PUBLICATIONS

“The Summer Games” — Oregon Humanities

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AUTHOR INTERVIEWS

Mary Akers — Ashland Creek Press

Patrick Hicks — Ashland Creek Press

Charlotte Malerich — Ashland Creek Press

Jean Ryan — Ashland Creek Press

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WORKS IN PROGRESS

Between the Spark and the End (contemporary YA novel)

At seventeen, Lily survives by believing the cosmos turns pain into something good, but when her best friend Marianna overdoses, nothing can make that fate meaningful. With no promised payoff, Lily is forced to confront every lie she’s told herself, every cowardly coping mechanism she’s used to look away—or be swallowed by in grief she can’t justify or outrun.

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Horror Vacui (lyric essay)

A fear of empty space where silence reveals an absence of self, forcing the speaker to borrow meaning from others and erode any sense of intrinsic worth.

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Synesthesia, Equanimity, and Bestowal (prose-poetry suite)

In “Synesthesia” a child mutes her own senses to adapt to her mother’s black-and-white reality. In “Equanimity” a patient living with bi-polar disorder desperately seeks steadiness. In “Bestowal,” a father unmakes himself piece-by-piece, in a kind of self-sacrifice, to carry forward future generations. Together, these prose-poems explore how perception shifts and adaptation forms under conformity, equilibrium, and sacrifice, as lived through a child, a patient with bipolar disorder, and a father shaped by devoted self-giving.