I am what I like to call a student of the cosmos and life with an enduring love for folklore, poetry, song, & the Gaelic. I am a long-time writer & collector of obscure words, and a full-time student at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig studying Scottish Gaelic Language and Culture. Additionally, I have studied poetry both outwith and within Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Scotland’s Gaelic College, and in 2024 I published my first full-length collection of poetry, Òran Saoraidh. I can often be found studying Gaelic and energetic phenomena, journeying through the bonnie Celtic lands, and passionately tracing the transmission of mythology and traditional songs through time and space long into the deep, quiet night.

While I was born in the United States, I am a granddaughter of the diaspora from the bonnie Gaelic lands and altogether just short of half Irish by blood. Following the call of both heart and soul, I have been studying Scottish Gaelic at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI for five years (and counting!), and have also been privileged to travel to Connemara, Ireland to participate in an Irish Language Immersion at the University of Galway (with more immersions to come!). My first trip to Scotland was to spend many a day in the Gaelic archives at large libraries to read original copies of heritage pieces like the Carmina Gadelica; the Gaelic was kindly read to me by my dear friend’s late grandfather who I now lovingly call Granddad. I am grateful to have travelled to both Ireland and Scotland, and to have also lived in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland for a year. Those wind-swept isles are like nothing else, and where the Isle of Lewis, Eilean Fraoich/the Isle of Heather, grew to become the home of my heart.

The original goal in my studies was to attain some sort of fluency in Scottish Gaelic in order to sing in it, but the language itself has opened me up to both a new world and an invaluable sense of belonging within tradition, song, folklore, and ancestral wisdom. The Gaelic has changed my life irrevocably, and has brought with it the gifts of healing, connection, and ineffably rich meaning. Now, I feel certain that my journey with the Gaelic will be lifelong, that this calling will continue to grow and deepen like a devoted kinship… with many a foray into archives to come. I look forward to sharing this kinship and these forays with you.