Essays
Essays is the home for my nonfiction writing.
These pieces grow out of lived experience and sustained 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.
An Authorial Review of Where’d You Go Bernadette
A writer’s review of Where’d You Go, Bernadette, looking at humor, structure, pacing, and the authenticity of its mental health portrayal.
From Memoir to Fiction: an Author’s Journey
A reflection on shifting from memoir to fiction, navigating craft confusion, and deciding whether to claim the identity of an author.
Internal Genres or How the Protagonist Changes
A craft-focused exploration of internal genres and how protagonists change through worldview, status, and moral arcs.
An Authorial Review of Carrie Soto is Back
An under-the-hood, spoiler-filled review of Carrie Soto Is Back that examines how craft, ambition, and gendered expectations shape a protagonist whose value must be disentangled from performance.
Taking the first Step to Writing a Novel
A reflection on starting a novel, overcoming paralysis, and building momentum through small, consistent steps.
So, You Want to Write a Book
Writing a novel wasn’t part of my plans until a moment shattered my assumptions about responsibility, silence, and care. What followed was not just a story, but a reckoning with what it means to carry love—and consequence—at the same time.
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.
