​Fiction &
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I write toward moments when ordinary lives turn luminous under pressure—where memory, moral injury, and quiet reckoning shape who we become.

I am a Hawaiian-born, Iowa-bred writer living in the Texas Hill Country. My work has appeared in more than two dozen literary journals and has received recognition from the Faulkner-Wisdom Literary Awards, the Bridport Prize, the Oak Park Hemingway Short Fiction Contest, the Sunspot Solstice Prize, and a Pushcart nomination.



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