facilitate cross-disciplinary connections and eliminate students’ need to later “un-learn” content or models.

Thus began what has so far been seven years of joyous creating, tweaking, and refining instructional media. This website contains some of the fruits of my work, but my garden of new projects—both personal and professional—is busy and plentiful. Curious about what’s in the mix, or want to commission an addition to it? Let me know! Whatever it yields, it will be joyously and carefully crafted.