The Writing
Literary Fiction
Literary fiction is where I feel most at liberty as a writer. In a novel, I can follow the intricate course of a thought—or an interpretation of one—across pages, inhabit a character’s life more fully, and discover how one small exchange alters everything that follows. I can take slow-time and draw close to a moment or chapter of a life, and savor all the details—wherein a glance, an object held in the hand, or the nearness of another person may carry more than either character can say.
My fables, though shorter in length, are lyrical and reflective, and each moves to the rhythm of an underlying heartbeat, carrying me toward questions of self-awareness, transformation, and what it means to find home.
Whatever the length or setting, I am drawn to the lives people carry beneath their visible ones: the histories they inherit, the meanings they create together, and the ways their understanding of themselves and one another can shift. My characters rarely arrive with their stories fully explained. I listen, follow where they lead, and try to give each story the room—and the patience—it needs to become itself.
Selected Work
On Submission
Novel
An expansive, character-driven novel examining identity, intimacy, alienation, accumulated experience, the stewardship of perception, and the collective creation of social reality. Set in 1989 Chicago.
Manuscript complete · 138,000 words
In Process
Fables
A series of lyrical fables with complex themes touching on self-awareness, transformation, spiritual journeys, and the simple beauties inherent in everyday living. Each story stands on its own, weaving its way through a distinct cast of characters and a world quietly alive with wonder.
In Process
Historical Novel
In a 1930s Vermont village, the curious daughter of the local poormaster grows up in a household whose door is open to travelers, neighbors, and those with nowhere else to go. Her story is interwoven with that of a present-day sociology professor, well loved by his students yet uneasy with intimacy. Across generations, a quieter pattern comes into view: the shame people inherit, the shame imposed upon them, and the burdens they carry without knowing quite where they began.
Published
Novel
The Locket
Abbey Taft’s days are filled with the demands of her career, her young daughter, and her mother’s advancing Alzheimer’s. Then a haunting experience unsettles the life she has so carefully managed. As past and present begin to collide, Abbey must look again at her family’s fractured history, her sense of self, and the possibilities she had nearly forgotten.
Self-published in 2014
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