Hi, I’m Ginger.

I’m a double Pisces, Sag rising. A 6/2 Projector. An INFJ some years and an ENFJ other years. A Buddhist animist, or maybe an animist Buddhist. A class-jumping, tree-hugging, cis-gendered, straight facing, lefty feminist. Mom. Partner. Neuroemergent. A Gen X skeptic who applies these lenses to my life even as I question their value. Except for the feminism. No questions there.

I’ve dedicated my life to narrative. Humans are meaning-making creatures, and reality is defined and understood through story. We know that we need more stories, better stories. The world is changed when we stand up and say, “Listen. This is what my life has meant.” So I help people do that as best I can. And I try to do it too.

I’ve published short fiction, reviews, and personal essays in The Georgia Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Jabberwock Review and elsewhere. I’ve been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and I’ve been shortlisted in The Best American Nonrequired Reading series. My first novel, The Nature of Remains, won the AWP Prize for the Novel, was chosen as a 2021 Books All Georgians Should Read, and won the 2021 Georgia Author of the Year Award.

I have an MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington Writing Seminars, and I’ve taught writing in face to face, hybrid, and wholly virtual settings with Georgia Military College and Southern New Hampshire University.

I offer classes to the community through places like The Porch and in my home. These classes give me the chance to merge my education and years of craft study with my spirituality and my love of play.

In addition to teaching, I offer beta reading and sacred witnessing. Sacred witnessing encompasses coaching and developmental editing, and it also goes beyond what I feel those terms imply. This work is intense and one on one. Of all the work I do, sacred witnessing is what I like best. This isn’t work I sought, but work that found me through request, and my life has been positively changed as a result. Fourteen-year-old me adores how present day me spends her days.

Occasionally, I work in a traditional freelance capacity when the job, ask, or need aligns with my interests and values. I’ve written obituaries, created a podcast and marketing materials for a bioengineering firm, and more.