THE RED DIRT ROAD
A Novel - Upcoming

The Red Dirt Road takes place in the 80’s & 90’s, when LGBTQ rights and same-sex marriage were not yet realities and when the fear of AIDS shaped the way people lived and navigated intimacy. 

When she’s seven months pregnant with her second child, Rebecca’s husband informs her that throughout their marriage he has been having anonymous sex with men. Rebecca hides the truth about her marriage, just as, by day, she hides the mattress that her husband now sleeps on in the middle of the living room floor. Rebecca’s husband’s betrayal clamps down like metal on the inside of her life; but her husband has emerged from the darkness of a long-held lie. The end of the marriage is inevitable. Rebecca finds herself looking to the past to understand her present and, ultimately, to figure out what to do about her future. 

Encouraged by her friend, Alix, Rebecca orchestrates a reunion with childhood friends from a life that feels more distant now than ever, at the all-girls camp they’d attended as pre-adolescents. Nothing is as simple as it had felt in the idyllic Maine woods so many years before. And maybe nothing ever was. 

The Red Dirt Road paints a vivid picture of sexuality and identity, lives falling apart and the journey toward making them whole again.

TOURING THE NILE
A Novel - Upcoming

Rosalie, Nicholas, and their six-year-old daughter, Lee, lead a quiet, secluded life in the mountains of New Hampshire. For Rosalie it’s a perfect existence, isolated from the modern world, until a tiny fracture in her psyche suddenly begins to splinter beyond her control. The solitude she used to revel in when Nicholas and Lee left for the day now feels overwhelming in its stillness, and she longs for connection to something larger than herself.

When a house is built on the other side of the woods and she meets her new neighbor Lydia at the pond between their homes, Rosalie senses a chance to reconnect. The encounters at the water’s edge at first begin to repair the fracture in Rosalie’s psyche but then take a darker turn. What is real? What is imagined? When readers finish Touring the Nile, they will be compelled to trace the trajectory. 

Touring the Nile is part literary fiction, part psychological thriller. When the stresses of society bear down, and isolation ensues, who among us is immune from the possibility of unraveling? 

THE LAKES HAVE BEEN COMING DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAINS FOR A LONG TIME
Poetry - Upcoming

The Lakes Have Been Coming Down from The Mountains for A Long Time creates a new language around themes most often held at bay. Deeply rooted in nature and consciousness, these poems explore grief and loss, the bonds of children, parents and lovers, and provides both a visceral and spiritual view of human experience. With visionary urgency, the poems focus on both intimacy and wholeness, isolation and brokenness. By revealing and then transforming the unspeakable, The Lakes Have Been Coming Down from the Mountains for a Long Time creates a visual and lyrical pathway from fear into courage.