Poetry
Rural Legends
An “urban legend” is, essentially, gruesome gossip. Horrific tales, purportedly true, that happened to someone only a few steps removed from you.
“Urban,” however, denotes the metropolitan, the concrete, the bright lights. Nothing like back roads at the witching hour, darkness so thick you can feel the weight of it on your skin.
Rural Legends is a collection that that explores the human craving for the unsettling, the eerie, the uncanny and seeks to illuminate that tension between the desire to feel fear and our instinct to avoid it.
For a sneak-peek, check out “No. 2: Skinned Tom (Golden Shovel Edition),” “No. 2: Skinned Tom (Haibun Edition),” “No. 4: Santa Lucia Mountains,” “No. 5: Huntsville, AL,” “No. 7: Beast of Bladenboro,” “No. 8: Walking Sam,” “No. 10: Elephant Execution,” or “Crow Song.”
Phases
Like the phases of the moon, we traverse periods in our lives that, for better or worse, change us. Through lunar-based sections, this collection explores the phases of the heart and the transformation that comes along with the inevitable joys and heartbreaks of love.
For a sneak-peek, check out “Knoxville Week,” “David,” “Matt,” “Marathon Man,” “The Most Exciting Three Minutes,” or “déjà vu.”
Prose Collections
Nuclear Games and Other Stories
This collection of short stories explores the liminal spaces of relationships in all their complex iterations: romantic partnership, friendships, the familial, and, perhaps most importantly–the relationship one has with themself.
For a sneak-peek, check out “POGO,” “Snowblind,” or “Remember Me,”
Novels
Unlaced
A Lock & Key trilogy
A speculative YA novel told from shifting POV with six voices. The manuscript is complete at 115,000 words and is the first book of a trilogy, though the book is also a self-contained work.
Centuries after a businessman used a mix of ingenuity, money, and magic to restructure the earth back into supercontinent Pangaea, his descendants have become despots, forcing all people to live their lives according to a rigid blueprint. Lacie finds her life upended when on her wedding day her boyfriend is paired with someone else and she is exiled to work at a snowy northern outpost until she finds her husband. While there, Lacie learns that the world is dying and instead of fixing it, the government wants to abandon Earth to colonize the moon. Now, Lacie faces a terrifying choice: continue on the path laid out for her, or take control of her life to save the only home she’s ever known.
One Year Longer
A multi-generational women’s dystopia that is to be my cumulating thesis project for my MFA.
