realized that she was a writer in the 3rd grade after writing a blue-ribbon story about a boy, a bird, and a dollar bill. Although you'd think it would be smooth sailing with a start like that, Autumn's writing life hasn't always been easy. She was censored from the high school literary magazine and shunned by the college poetry scene. Since then, however, she has published poems with Hinge Online and the Mad Poets Review. One of her poems recently won second place at the Philadelphia Writers' Conference.

She has read her poetry throughout the Philadelphia area at the Haverford Library, House of Our Own bookstore, Old City Coffee, and The Point in Bryn Mawr, as well as other venues in Trenton, NJ, and Pittsburgh, PA. Autumn dabbles in nonfiction and has published articles in Pittsburgh magazine. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2000 with a BA in English Writing. She volunteers as a crisis intervention counselor for a 24-hour sexual assault hotline. To pay the bills, she works as a fundraiser for a nonprofit community development organization in Trenton, NJ.