I'm a fiction writer, teacher, and student who lives in Salt Lake City, with roots nourished in the San Francisco Bay. I go by Camie for the everyday. I've been going to school by the mountains for the past eight years, where I'm in the process of taking a BA to a PhD at the University of Utah. I study mostly creative writing and literature, with the occasional letterpress and book arts class slipping in the cracks.
I teach composition and creative writing courses, and am also a co-editor of Quarterly West. I'm currently at work on a novel, Illustrating Ruth.
I live in a wisteria-covered duplex on a busy street; I like walking, Victoriana, insects, and mermaids. Italics are my favorite flavor of type. I rely too much on Instagram to take pictures (it's the polaroid edge that undoes me).
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The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous “turn” (for there is no true end to any fairy-tale): this joy, which is one of the things which fairy-stories can produce supremely well, is not essentially 'escapist', nor 'fugitive'. In its fairy-tale—or otherworld—setting, it is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur.
—J.R.R. Tolkein