Essays
Essays is the home for my nonfiction writing.
These pieces grow out of experience and attention to the forces that shape private lives: family, care, responsibility, identity, power, and belief. Some essays stay close to the personal. Others step back to examine patterns, systems, or tensions that resist easy resolution.
What connects them is not argument or conclusion, but a commitment to looking carefully and allowing complexity to remain intact.
Going Dark: Bringing The Death Ledger to Life
Two months. A genre I’d never written. A submission deadline for a screen adaptation opportunity. This is how The Death Ledger came to be — and why it needed a different name on the cover.
Writing Against the Algorithm: AI, Narrative Bias, and Why It Matters
AI was trained not just on published literature but on the internet broadly—a place where stories get amplified by volume, not validated by truth. We need stories that challenge those narratives force us to scrutinize our biases.
Why “What Do You Do?” Isn’t Simple
A story and reflection on identity, social expectations, and the question, “What do you do?”
Introducing The Boundary Reset: Choosing Limits in an Unrelenting Moment
A reflection on boundaries, burnout, and care—exploring how thoughtful limits can help us remain engaged without losing our humanity in these trying times .
Restarting After a Break When Momentum Is Gone
After a long break, restarting creative work can feel heavier than staying still. This essay explores gentle, realistic ways to overcome inertia and begin again without shame.
Holiday Gift Guide for Readers and Writers in Your Life
A personal holiday gift guide for readers and writers, featuring books and tools I genuinely love, with no affiliate links and no sales agenda—just thoughtful recommendations for curious minds.
Quiet pieces shaped by lived experience. Moments of pause, noticing, and meaning.
Writing from inside the work—endurance, doubt, revision, and the long middle where stories resist and slowly take shape.
