I work in texture. In symbolism, imagery, and echoes of the literature that raised me. My writing often wanders through grief, resilience, transformation. I set out to make my characters real, to make sure they arrive full of questions and learn precisely how to carve a path through the world.

The stories I write aren't always kind, but they are always human.

I know a scene is working when it makes me feel too much. Sometimes I cry. Sometimes I laugh unexpectedly. Sometimes I just sit there, hand hovering over the keys, because the rhythm is finally right and I'm terrified I'll disrupt the beat of it.

My favorite characters aren’t the chosen ones. They’re the ones who choose. Who fail. Who fall. Who stand and stumble and try again. I’m drawn to characters who reshape themselves even when the world refuses to let them catch their breath, and to stories where the moral lines are as blurry as the horizon in a storm.

And the teams I gravitate toward? Curious. Obsessive in the best way. The kind of people who get excited about symbolic echoes or metaphor density or “what if this choice hurts a little.” That’s where I belong—where passion meets play and no one apologizes for loving the weird things out loud.

That’s the voice I bring. The instinct I trust. The ink I’m made of.

Background—The Practical Bits

Once upon a time, I went to Southeast Missouri State University and attended an array of fascinating and informative classes to earn my Bachelor’s in English Writing, with a minor in philosophy, and a heart focused on literature and story. 

I’ve sailed across the sea of careers with that degree, dropping anchor at islands of theater, education, nonprofit, and medical writing. At times I felt like a stowaway or adrift in the current of questions, adulthood, and unseen possibility, but my heart has always stayed a true compass pointing to what matters across all I’ve done throughout my multi-harbored career.

Through it all, I am always authentic, always curious, and always eager to tell stories that mean something—that mean everything.