I didn't plan on being a storyteller. I was a combat rescue medic, then a forensic digital investigator, and then somehow ended up writing a novel about children fleeing a surveillance state.
I was born in Hamburg. I followed someone I loved to America, filled out the forms, raised my hand, and meant every word of the oath. I live in Henderson, Nevada — too much coffee, too many opinions.
My debut novel, The Weight of Petals, written under the name Cade Meridian, started as speculative fiction. By the time I finished writing it, it wasn't speculative anymore. I also write music for my books, because apparently that's who I am now.
I write to make things impossible to look away from. Not because I think I can fix everything. Because my grandmother lived through a time when people looked away and told themselves it wasn't their problem — and she taught me that silence has consequences.
