Fiction
I received my MA in Creative Writing from UW-Milwaukee, where I also served as an assistant fiction editor for Cream City Review and was the 2019 recipient of the Sheila Roberts Fiction Award for best graduate student short story.
Hello World
I am currently seeking representation for my debut novel, Hello World, speculative literary fiction about a group of people living within a simulation entirely optimized to their preferences, and what happens when a series of strange glitches begin to reveal the true cost of getting everything you ever wanted.
Escape Velocity
In 2020 I won 2nd place in The Masters Review's New Voices contest with "Escape Velocity," a short story about a woman so desperate to leave her addict brother's orbit that she applies for a one-way trip to Mars. "Escape Velocity" reinterprets the cycles of addiction through mathematical asymptotes and the gravity-yoked orbits of planets around the sun and recalculates the forces that have kept one woman from ever reaching her escape.
Contest judge Tope Folarin had this to say about it: “I love the wide scope of this story, how capacious it is, and also how very intimate. There are many moving parts to this story, but they all work seamlessly together. I loved getting lost in it, and then finding myself on the other side, still whole, but changed.”