In addition to scholarly work, I also write fiction and poetry. I find this helps me to decompress and relax which, in turn, helps me to better help my patients. I am currently seeking representation by a literary agent in order to pursue traditional publishing. 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.
Completed Works Seeking Representation
Some of Our Monsters Have 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.
Power and Poison
YA Fantasy/Fairytale Retelling
63,000 Words
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When Nema sets out to break the curse she believes the only thing she isn’t prepared for is failure.
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When she does break the curse she realizes she was wrong. The only thing she wasn’t prepared for was success.
Only a few days after waking up from an enchanted sleep in a small town she doesn’t recognize with no memories of her life, eighteen year old Nema learns of the recently deceased and highly unpopular Queen Elina. Elina was despised for trapping her entire kingdom in a magical lockdown and everyone- including Nema- is happy to think Queen Elina is dead. Nema spends a year building a happy life, drinking vanilla coffees and going to the library with her best friend, Cory. But when a curse is broken and Nema’s memories come rushing back she realizes that everyone is wrong. Elina is alive. And even more surprising- she is Elina. It suddenly becomes apparent that what she was hoping would be her happy ending is only the beginning.
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When her best friend's life is in danger, Nema is forced to team up with both the friends who know her as Nema and the hesitant allies who know her only as Elina. If tragedy is to be avoided Nema must convince the doubters that she has changed since the curse and she is sorry for what she did in the past as Elina. Which won’t be easy because she hasn’t and she’s not.
Acosta Et Al.
YA Mystery/Thriller
89,000 Words
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After spending the first years of her life in the hospital battling a mysterious neurological condition, things have finally settled down for Anna Rogers. Her family doesn't move as much, they've got her health sorted out, and things are good. Or they are until she arrives home from her 12th grade science fair to find her mother dead, surrounded by pictures of Anna's early life at the hospital.
This event catapults Anna into her freshman year of college at the university which houses the hospital where she spent the first years of her life. She's determined to find answers there about her mother's death. But behind the façade of seemingly kind faculty, and shining modern corridors she discovers the dark underworld of her university's academia.
She learns that her rare neurological condition was once a coveted ticket to research fame that one of the faculty is still willing to kill for. With the help of a team of friends, and colleagues Anna has to scramble to show the world the truth about her university if she's going to avenge her mother's death and keep her freedom in the process.
Works In Progress
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 “Inimical Helix'' is trouble. After all, she grew up listening to her grandparents talking about Cuba and cursing the name of Castro. 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 Inimical 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 Inimical 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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