Growing up, I read all sorts of books that broke me open and put me back together in different ways. Alone in my room, third grade or so, and listening to the radio on the jam box, I recorded music to the cassette tapes to play back while reading some fantastical story or another. I remember listening to “In the Air Tonight” by Phil Collins while reading The Hobbit, and the air drums solo hit during the chase of the Hobbits by the Nazgûl out of the Shire… Somewhere and somehow along the way, I realized I didn’t just want to read these stories — I wanted to create them.

I write a bit of everything – poetry, literary fiction, essays, and speculative worlds. My focus is always the same: tell the truth emotionally, even if the facts are fiction. I’m drawn to contradictions, to characters trying to become something else, to the places where growing hurts. My work blends literary sensibilities with surreal touches, psychological realism, and a lot of emotional weight. Which is a fancy way of saying, I write heavy.

Currently, I live in the United States and am finishing my bachelor’s degree. Once complete, I’ll be continuing on to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University.