While studying German and Russian Language and Literature in college, I fell particularly in love with fairy tales and children’s stories, both written and in film. A course called “Kinder- und Jugendliteratur” at Ludwig-Maximillian Universität in Munich solidified that love and I spent the next year writing my German honor’s thesis on heroism in Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story. This passion became a writing practice, and in college and just after graduating in 2019, translating my anxieties and emotions into children’s stories became a powerful tool for maintaining my mental health.

I moved to Minneapolis, MN, after college, and one of the first things I did there was sign up for writing classes through Minneapolis Community Education. Over the course of the last five years I have found a community of writers, founded a long-form writing group, led a writing workshop and developed a strong daily writing practice. I have found that creativity begets creativity and writing begets writing, and I’ve now written two novels with a third in progress. In my books and my shorter writings I have dabbled in everything from high fantasy to crossover Sci-Fi, from magic infused Westerns to mundane people doing mundane things – and still a few children’s stories, too. I create characters I love (or hate), build worlds around them, and let stories unfold that bring me joy to write.

I now live just outside Minneapolis, and in addition to writing I like to garden and sing songs about my cats, Bartholomew and Smidgen.