And now—let the chaos begin!

Welcome to the circus that is my creative mind! My world is made of words of all kinds, and below are just a few examples.

(Click on each picture for the works.)

Poem

...Convincing?

Sometimes you sit on a barstool in a Christmas bar and contemplate life, and come up with answers that aren't answers at all.

Fiction

The Written Woman

Other times you're sitting in a swivel chair at your first post-college job, and memories of crushed green velvet floors mix with a nightmare—giving you one hell of a vivid story for a few pages in your journal.

Essay

How to Tell Your Sister You Love Her: Write Fiction

Way back in the beforetimes, I wrote an essay for a Jane Austen class comparing her life to the one she wrote in Pride & Prejudice—proving once and for all I am still, in fact, that book nerd.