Full Biography:
I was born in the screen-free era of the 1980s in a small town in Western Pennsylvania. My family soon moved to a suburb outside Washington, D.C., and eventually settled in a farming town in Ohio. But Western Pennsylvania remained a touchstone in my life, and I visited my grandparents’ magical farm multiple times a year, where the woods and gardens felt alive with untold stories.
As a child, I was drawn to history, folklore, and ghost stories (the haunted history books I read can still keep me up at night), and I spent long summer afternoons in my town’s one-room library, determined to work my way through entire series—Nancy Drew, R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike. Those books, along with my favorite movies and sitcoms, inspired me to start writing my own stories.
In high school, during a beach vacation, I stumbled upon a worn copy of Practical Magic tucked inside a rental condo’s TV cabinet. Like many who discover Alice Hoffman’s worlds, I was forever changed. I fell in love with stories rooted in the ordinary yet shimmering with something just beyond explanation. I believe our world is more magical than we realize, and if we pay attention, the veil sometimes thins just enough for the unexplainable to slip through.
After high school, I attended Kent State University, earning a degree in Photo Illustration/Journalism with a minor in Art History. I loved college life so much that I returned to Kent State to complete my Master’s in Library and Information Science, with a specialization in Local History and Archives.
My library career included digitizing historical collections in a windowless office to help build the Summit Memory Project and guiding others in uncovering their local and family histories. Later, I developed and led an accredited library at a community college. But writing had always been the quiet thread running through my life. After the birth of my first child, we moved to Nashville, and I stepped away from traditional library work to shift into a career in content writing. I now create curricula, articles, newsletters, and books, growing from editor to ghostwriter to co-author.
Along the way, I fell deeply in love with the work of Shirley Jackson. Reading her biography reignited a spark within me. Her relentless drive to write, despite the challenges and mental load of being a mother, strengthened my own resolve to continue writing, regardless of the season of life I am in.
Today, I write novels that blend all the elements I love: mystery, magic, gothic undertones, psychological depth, and generational family dramas. My stories are set in a fictional Western Pennsylvania town called Danbury. Each novel stands alone yet remains connected by place. Familiar names reappear across generations, and families carry secrets through time. My stories explore the thin space between the ordinary and the unexplainable, worlds real enough to step into, yet supernatural enough to make readers wonder if their own lives might hold hidden mysteries waiting to be discovered.