About the Author
I write reflective and creative nonfiction and poetry that explores memory, identity, motherhood, trauma, and the quiet moments that stay with us long after they pass. My work lives in the genre of emotional realism, essays, and poems that try to make readers feel seen in the parts of experience that often go unspoken. Before I was a writer, I was a medic. Years working in emergency medical services shaped the way I see almost everything: the fragility of a moment, the weight of grief, the stubborn endurance of people in crisis. That background lives in my writing, not always visibly, but always structurally. It gave me a high tolerance for difficult material and a deep respect for what people survive. Parenting my special needs child has shaped me in much the same way, making me harder and softer at the same time, and teaching me how to write about caregiving without flattening it into either tragedy or triumph. I am currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in English at Southern New Hampshire University, where my studies have centered on literary analysis, creative nonfiction, feminist theory, and contemporary fiction. One piece from my degree work, Token, examines the personal need to feel loved and wanted while reflecting the kind of emotionally grounded, lived-in raw writing I hope to keep producing. My writing has been shaped by Joan Didion's precision, Ocean Vuong's tenderness toward the body and memory, Toni Morrison's refusal to soften hard truths, and Vivian Gornick's unflinching examination of the self in relation to others. Sylvia Plath has always been a strong influence on my poetry, for her emotionally charged writing that explores less-discussed topics, as has Emily Dickinson and her emotionally rich writing with philosophical explorations. My current projects include reflective essays, literary nonfiction, and poetry that move through family dynamics, survival, caregiving, and the complicated ways the past follows us into the present. I am currently seeking publication in literary journals that value emotionally honest, character-driven nonfiction and poetry, and I plan to submit work to Penguin House for my essay collection and to Andrews McMeel Publishing for my poetry. I am most drawn to stories that sit inside the tension between who we were and who we are still becoming. When I am not writing, I am reading, collecting fragments from ordinary life, or photographing the small details that eventually become something, whether for an essay, a poem, or an image on its own.