A Vodka in Holič
A travel memory from the original Venture. Something you should know about me: I’m pretty unlucky. This is one of the reasons I get travel anxiety, because whenever I step out of my cozy little sphere of comfort, things inevitably go wrong — like the time I ended up in Rome without a place to…
A Character History
Being a brief history of your author and the circumstances which led her to take up the pen…
Diagnosing the Body
The first time I end up in the mental ward, I swear it’ll be the only time… a short memoir.
A Story is a Moment of Change
One of the first exercises that we were assigned during my writing studies at UNC Asheville was the “circular story”. In a page or so, we were to write a complete narrative. The caveat, of course, was that the story had to begin and end “in the same place”…
The Liturgy of the Word
A flash memoir on loss and religion, this piece was originally published in the print edition of the 2012 edition of Headwaters, UNCA’s creative arts magazine.
All the Pretty Little Lies
The story I tell goes something like this… A short memoir about memory and mental health, awarded Editors’ Choice in CRAFT’s CNF Prize, 2022.
Prose Poetry & Flash Pieces
My collected shorter works, from flash memoirs to prose poetry, published across the web.