photo by Gabriel Omnes, 2021

About me....where do I begin?

Despite the Russian-French names, I am actually neither. Nor am I a salad dressing. I'm a born and raised New Yorker with Italian and Mexican origins and proudly come from a family of food and music. When I wasn't slicing bread at my maternal family's Italian market in the Village, I was spending my paycheck at record shops and every so often would stumble across my paternal family's quirky album from the '60s released on ESP-Disk Records.

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I've lived in Olympia, WA where I earned three, quite possibly four evaluations from The Evergreen State College before stumbling into adulthood in Los Angeles, and then back to New York. In 2009, I followed in the footsteps of my jazz singer grandmother Stella Levitt (née Aguilar) and moved to Paris with no plan and no money. There, I began writing about life in France and publishing work in various publications while nannying, teaching English, and butchering the French language with my New York accent. 

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These days, I've swapped the Parisian hustle for the quieter Seine-et-Marne region (about 50m outside of Paris) where I live with my husband, son, and cat Le Tigre Gris Gris. When I'm not writing or moming, I'm doing Youtube yin yoga, hiking through the forest, breaking a sweat with dance cardio in my laundry room with "my girls" Missy, Janet, Karen O., and Xtina. I also play a surf blue 1950s Telecaster and wish there were more hours in the day to learn Italian and to knit. 

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Slanted and Disenchanted is my first novel.

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Thanks for visiting!