artist statement
I create work that challenges the narrow menu of choices society offers for partnership, family and friendship. Drawing from my experiences as a human, a matchmaker, and from millennia of Jewish wisdom, my storytelling and poetry attempt to explore the evolving nature of love. A radically inclusive, non-judgmental lens offers a prism through which to celebrate the creative, iterative ways we can reimagine relationships beyond convention.
MY BEATS
JEWISH
Curating Dating for Pandemic Semitics
Jewish insider, 2020
You Are Not Alone
Jewish insider, 2021
Should I Date Jewish?
Tribe 12 Blog, 2018
millennials & gen Z engagement | jewish history | modern israel
LOVE
These Pandemic Dating Trends are Here to Stay
Generocity, 2021
‘Love in the Time of COVID-19’ Advice Column
Jewish Exponent, 2021
Do I Have Too Many Dealbreakers?
Tribe 12 Blog, 2020
matchmaking | dating trends | queer & transgender relationships
CULTURE
Superhero Mini Books
Published by Running Press, 2012 & 2014
Harry Potter Collectibles
Published by Running Press, 2019
genre fiction | pop culture | ephemera
in the media
street cred
GRATZ COLLEGE / PHILADELPHIA
M.A. JEWISH STUDIES, 2011 - Summa Cum Laude
NEVE YERUSHALAYIM SEMINARY / JERUSALEM
TALMUDIC STUDIES SEMESTER ABROAD, 2008
MARRIAGE MINDED MENTOR / PHILADELPHIA
MATCHMAKER ACADEMY, 2014
YENTANET / NEW YORK
MATCHMAKER TRAINING INSTITUTE, 2015
GOOD SHEPHERD MEDIATION / PHILADELPHIA
BASIC CONFLICT MEDIATION, 2017
THE MARRIAGE MEDIATOR / PHILADELPHIA
RELATIONSHIP MEDIATION, 2018
poetry
Willowdown Books
Lockdown 2.022
‘Renewal’
Humans of the World
‘Bronze’
’A Prayer for Self-Celebration’
‘Alternate Hashkievenu Blessing’
Beyond Queer Words Anthology 3rd Edition
‘Letter to My Husband Who Will Be My Wife’
Cathexis Northwest Press
‘Secrets’
’Harvest’
’Foreground’
Beyond Words Literary Magazine
Issue 23
‘Splendor’