WRITING
Short Stories
“Alice in the Pool”
Took the First-Place Prize for Prose in the Vox Arts and Literary Journal 2013 Spring/Summer writing contest.
Literary Criticism
"Sex, Death, and the Never Never Land: Conflicting Fantasies in James Barrie’s Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up."
Published in Transactions, vol. 18, May 2014. Awarded Excellence in Humanities by the Pace University Dyson Society of Fellows.
“Nothing but the Blackest Art: Rhetorical Magic and the Art of Enchantment in Jane Austen."
Published in Transactions, vol. 19, May 2015.
MANUSCRIPTS
PUBLICATIONS
THE GHOST MATCHMAKER
Sylvia Sterling does not believe in ghosts. She is just trying to get her start in life, when she finds herself an unlikely matchmaker to the dead.
But Catherine de La Art isn’t like other ghosts; she has led a respectable afterlife, even permitting the city to convert her house on Rigby Lane into a museum. Surely finding a match for her shouldn’t be too difficult? In fact, Sylvia has just the dead poet in mind.
He’s a little awkward, certainly, with his shabby tweeds and old fashion manners, but after getting to know Leslie Siclair, Sylvia is convinced that it would be impossible for any woman, living or dead, not to fall just a little in love with him—except her, of course. She doesn’t have the time. She’s much too busy making a living to get a life.
IMMORTAL ENEMY
Jasna is a serial killer with only one victim. A graphic designer flunking out of college in upstate New York, she keeps to herself. But her chance encounter with pre-med student Dorian spirals into a twisted fixation. Her uncanny opposite in every way, she can’t help being drawn to him.
Stalking him around campus, her obsession escalates, until one night, she murders Dorian–only to see him in class the next day like nothing happened.
Desperate to discover the secret of his immortality, Jasna insinuates herself into his life. But when their unlikely friendship turns romantic, she begins to suspect Dorian knows more than he’s letting on.
THE BELLEWITE MYSTERY (WIP)
The roaring twenties are over—it’s time for Maddie Brown to settle down. A Manhattan socialite with a penchant for scandal, she’s pressured into an engagement with a respectable doctor. But on a scenic drive upstate, Maddie gets cold feet and runs away to be a postwoman in a mystical town on the shores of the Hudson River.
Time moves slowly there: the local seamstress practices folk magic under the watchful eye of the church; a mysterious woodsman wanders the hills in an ancient greatcoat, consulting with spirits and hunting the mythical beasts strangely drawn to the woods bordering town. Awakening suppressed powers of her own, Maddie strives to build a new life there.
But when a witchfinder arrives in town to solve the disappearance of the last postwoman, Maddie finds herself caught in a web of magic and murder only a true wise woman could unravel. She may not be the cleverest witch in the coven, but Maddie isn’t going to let any man or mystery run her out of town.