About

I was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro and moved to Destin, Florida, as a kid. I have also lived in New Haven, Miami, Philadelphia, Rio de Janeiro (again), London, Luxembourg, Destin (again), New York, and Austin.

I have been to 52 countries. My father was a Holocaust refugee. I majored in literature at Yale but then worked as a business executive for 20 years, a decision of tremendous practicality but questionable wisdom. I am a fitness nut who stops to smell the hedonistic flowers; I have 1,800 unique beers logged on Untappd and 900 unique wines logged on Vivino.

Many of my stories draw on Brazilian settings, family history, and personal anecdotes, but they are ultimately about larger questions: class, belonging, love, foreignness, luck, meaning, and the moral compromises ordinary people make.

My fiction has been published or is forthcoming in One Story, Expat Press, The Berlin Literary Review, and elsewhere. My novella Interlagos received Honorable Mention from Glimmer Train. My ten-minute play The Boat was a Second Rounder in the 2026 Austin Film Festival Script Competition. I was part of the 2026 Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon and will be a 2027 resident at the Vermont Studio Center.

I’m based in Austin, Texas. When I'm not writing, I'm usually reading, traveling, or finding the next beer or wine for my list.