I graduated from Western Michigan University with a bachelor's degree in Rhetoric and Writing Studies with a minor in journalism. At WMU, I took several professional writing, creative writing, and journalism courses.

My passion for writing began when I was a little girl. I wrote, illustrated, and manufactured hundreds of "books," which were really just pieces of colored construction paper stapled together. But the drive was there. I've wanted to be a writer since I was a young child, and the reason I pursued this dream in college was because of several inspiring, amazing, hardworking teachers I had. I am so excited about teaching English because I want to reach students the way my teachers reached me. I want to show my students what they can do.