“If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.”

Rachel Carson

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Since 2010 I've been fortunate to teach all over the world, including the University of London, the Williams College-Mystic Seaport Ocean and Coastal Studies Program, aboard SSV Corwith Cramer in the Caribbean and the North Atlantic, with Inspiring Girls Expeditions, and, more informally, leading reading groups here in Seattle to bring ocean literature to general readers.  

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Sample Syllabi:

Marine Biology, Salish Sea Focus (2025)

Global Ocean Literature (2023)

One Ocean, Many Voices: Literature of the Sea (2020)

Environmental Literature: Frankenstein at 200 (2018)

Victorian (By) Nature (2017)​

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Adjacent to teaching, I create multi-scale public educational exhibits for community-based marine organizations, including WWU's SEA Discovery Center (Plankton, Jellies, and more) and Highline College's MaST Center (Sixgill Sharks, co-comissioned by City of Des Moines).

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