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I write fiction { novels; short stories; flash } and creative non-fiction.
I light signal fires.
New Leaf Literary and Media
“Everything you touch you change and everything you change changes you.”
Octavia E. Butler
announcements and news
2026
Attend my memoir workshop!
MWA Annual Conference : From Brain to Bookshelf
10-11 OCTOBER, Baltimore MD
Capital Love: Live reading at Busboys & Poets, Hyattsville
July 2026
Washington Writers Publishing House - Capital Love Anthology
published May 2026
Panelist, 64th Annual Lex Allen Literary Festival,
April 11th, Hollins University - Virginia,
Featured Reader for Yellow Arrow Anniversary Event [@ AWP Offsite],
Wednesday, March 4th, Baltimore
2025
VONA Summer Workshop: Memoir with Bridgett M. Davis
ANTHOLOGY LAUNCH: Grit & Gravity
May 7th @ 7pm @ Politics & Prose Bookstore, Connecticut Ave. D.C.
May 9th @ 7pm Inner Loop Lit, Shaw’s Tavern, D.C.
May 17th Gaithersburg Book Festival
May 30th, 7pm DC Writers Room
More event info and to order a copy: www.graceandgravitydc.com
2024
Scholarship recipient for Personal Essays with Hannah Grieco
(Thank you) The Writer’s Center DC
3D Space Semester Speculative Fiction Fellow with Naseem Jamnia