Current Projects
Wild Youth
In the wilderness, troubled teens must learn to behave. At least, that’s what the West Sun program promised the parents of Francesca, Tara, Daisy, Orion, and Anita in 1994. But who defines obedience? WILD YOUTH follows five teenagers as negligence turns fatal, and they must work together to escape the abuses of wilderness therapy in the treacherous Uinta Mountains of Utah. For decades the "Maniacal Five" were silent, silenced by the wilderness that changed them; now they’ve come together to tell their side of the story—full of traumatic “therapeutic” challenges, unexpected friendships, and murder. Mirroring the industry itself, the survivors’ accounts are discredited and vilified through the research-oriented footnotes supplemented by a TTI representative. Between the diverging voices of survivors and the so-called mental health professionals of the TTI, who can the reader trust?
Violent Violet
In a women’s college teeming with pagan disciples, classical scholars, and women loving women, Cleo is notorious and Morgana is unextraordinary—save the sapphic gaze at her shoulder, Sappho Herself. For years the First Lesbian has lurked from afar, watching Morgana rewrite masculine mythos into lesbian lore, but on the night Cleo appears before Morgana, She, the Poetess, is reborn in the poet. For the first time in her life, Morgana feels worthy and prolific; she thinks Cleo’s love and Sappho’s attention an honor. At least, at first. Inspired by Renée Vivien and Natalie Barney’s relationship, VIOLENT VIOLET perverts the boundaries of mortality and morality, a lesbian epic full of deities, secret societies, and love. Or is it limerence? Amidst a campus of seances and protests, Morgana pens immortal poems and Cleo hosts salacious soirees. For the sake of her darling, Cleo swaps her bedroom exploits for courtly traditions, searching for satisfaction in Morgana’s darkness. Meanwhile, under the watchful gaze of Sappho, Morgana must submit to desire and addiction in her affair with Cleo. But just how much will this poet sacrifice to become a Poetess? Set in dark academia and anarchist unrest, this novel asks questions of legacy and violence, where history meets theory and queer villainy meets divinity. As Sappho once said: “Someone, I believe, will remember us in the future.” The danger is, then: what will they forget?
Kingdomless
A fantasy series inspired by Norse mythology, the resilience of foster kids, and revolutionary praxis.
