I'm currently a second-year student in the Linguistics Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I work primarily in phonology and its interfaces; you can read more about what I'm currently working on here.

I maintain the Graduate Linguistics Student Association's website, where you can and should go to buy excellent UMass publications.

I grew up in a small town in New Hampshire, and escaped to the comparatively hip and urban farmlands of Western MA. I did my undergraduate work at Hampshire College, where I came to appreciate inquiry-based education and learned that putting "r" back in coda position can make one sound wicked smaht. I then traveled the long distance across town to UMass, where extensive contact with Bostonians has been inducing occasional returns to r-less-ness.

My non-academic interests include cooking, knitting, gardening, science fiction fandom, inexpert tinkering, fighting with Linux, and spending quality time with my cat.