I am a neurodivergent (OCD since childhood), award-winning writer of Gothic fiction and creative nonfiction that explores mental health, motherhood, and family life with themes of resilience, hope, and finding beauty in the struggle. My novel, THE BONES OF HOPE, won two Claymore Awards at Killer Nashville (Best Supernatural, 1st Runner Up for Best Unpublished Manuscript), was a 2024 Launch Pad Prose Competition finalist, was just named a 2025 semifinalist in ScreenCraft’s Cinematic Prose Competition, and recently hit #1 on Coverfly’s Red List for top manuscripts. My creative nonfiction and poetry have been included in numerous publications and anthologies, and my dark academia manuscript, YET FROM THOSE FLAMES NO LIGHT, was a 2019 Daphne du Maurier Award finalist for excellence in mystery and suspense.
While receiving my degree in English from the University of Connecticut, I interned at Curbstone Press and mentored the CT Youth Poetry Slam Team. After taking a fiction tutorial through New York University, I attended the Peripatetic Writers Workshops in New York and England. Prepandemic, I enjoyed teaching poetry to kids through The Bushnell's Partner's in Arts Program.
