I started writing music on the piano while an undergraduate at Harvard University and picked up the guitar shortly after graduating in 1991. I played out in Chicago during my mid-twenties-to-mid-thirties.

A major illness sidelined me until 2012, when I self-released my first album, “A Pink Motel By The Seashore.” I played locally behind the album. It received airplay on WXRT.

In 2025 I self-released my second, double album, “No One Wants You (You’ve Slept With Too Many Men).” It is by turns joyful, dark, funny and defiant. I spent twelve years working on an album about what it is like to have been chronically sexually abused as a girl. I wrote about internalized shame, rage, disassociation, and about feeling by turns objectified and haunted. Ultimately, however, I ended up writing a number of earnest love songs too. I came to the conclusion that my love and sex life hadn’t turned out that differently from a lot of other women’s. There were jerks. But there were good ones, too, who helped me heal. Let’s just say that this album helped me come down off the cross.

I’m proud that the album, “No One Wants You (You’ve Slept With Too Many Men)” reached #10 on the MMD Top Streams Chart (college and independent radio) on April 29, 2025, and that the music video for the title song has garnered almost 200,000 views on YouTube.

Here are the lyrics to the most recent song I’ve written:

Behold

Hyena springs from your heart/His hot ingot teeth across my thighs dart

I no longer yearn for twisted devotion/Sun surfaces your lips in motion

Stains wash out your soul is a cloth/That has withstood many cycles of loss

Tongue sifts through ruins unscathed/Origin kaleidoscope imagination raised

Feet liberated from constant dance/Unblinking eyes breaking the trance

Stains wash out your soul is a cloth/That has withstood many cycles of loss

Skein of geese life unfurls/Mollusk mind releases its pearl

Mad to wander through ribbons of dreams/A single tear bathes me

Stains wash out your soul is a cloth/That has withstood many cycles of loss

The song I am currently writing is about a potentially terrifying love.

My touring band includes guitarist Fareed Haque (Blue Note Records), drummer Greg Fundis (56 Hope Road), C Mikhail, who also performs in several Middle-Eastern groups and backup singer Regina Doss Rhymes who grew up singing in Chicago’s South Side churches.