My Work

My Writing

I write to explore my identity and what it means to be human. My work blends literary fiction, surrealism, philosophy, and psychological realism to examine memory, identity, trauma, faith, time, nature, and hope. I mainly dapple in fiction, but I also love writing academic papers in philosophy, history, and English.

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Featured Work

Hearth

Cover artwork for Hearth

Novel in Progress

Hearth

A surreal literary fantasy exploring identity, memory, trauma, power, empathy, and the unstable boundary between dreams and reality.

  • Identity
  • Memory
  • Time
  • Trauma
  • Hope
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Writing Categories

Explore my fiction, poetry, essays, research, and personal reflections.

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Novels

Long-form stories that combine literary fiction, surrealism, fantasy, and psychological exploration.

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Short Stories

Smaller fictional worlds built around atmosphere, relationships, nature, memory, and transformation.

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Poetry

Poems about emotion, nature, faith, grief, identity, beauty, and the body.

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Essays & Research

Academic, cultural, philosophical, historical, and personal investigations.

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Edenseek

Children’s books and comics published through Edenseek Publishing.

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Long-Form Fiction

Novels

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Additional long-form projects will appear here as they develop.

Short Fiction

Short Stories

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Short Fiction

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Poems

Poetry

Poem

Lasrever

And just like that, he — everything — changed...

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Poem

The Beauty of a Teardrop

They quench the thirsting drought of your mind...

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Poem

Boy

From afar, he is gorgeous. Closer, spots litter his face...

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Analysis & Inquiry

Essays & Research

Academic, cultural, philosophical, historical, and personal investigations. More are collected on the essays index.

Criticism

Blood Moon

A review of Blood Moon by Apes & Androids — an album built on distortion, distance, and disorientation, ambitious in composition and uneven in its lyrics.

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Edenseek Publishing

Books & Comics

Work published through Edenseek Publishing, the company my father and I run. We present at New York Comic Con every year. More at edenseek.com.

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Comic Book

Venus

A story about a genius woman who uses her intelligence to fix and solve problems, without ever solving her own. She embarks on a journey into a virtual world to try and come to terms with herself.

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Children’s Books

Egypt the Cat

A picture-book series following Egypt the cat, written by me and published by Edenseek.

  1. Egypt in Magic, Magic, Magic
  2. Egypt in Dance Mania
  3. Egypt Leaves Los Angeles
  4. Egypt in Time
  5. Egypt in the Future
  6. Egypt in the Space Labyrinth Not yet written
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Edenseek

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Further books and comics will be collected here as they are published.

Recurring Ideas

Themes in My Writing

These ideas repeatedly appear throughout my fiction, poetry, essays, and reflections.

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Why I Write

My Writing Philosophy

I am interested in writing that does not simplify uncertainty. I want stories and poems to hold contradiction: beauty and fear, tenderness and violence, fantasy and reality, control and freedom.

My writing often begins with an image, emotion, question, or contradiction. From there, I build worlds that allow those ideas to transform.

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