book worm. travel junkie. beer connoisseur. politics nut. fickle writer. SF Giants fan. avid sleeper. hiking enthusiast. bon vivant. Litquake devotee. addicted to folding paper cranes.

member of Presence/Presença, a community for North American writers of the Portuguese diaspora / serves on the executive committee of Litquake, San Francisco's Literary Festival / has a BA in English Lit-Creative Writing from SFSU / is a Poetry Inside Out Instructor with the Center for the Art of Translation

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