WRITING

PUBLICATIONS

Short Stories

“Alice in the Pool”

Took the First-Place Prize for Prose in the Vox Arts and Literary Journal 2013 Spring/Summer writing contest.

Literary Criticism

"Sex, Death, and the Never Never Land: Conflicting Fantasies in James Barrie’s Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up."

Published in Transactions, vol. 18, May 2014. Awarded Excellence in Humanities by the Pace University Dyson Society of Fellows.

“Nothing but the Blackest Art: Rhetorical Magic and the Art of Enchantment in Jane Austen."

Published in Transactions, vol. 19, May 2015.

MANUSCRIPTS

THE GHOST MATCHMAKER

Sylvia Sterling does not believe in ghosts. She is just trying to get her start in life, when she finds herself an unlikely matchmaker to the dead.

But Catherine de La Art isn’t like other ghosts; she has led a respectable afterlife, even permitting the city to convert her house on Rigby Lane into a museum. Surely finding a match for her shouldn’t be too difficult? In fact, Sylvia has just the dead poet in mind.

But when the mystery surrounding Catherine's death is revealed, Sylvia must find a way to guide her through the valley between life and death.

LOVESICK

Jasna is a serial killer with only one victim. A graphic designer flunking out of college in upstate New York, she keeps to herself. But her chance encounter with pre-med student Dorian spirals into a twisted fixation. Her uncanny opposite in every way, she can’t help being drawn to him.

Stalking him around campus, her obsession escalates, until one night, she murders Dorian–only to see him in class the next day like nothing happened.

Desperate to discover the secret of his immortality, Jasna insinuates herself into his life. But when their unlikely friendship turns romantic, she begins to suspect Dorian knows more than he’s letting on.

THE BELLEWITE ROMANCE (WIP)

Set in an alternate 1930s America still living in the shadow of failed revolution, Maddie Brown is a Manhattan socialite pressured into an engagement with a controlling English doctor.

But on a scenic drive upstate, she runs away to be a postwoman in a mystical town on the shores of the Hudson River.

Battling old habits and awakening suppressed powers, she tries to solve the disappearance of the woman she replaced.