I'm a writer currently living in Cambridge, Massachusetts and proud to hail from St. Louis Park, Minnesota. I enjoy many kinds of writing and believe that the skills involved in each genre are complementary. In the past couple of years, I've written stories for children's literature textbooks with SABIS®, sports features for the Metro West Daily News in Framingham (MA), short fiction (new piece on flashquake.org), and poetry (just for fun). I've also interviewed community leaders for The New Prosperity Initiative, freelanced English-Spanish translations, and volunteered with Grub Street and the City of Boston's Memoir Project teaching memoir writing to senior citizens.

This fall, I'll enter the University of Massachusetts-Boston as a candidate for an MFA in fiction writing.

My most recent project is Wonder/Wander: 522 Days in Latin America. Wonder/Wander is a literary scrapbook combining poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction prose to tell the stories of the people and places I knew while living and working as a 23-year-old American in communities off the tourist trail from Nicaragua to Argentina. Read more under the Wonder/Wander tab above, or see a preview/buy the book by clicking here.

Contact me: aajamde[at]yahoo[dot]com