Writer. Explorer. Student of life.

I believe stories are powerful.  With the flick of a page, we enter a world with characters that imprint on our hearts, challenge and inspire us, and when we’re lucky, make us laugh. Those are the stories I love to read…and write.

Photo: Anna Gorin Photography

Featured Work

Summer in Snow Peak

Contemporary YA Enemies-to-lovers

When her father dies, a fiery city girl is forced to spend the summer before college in a claustrophobic town with an aunt she barely knows and a smirking local who threatens all of her assumptions, and her carefully planned future.

Snap judgments, Quirky locals, Small town secrets, Faces of grief

“Compulsively readable. I could not put it down.”
Jan M. Flynn, author of Griffin Speaker

“Your characters are fabulous…[the gift shop owner] could have walked right off the page.”
Traditionally published Kidlit author

“Kept me up all night wanting to see what happened!”
SCBWI regional critique group coordinator

Beyond Wortser Street | April 2026

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