Who I AM
The first love of my life was stories. From staying up all night to read Holes for the fifth time to binging the entire series of Lost back when Netflix still mailed DVDs, my favorite feeling has always been getting lost in another world. Stories have healed me, saved me, entertained me, and given me a safe space to learn and grow.
My second love was writing. What started as a whirlwind affair with immediate late nights burning the midnight oil and obsessive daydreams that took over my every waking thought has now, eleven years later, become my longest-term relationship. (Sorry to my wife — you’re six years behind!) Since then, I’ve filled notebooks, hard drives, and countless coffee mugs while trying to put the stories that inhabit every inch of my imagination onto the page.
I’ve written across genres — from speculative and fantasy to historical fiction — but every story I tell is infused with big feelings, bigger stakes, and characters you won’t forget. I weave humor and tenderness into important themes such as justice, power, grief, transformation, found family, and love.
I write the same way I live: with my heart on my sleeve.
When I’m not trying to perfect my manuscript, I’m editing my wife’s books (she’s also an aspiring author), playing pickleball, wandering through local bookstores, trying different cuisines, or baking a new concoction where I (mostly) follow the recipe.
Fun fact: I proposed last year on the wonderful We Can Do Hard Things podcast, and she said yes! We currently live in North Carolina.
I was born and raised in Texas, where I spent five years volunteering, TAing, and attending conferences with a Texas-based writing org. I have received two awards in contests for unpublished novels: Finalist in Historical Fiction by the Writers’ League of Texas and Honorable Mention by A Woman’s Write.
My current work-in-progress is The Senior Citizen’s Guide to Surviving a Serial Killer, a mystery billed as a “beach read with bite.” For fans of Thursday Murder Club and Only Murders in the Building, the story follows seventy-two year old baker, Lilith Hart, whose peaceful existence is turned inside out when a notorious serial killer comes out of retirement just for her.
