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About Me

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I want to say it’s okay to feel broken, to be angry, to be hurt, to feel. If someone reads my work and feels validated in themselves or their thoughts, my mission will have been accomplished. I want people to feel that they can be the hero or heroine of their own story no matter their background, their mental or physical strength, or whom they love or don’t love. I want to be a voice for those who feel like they have yet to see themselves on the pages of their favorite books. 

My Mission

For good or bad for me writing is meant to elicit emotion. I want to feel. I want to feel for my characters. I want to detest my antagonist, fight for my protagonist and I hate myself for the all the pain I create. I want to create characters that make a connection with my readers. As a reader, I love when I fall in love with a character or hate a character with everything in my being. When this happens, I fall in love with the author, because they have created a character that is real or challenges something in me. When I write, I write with all of the above in mind.

 

In the end, I want everything I create to have a purpose. I want to elicit and validate the emotions in my readers. I want to start a dialog about issues that are often pushed into the shadows because it makes us uncomfortable. I want to create characters that are real and diverse as the many facets of the human condition.

My Motivation

I'm an aspiring (or as someone once corrected me pre-published) Young Adult author from Nashville, TN and for the last eight years have called Atlanta, GA home I love writing science fiction, fantasy and contemporary stories involving LGBT characters of color. My goal is always to explore the possibilities of human nature. I often find my writing involving the topics of death, suicide, and depression, because I believe it is important to show that someone can be ‘broken’ and still save the world.

 

When I was in my fourth year of a Chemistry Ph.D. program when I realized that a bad day of writing was better than a good day in the lab—and good days were disappearing. I then had to do a lot of soul-searching before making the difficult decision to change my path from chemistry to writing. 

While my nerdy little heart still has a large space reserved for scientific endeavors, I'm currently working on making my publishing dreams a reality.

My Origin

Favorite Shows

  • Doctor Who

  • Supernatural

  • The Legend of Korra

  • Harley Quinn

  • Avatar: The Last Airbender

Favorite Movies

  • Jurassic Park

  • Les Misérables

  • Priest

  • Die Hard

  • Fifth Element

  • Moana

  • A League of Their Own

  • Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Favorite Series

  • Six of Crows

  • Illuminae

  • Hunger Games

  • Harry Potter

  • Hunter

  • I Am Number Four

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“Find out who you are & do it on purpose.”

-Dolly Parton

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