I think I was born with a pen in my hand. I wrote my first story, about a dog taking a ride on an alien spaceship to the moon, at four years old. Even from a very young age, I've felt a deep need to explain the world around me by exploring what I see, hear, think, and feel through the written word. My goal is to draw my readers into worlds that are as real to them as they are to me, and have them fall in love with the characters they get to know. I also use my writing to mentor adult survivors of childhood abuse and trauma--healing that pain, in some cases decades old, through creative writing and storytelling.
