I am the author of three novels: Lost in the Beehive (2018), Above Us Only Sky (2015), and The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors (2010).
I am currently pursuing my M. A. in studio art with concentrations in ceramic hand-building and black-and-white photography. In 2025, I studied under the talented and inspirational ceramicists Sarah J. Conti and Melissa Weiss at Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft.
As a novelist and visual artist, I am concerned with justice and equality and the inequity imposed on women and all oppressed people–those of color, the homeless, native populations, the LGBTQI community, migrants and children. I don’t believe white men or any man is entitled to have more or better in the United States. My literary and visual art explores a feminine reclamation of identity, safe spaces, notions of home and the environment. My ceramic birds complement the birds and natural themes that pervade my novels and are inspired by the birds migrating across and residing here in Eastern North Carolina.
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