Author and Psychologist
In addition to scholarly work, I also write fiction and poetry. Scroll down to learn more about my completed works and works in progress! Feel free to contact me if you'd like to know more.
Coming Fall 2026
Many the Monsters
Adult Fantasy Fairytale Retelling
80,000 Words
1st in a planned duology
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30-year-old Tyre is so shocked by his good luck when 31-year-old Calla appears out of thin air that they’re married within three months. She’s the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen, she always smells vaguely of roses, and she glows like the sun itself. She’s a terrible dancer, but that’s a small price to pay for someone who breaks up the absolute monotony of his life as governor of the small, cold town of Thiaghal. She could even be the one to break the monstrous curse placed on him at 11 years old, which would protect him from a mysterious entity known only as “The Inimical” who is collecting curse victims for reasons unknown.
But when Tyre’s 15-year-old cousin Maddie gets involved in a situation she can’t control and is kidnapped to the mysterious Clockwork Atheneum an entire country away, he needs to rely on Calla’s intricate knowledge of her own time at the school to plan a rescue. While they work side by side, all the things about Calla that once seemed so dazzling, begin to take on a more sinister feel. As The Inimical haunts his dreams with strange demands, and Maddie’s life hangs in the balance, Tyre's love for his wife grows but so does the nagging suspicion that she’s just a little too good to be true.
Works In Progress
Some of Our Names
YA Fantasy/Fairytale Retelling
60,000 Words
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There is power in the cursed Forest and 18-year-old Lena wants it. She wants it badly enough to trade her humanity for it. The Alvena who live in the Forest once had the power to protect the Humans from the Monsters but Lena knows that now the Alvena are the stuff of nightmares. They are strange fairy creatures who steal children away to the Forest and guard the Forest's sacred knowledge.
Only after becoming an Alvena does Lena meet Man. Man is something not quite Alvena nor Monster nor Human who might be the key to learning how the Forest and the Alvena came to be cursed. But when Lena’s quest to master the power of the Forest is interrupted by 14-year-old Ari, a human child being hunted by a Monster, Lena must race to unravel the mystery of the Forest and Man before the Monsters can claim another life.
Safe Places
YA Thriller
In Progress
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When 17-year-old Marti, 15-year-old Elena, and 14-year-old Benson are in the middle of treatment, their psychologist disappears. 28-year-old Rhosy Crane has been treating all of them for anxiety disorders for months. She’s kind, smart, calm, and, unbeknownst to them, the last living student of Dr. Matthew Olafsoff, the world’s leading expert on fear.
Benson is convinced that Rhosy would never have abandoned them like this and convinces Elena and Marti to help him figure out what’s happened to Rhosy.
Meanwhile, Elena has known for a while that The Helix' is trouble. But after the initial fear and scramble of a private drug company staging a government coup, everything just seemed so normal. At least it did until she connects Dr. Olafsoff to The Helix and starts to wonder if it has something to do with Rhosy’s disappearance.
And Marti has a car and a long history with rule-breaking. They decide that if The Helix has Rhosy, then they can figure out where and they, along with Elena and Benson, can stage a rescue.
Trickster gods
Adult Fantasy
In Progress
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Well this is awkward.
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In the last, fading light of a long, hot summer, Drisana outsmarts the trickster demi-god Bromar entirely by accident and the shocked look on his face makes her laugh. A magical gift given to Drisana at birth states that the first person to make Drisana The Sun Queen laugh will be given eternal life to live with her. The curse on Bromar states that if he’s ever outsmarted he’ll die.
Now what?
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