“I was raised in a fundamentalist sect in West Virginia, homeschooled along with my eight younger siblings, and now live with my partner and critters in an off-grid tiny home I built in the mountains of northern California.
I spent my twenties in NYC working in blue-chip art galleries by day and performing in experimental art warehouse shows by night. Out of my art practice, I began filmmaking, which led to an MFA in Screenwriting. But when scripts failed to satisfy my deepest literary yearnings, I wrote my first novel, JACKALOPE, a contemporary folk horror homage to Jane Eyre. I am currently in the query trenches with the manuscript and writing my second novel, BITTERGREEN, a Frankenstein-esque folk horror set in the Florida swamps. When I am drowning in novel or script writing, I come up for air to write short stories.
I have published work in various places, including The Southeast Review, Phile Magazine, Gingerzine, and Black Hare Press. Every week, I trade critiques in my fantastic writing group, whose keen eyeballs and insightful notes spur me to keep crafting age-old stories in fresh ways.”
