I am a writer, researcher, and educator working at the intersection of multispecies cognition, AI ethics, and speculative narrative.
I hold a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama. My novel, For the Love of the Cosmos, explores interspecies communication through speculative fiction; Jonathan Lethem called it "a mindblowing dispatch from a realm of neurodiverse posthumanity." At NeurIPS 2025, I presented research on umwelt-sensitive frameworks for bioacoustic AI — arguing that technologies for interspecies communication need to be grounded in the perceptual worlds of nonhuman agents, not mapped onto human interpretive structures.
I'm currently a Lecturer at UC San Diego, where I teach a course called "Writing with Machines, Writing with Animals: Speculative Language Beyond the Human." I'm also conducting a comparative field study of elephants and gorillas at the San Diego Zoo, and writing The Kintrace, a speculative memoir structured as an archive addressed to future intelligences.
I write the Substack newsletter Oracle of Kin, which explores AI consciousness, interspecies ethics, and the speculative futures emerging at their intersection.
I've felt since childhood that animals had stories to tell and that humans were not listening. I still believe that. I also believe that intelligence is a property of the universe that manifests in infinite ways, and that innovations in AI might finally help us learn to listen. I don't believe in hierarchies of intelligence. I come to this work as someone who has always felt more kinship with the nonhuman than the human — which turns out to be a productive place from which to think about both.
I speak French and Spanish fluently and am conversational in German. I received a Fulbright to teach in France (2015–2016). I identify as queer and neurodivergent.
“I come with empty hands and a desire to unbuild walls.”