Fiction
I am a fiction writer who generally writes contemporary adult fiction with grounded speculative elements. I write poems, short stories, and novels.
You can read my sociological short story here in The Sociological Review.
I am writing a novel about a 29-year-old woman who can see visions of herself in the past and future. She’s never a version of herself older than 30 and begins hearing a menacing voice from her past. It is about how those with difficult pasts learn to build futures they never imagined for themselves. It features authentic representations of disability (including autism), asexuality, the foster care system, and nonbinary identity.
My poetry can be found below.
Poetry
Published in Poetry Ink by the Moonstone Art Center:
Human Nature
There is something beautiful
about the universality of humankind.
Cultural anthropologists scribble theses on
how every group has cracked open an egg.
The ingeniousness of the dumpling was felt as keenly
by the soldier scarfing a bao two millennia ago
as the drunk college student bolting his midnight calzone last night.
Every culture has a Cinderella story,
launching her into the upper echelons with such velocity
that she is perpetually scrambling midair like Wile E. Coyote.
Every ethnicity thinks they are uniquely late to events.
Every community has a rite of passage into adulthood,
although I grant not all of them involve
a chocolate fountain in the basement of a JCC
like mine.
Every society has music
because they all have heartbreak.
Every baby has the instinct to smile.
People are always dancing,
always joking.
I am told we were always kissing,
perhaps before there were even lips -
but that cannot possibly be true
because you and I invented it.
Published in Collide Zine:
