I am a writer and painter working in the Southern Gothic tradition, exploring memory, inheritance, grief, and the emotional architecture of place.
My visual work centers on houses as living vessels—structures that absorb what is endured within them and quietly refuse to forget. Rendered in expressive, layered oil, my paintings treat architecture not as backdrop but as body: a container for trauma, tenderness, and transformation. In my Houses on Fire series and related works, buildings burn not for spectacle, but for survival.
In addition to canvas-based work, I design interior environments through site-specific painting, including immersive ceiling and architectural installations. These spaces are created to be lived with over time—responsive to light, movement, and mood—transforming rooms into emotional landscapes rather than decorative surfaces. I approach interiors as narrative environments, where atmosphere carries meaning and walls listen.
My fiction moves through similar terrain. I write Gothic narratives rooted in history and place, where the past is active, inheritance is dangerous, and silence has consequences. My current work, The Orchard of Teeth, blends folklore, psychological unease, and generational reckoning, concerned less with spectacle than with what lingers—what families bury, what landscapes remember, and what eventually demands to be named.
My work is shaped by lived experience, illness, survival, and the long process of rebuilding—both body and self. These themes surface not as autobiography, but as undercurrents, informing a body of work preoccupied with endurance, reclamation, and witness.
I live and work in the Midwest, in a historic home that continues to teach me how spaces hold memory—and how they speak back.