If you have come to this page, then you are curious about me and my writing. For most of my life, I have been an academic, teaching in higher education. On the side, I am always looking for a good story to think about and then make into reality.
All my work, whether it’s academic or fictional, focuses on understanding the past. In my non-fiction articles, notes, and book reviews, I tend to focus on Native American Studies and Comparative Literature. Even if these stories manifest themselves as cultural myths, it is important to explore them to truly understand our cultural past.
In my fictional works, the focus on marginalization is oftentimes outside of racialized or gendered spheres. Many times, it can mean being an angst-ridden teenager with a dysfunctional family or a first-generation American attempting to find oneself. In each case, my characters’ journeys through horror-filled worlds work as one way for them to self-identify and make sense of their world. More importantly, most of my writing is between genres, simply because I do not believe that exploring the world, especially what is wrong with it, can be so neatly categorized. In my opinion, the beauty of literary genres is the fluidity of their tendencies.