​Fiction & Creative Nonfiction: 

   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 recog-
nition from the Faulkner-Wisdom
Literary Awards, the Bridport Prize, 
the Oak Park Hemingway Short
Fiction Contest, the Sunspot
Solstice Prize, along with a 2026
Pushcart nomination.



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