• Happy New Year! Off to Graduate!

    Happy 2015 my dear readers! May it bring you love and joy and beauty (not to mention, lots and lots of writing, of course)! The year 2014 has been pretty exciting. I completed the second half of my studies at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Learned up to my ears. Wrote a critical thesis delving into novels in verse. Finished a draft…


  • Things Don’t Just Happen: On Cause and Effect, In Fiction Anyway

    Do you believe in serendipity? Happy coincidences shaping your life? Do things just happen to you? Or has a chain of decisions and actions brought you to where you are today? A combination of both? Randomness may have a place in real life from time to time — and even that we could argue about. But…


  • The Realities of Slush

    After more than a month “on the other side of the desk” with a literary agency, I thought I’d give you a bit of a scoop on the infamous concept of a slush pile. Yes, it’s real, though in the age of email it’s not an actual pile, but an overflowing inbox of potential treasure.…