stories & poems
Stories rooted in memory.
Shaped by landscape.
Attentive to the quiet beauty of ordinary life.
Ways of Seeing
Looking closely.
Listening carefully.
Finding meaning in what might otherwise go unnoticed.
Introduction
The way we see the world shapes the way we live within it.
My writing grows out of attentive seeing—of people, memory, works of art, and the natural world. Again and again I find myself drawn to moments that might easily be overlooked: changing light across a landscape, the patient work of restoring a painting, an unexpected encounter with another living creature, the memories that continue to accompany us long after we imagine they have faded.
These are not separate interests. They are different expressions of the same search for relationship, meaning, and hope.
If there is a thread running through my work, it is the belief that attentive seeing is itself a creative act—one that invites us into a deeper relationship with one another and with the living world.
Hidden Histories
A Gatherer of
new & forthcoming
Two books.
Two forms.
One continuing exploration
of memory, place, and
the stories we inherit.
a pearl is just an accident
A novel in stories exploring memory, family, art, and the quiet work of restoration. Through lives shaped by hidden histories, it reveals the unexpected ways beauty and meaning emerge over time.
on the lip of night
A poetry collection inhabiting the threshold between darkness and light, where memory, grief, beauty, and hope remain in quiet conversation. These poems find in both the human and natural world a language for what is difficult to name.
