I write speculative fiction because I want to press against the edges of what it means to be human. My stories return again and again to metamorphosis, memory, and ecology—because those are the questions that underlie everything we experience. Who are we when we change? What do we carry, and what do we lose? How do we live inside systems so much larger than ourselves?
For me, horror and beauty are inseparable. The world I know is at once profane and incomprehensibly beautiful, and I want my work to hold both truths in tension. I’m drawn to the possibilities of science and science fiction, the way they open doors to what lies beyond our ordinary perceptions. What is possible? What waits for us just outside the limits of what we know?
My background in nursing threads through my writing in ways both technical and emotional. The sciences of physiology and pharmacology shape my stories at the level of detail, while grief and loss—so present in healthcare—inform the emotional landscapes I return to.
I live in the Ozarks with my partner, an art teacher and retired Corpsman, and spend too much time engineering new enrichment puzzles for our raccoons.
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