I hold a BA from Eckerd College and an MFA from the Solstice Program at Pine Manor College. It was there I learned that revision is a lifestyle and that writers are expected to “build a platform.” It is a phrase that makes most of us want to organize a national convention solely for the purpose of collectively lying down in traffic. Consider this page my compromise: a sanctuary where I can exist professionally without pretending that I enjoy the sales pitch.
I write across forms—creative nonfiction, literary fiction, screenplays, and the kind of genre experiments that wander into magical realism, psychological interiority, and the absurd. I write in blocks, out of order, and revise compulsively. My influences include William Styron, Theodore Dreiser, and Harlan Ellison: men who stared into the abyss and decided to take notes on the wallpaper.
I’m currently finishing Dancing with the Shadows, a memoir about ECT, memory, and the mind’s strange attempts at self‑preservation—and the work that gave inspiration to this blog’s title. I’m also revising Heart’s Oasis, my creative thesis and novel from grad school about a reverend in crisis—a modern reimagining of Don Quixote with more magical realism, more existential dread, and windmills somehow even more bizarre. And I’m crafting a literary reworking of a cult horror film—not A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, though I personally find its alienation endearing , but something even darker still and stranger than a brunette vampire on a skateboard.
If you’re an agent or editor, consider this my handshake. If you’re a reader, welcome to the labyrinth. If you’re neither, that’s fine—this space exists whether anyone is looking or not. I’m here to write, to think, and to dance with the shadows a little more publicly than before.