I am currently working on, or seeking representation for a number of projects:

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1. MEMOIR: The story begins in a New York suburb when my parents sell their Buick and buy a Volkswagen van. Soon, in 1974,  we are moving across the country to California, picking up stoned hitchhikers along the way. In California, my parents take me to parties where adults swim naked and kids are warned not to eat the brownies. Soon my parents separate and my father becomes more and more off kilter, standing in the middle of the street proclaiming to be Jesus, and coming over to our house, threatening to kill us all. My mother buys a gun, and I sleep with a knife under my pillow. The story continues to later adulthood when I struggle with depression and wrestle with what it means to be a survivor. 

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2. TRANSLATION: A prayerful translation of the Book of Isaiah that speaks to our current political situation. This work is currently represented by Lisa Adams at the Garamond Agency. 

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3. YOUNG ADULT: Coleman, who happens to be black, and Steven, who happens to be white, used to be best friends. They watched high school baseball together and played video games. But suddenly Coleman starts ghosting him and responding to all his questions with grunts. He no longer laughs, and has gone from being  a straight A student to not caring about school. Steven, who is obsessed with zombies, wonders if maybe, just maybe, his friend has become one. Meanwhile, Steven's dealing with Karla, who's he's known forever and who's tougher than he is, but who he's starting to develop feelings for. And he's struggling to figure out how to deal with a lie he told his mom that just keeps getting worse. 

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4. SHORT STORIES: A collection of short stories that takes place in upstate New York and includes: a woman with an addict boyfriend who confides to an elderly neighbor who she later realizes has dementia, an architect struggling to imagine a home for others while his own marriage is crumbling, a drunk boy at a roller derby who falls for a girl only to be mocked by her friends, a bunch of teenagers at a quarry wrestling with their own ghosts and the myth of a ghost who haunts the landscape, a woman who takes an art class and finds a version of herself in a younger participant who she tries to save, an aging woman who goes with her husband to the VFW and to her surprise develops feelings for another woman, a man in recovery who, while selling used junk at a flea market, encounters a woman he slept with while in a blackout. 

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5 POETRY: A collection of poems both heart wrenching and comical from the point of view of a fictional character, Ezekiel, who is well intentioned, but struggling to find sanity in the modern day United States. 

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