about me

I am a cancer survivor.   I sometimes feel like my life is one long episode of Larry David's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," or a lovely combination of SNAFUs and blessings-in-disguise.  I am obsessed with good writing, iced tea, shabu shabu, and movies (especially films by Wes Anderson, Ang Lee, and Woody Allen).  I also enjoy spending time with my husband, Ueli Rutishauser, a brilliant Swiss neuroscientist whom I met while working as a research assistant at Caltech. 

I grew up in Pasadena, CA, where I attended Westridge School from 4th through 12th grade.  In what feels like a previous life, I studied ballet and enjoyed performing in the dramatic arts. 

I graduated from the University of Chicago in June 2012, where I majored in English Language and Literature with an honors concentration in Creative Writing.