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As a little girl, I was often scared of the dark. My young mind imagining the worst possible terrors that could crawl their way out of the shadows and haunt me. I awoke on several nights and would sob, my wails seeping through the thin, plaster walls of one of our very first homes, and would not stop until my mother came to comfort me with a flick of the light switch. There were several evenings as I grew older, after church, as my father drove me home, where I would stare

The following is a short story I wrote during the summer of 2025 in an intensive creative writing program. Since then this short story has won a Gold Key for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards as well as the 2026 Overture Awards in Creative Writing Please, enjoy. _____ The day the water in the lake disappeared, the people of Wilhem gathered around its borders, lined with yellow police tape. The adults, mostly mesmerized and confused, pushing their children back in case da

Fisheye: A Compendium of the Inner Thoughts of a Dreamer is my upcoming poetry collection that gives an insight into the mind of a young creative through gothic, whimsical, and eerily dreamy poetry. While I’m still hard at work on this project, I thought showcasing some of my favorite lines from different poems without context would be a fun way not only to stir up some excitement, but to showcase what my writing is like in this medium versus storytelling. So, without furth

Fisheye: A Compendium of the Inner Thoughts of a Dreamer is my upcoming poetry collection set to release August of 2026 that gives a real insight into the mind of a young creative. Not only is Fisheye a rising inspiration for all creative minds, young and old, but it also happens to be a reflection of me as the poet and author and everything that has inspired me. So, to put it simply, it’s odd. Whimsical yet nightmarish, there has been much media I’ve consumed over the ye

As an author, especially one aspiring to publish not only poetry collections but full-fledged novels as well, there are many challenges that come into play when I am writing. Ones that, while I still deal with them, have become easier to manage over time. So, here are just a few of my tips and tricks for slaying these vengeful beasts. Firstly, and perhaps the most common monster of them all, writers block. Every writer has come across writer's block, and sometimes it honest

I’ve been a sucker for fiction for as long as I can remember. Anything from realms of fantasy to history retold always piqued my fancy. And over the course of my writing journey, I’ve discovered many different authors, all of whom have had a play in the way my own writing and storytelling have developed. To begin, the wonderful, gothic, and heavily admired woman who really inspired me to start writing in the fantasy genre: Leigh Bardugo. Mother of the Grishaverse and hero o

As a teenage author, looking through my young lenses at the professional world of publication is. . . well, daunting, to say the least. There are many challenges I'm already facing such as writers block (a real burden), feeling inferior, and the consistent spiral of overthinking that plagues many of my peers, too. But, taking on this challenge of publishing my first book has only filled me with the relentless ambition to succeed. And this, here, is where my journey begins. I