About

I am about stories. The ones we speak out loud, and the ones we listen to…

With an MFA in stage design from Northwestern University, I have worked as a Chicago-based costume designer, storyteller, and educator in the theatre for the last 15 years.

After being honored with the 2025 SCBWI Tomie DePaola Mentorship Award for Illustrators, I turned to the Irish Folklore of my heritage in search of the kind of stories I want to tell.

I packed my bags, moved to the Irish countryside, and have just completed a postgraduate degree in Irish Folklore at University College Cork.

Freshly out of my mentorship and coursework, charged with inspiration and natural beauty, I am launching full throttle into full-time illustration and painting.

But that’s not all I’m about!

I am about dreams of sleeping and dreams of waking.

Light. Shadow.

I am about the great palimpsest that makes a delicious web of time and space

I am about birds and trees earth water and sky.

I am about beeeeeeees!

I am about animism. I talk to my teapot.

I am about materials. I wanna get my hands on em.

I am about Rumi. He is about me.

My pink and white dog, Owen, will sometimes eat some of my stick collection.

I play lots of music for myself and for my friends.

I love to sing with my sisters.

I’m about those things too.

I grew up on the Northeast coast of Turtle Island.

I have been living beside Lake Michigan for most of my adulthood.

My mother’s family is of Italy.

My father’s family is of Ireland.

I am about all these places!

Mostly I am ALL about MAKING things!

Paintings. Drawings. Sculptures. Costumes. Puppets. Masks. Music. Connections.

My life is about beauty and wonder, even in the mysterious dark!

I am about doing my best to share what I am ABOUT

and to live my life in collaboration with our dear Earth and her glorious wheel of seasons.