abstract painting with thick textured strokes and blotches

“The new year secretly wishes

you would take it up gently

so you could teach each other

how to dance.”

—from “The New Year Asks”

Image by Vojtech Bruzek on Unsplash

About me

I am a poet and writer from Portland, Oregon. Besides my love of words, I am also passionate about my neighborhood, healthy spirituality, working out at PDXFIT, community, trees, and lemurs. I am a founding member of the WE WRITE Community and the Springwater Community. I recieved an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and I teach writing and literature at Clark College in Vancouver, WA.

black and white headshot of Meredith Kirkwood a white woman in a knit cap with long wavy hair