I write Young Adult Fantasy, and mydebut sleeping beauty retelling came out in Summer 2026! Check out the news and keep up with me on Substack.
I am a former founding member of Pub[lishing] Crawl, a blog for young and new writers. I also illustrate the webcomic Pickles and Pitch. You can check out my other art here on Instagram.
Fun Facts
- In my day job I work in Human Resources. My job has been such a blessing in exposing me to many different people, and giving me the opportunity to show up as their advocate. Plus it’s often hilarious and shocking — I can swap employee horror stories with the best of them!
- I was born in 1989 and raised on a small farm in Washington State, running wild in the woods, squelching through ponds, and playing with an eclectic mix of farm animals. When I was 16 my family relocated to the suburbs Chicago, and a year later we moved to Huntsville, AL, which I’m now proud to call my home.
- I wrote my first book at 15, and have written ten books so far, although this number is a little iffy because it includes rewriting a trilogy into a single book.
- On the weekends I love hiking in the local national parks.
- I’m on the autism spectrum, my Meyers-Briggs type indicator is INTJ, and my Enneagram is a 4.
- I have ADHD and depression, both of which I successfully treat with medication.
- I’m an introvert, but not shy. I love public speaking!
- I love researching magic but I’m not sure I believe in it. While I love witches and witchiness, I do not identify as a witch. Although I’ve been learning to read Tarot cards since 2013, I don’t do any magic spells or practices!
- At 6’2 and 3/8 I’m considered really tall!
- I’m in a platonic life partnership with my friend Steve. Millenials buddying up to make families!
Philosophy on AI
While scifi stories about AIs are my absolute favorite, I don’t consider Large Language Models (LLMs) to be capable of true self-awareness. Today’s LLMs were mostly unethically or illegally trained on unlicensed intellectual property, which is wrong and disappointing. I do not trust today’s AI companies to act with integrity or human-first principles, and I hope humanity can quickly create ethical guidelines, standards, and policies about AI usage in the future.
As a human in a workforce that uses LLMs, I have personally found that AI is an amplifier. If you’re good at something, it can help you be better. If you’r bad at something, it will probably enable you to be worse in ways that may not be apparent to you at first.
I do believe ethical LLMs (if there can ever be such a thing) have a place in the workforce. There is certain drudgery work that LLMs can truly help with… Although as individuals I believe we need to be careful about considering when we personally NEED to do drudge work to build our base knowledge of a task or process.
As far as LLMs in creative fields, I believe there is a place for “assistive” AI instead of “generative” AI, but again, this topic is complicated because the LLMs were created unethically, and companies that own the LLMs continue to directly profit from that stolen work.
I’ve played around with AI before I understood all the ethical implications, and found that while it could mimic some of my brainstorming efforts in a fraction of the time, it couldn’t ultimately solve any of my plot problems. AI’s solutions are fundamentally mediocre, and I want more for myself, my work, and my readers.
All of my writing is 100% written by me. While I have mistakenly commissioned art whose usage of AI I did not understand or recognize, I have committed to more thoroughly vetting future commissioend artists, and accepting no generative AI usage in the future.
Woman’s World / Nameless
My first book was posted to FictionPress in 2005 under the title Woman’s World, and gained a moderate following. At 19 I signed with my first literary agent and tried to sell it, but the story got mired in rewrites and a failed attempt at a genre change. During that process the title was updated to Nameless, which I still think is the perfect fit. As I was growing up and changing, the story was changing, too.
Now that I’m embarking on the journey of self-publishing, you can expect Nameless to be available by 2025! Thank you for your patience with me as I’ve grown up and learned to tell this story in the way it deserves to be told. I can’t wait to share it with you.