ABOUT

Beyond the Page

I turn buried histories into stories you read and places you actually stand.

My voice? Think an old letter tucked inside a library book: warm, a little haunted, and never quite finished.

Unique Perspective

Ideas are easy. Perspective is the hard part. Mine is shaped by a graduate background in sociology, a decade of studying who history forgets, and the belief that a place can hold onto a story the same way a person does.

It shows up in every page I write, and every trip I plan.

When I'm not at my desk, you'll find me wandering a cemetery for fun, or researching my next hypothetical adventure.

A woman with glasses and curly gray hair sitting on a wooden bench outside, holding a book, in front of stone stairs leading up to wooden doors, with an old stone building and a tall church spire in the background.

Inspirations

I'm endlessly drawn to stories—in books and in places—that treat the past like it's still breathing. My shelves are full of novels where forgotten women get to be the ones telling it, where magic hides in the ordinary, and where a place carries as much memory as any character does. Give me a plaque, a graveyard, or a footnote, and I'll disappear for hours.

I can't stop exploring the stories that reveal what got left out of the official version—whether that's a novel or a place I'm standing in.

A woman with glasses and curly gray hair leaning on a black wrought iron railing, with a Gothic cathedral tower in the background on an overcast day.

Before I called
myself a writer…

I was a poet, quietly, for years—the kind of writing that fits in the margins of a life already full. But then overnight I was a mom of teenagers, not toddlers, with more room to breathe than I'd had in a decade. And I was someone who kept saying "someday" to the bigger dream—the book, the trips I wanted to actually take—until I had a sudden loss and learned that not everyone gets a someday.

This taught me that waiting is its own kind of cost, which now shapes both the stories I write and the trips I help other people finally take.