My Story

As a little girl, I stepped slowly through the woods behind my house. I swore I heard voices whispering, and while I saw nothing but sticks and sky, I felt spirit all around me. I dreamt of things that often came true, and I innately, instinctively believed in magic.

But like so many people, I was taught that magic did not exist. I felt people’s discomfort whenever I spoke of what I saw, and I quickly learned to hide my experiences. I buried them so deep inside of me that I forgot that they existed, and by the time I graduated college, I felt very sick, most of the time.

I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, Sjögren’s Syndrome, and temporal lobe epilepsy, but then, I started seeing strange coincidences everywhere. I started following them wherever they led, and to my great surprise, the chronic illnesses I’d been struggling with all disappeared and I started experiencing increasingly wondrous events.

All that was buried came rushing back, and I’ve been sharing my true magical stories ever since.

From 2015 to 2019, I wrote the Fleeting Connections blog, completed my first book (a literary memoir titled Synchronicities), and launched the online publication The Magic Guide.

For six years, I released a new chapter of The Magic Guide with every new and full moon. During that time, the guide was endorsed by a clinical psychologist and praised for invoking more awe, wonder, and synchronicity in readers’ lives.

I ended The Magic Guide in November 2024 in order to focus on completing my next book project — a contemporary fantasy series inspired by my experiences.

Before all this, I studied film and physical anthropology at Vassar College, conducted research with one of the world’s foremost primatologists, and worked at Northwestern University’s Center for International Human Rights.

A former columnist for Horoscope.com, my writing and magical experiences have been featured in numerous podcasts and publications, and in 2022, my essay “To Walk in Clear Skies,” detailing my ancestral connection to the Salem Witch Trials, was published in the 77th issue of the Lincoln Center Theater Review.

A longtime New Yorker, I now live in Ohio with my husband and cat, where I eat cinnamon bread and experience real magic every day.