Non-fiction Projects

Shiny Happy People + Speak + Jesus and John Wayne. 

Told alternatingly between dissociative blog posts, incognito internet search histories, journaled prayers and a telescoping narrative that moves progressively from distant third to first person, THE DAUGHTER shows-not-tells how high control religious family life teaching cultivates abuse.

 Sixteen-year-old Hope, stay-at-home-daughter and eldest of the nine children in her Quiverfull family, wants nothing more than to embrace an attitude of J-O-Y (Jesus first, Others second, Yourself last). But underneath the cheerful spiritual veneer, the dark reality of sexual and spiritual abuse festers, compounded by purity culture, instant obedience, and corporal punishment. When Hope recognizes that her abuser is grooming her younger sister, things spiral out of control, forcing Hope to finally abandon the only role that’s defined her and take the first integrated steps on the difficult and bittersweet path to freedom. 

Biblical fiction meets historical magical realism in this adult novel that tells the story of the five women of Exodus 1-2 who together rebel against the most powerful man in the world and the supernatural pantheon of Egypt, and, in so doing, help to save their people. 

Miriam, the shepherdess and secret scribe, comes face-to-face with her own shame and God’s seeming absence. Shiphrah, the self-made spinster midwife and her apprentice Puah risk everything when they disobey Pharaoh’s bloodthirsty orders. Jochebed, the wife and mother weighed down by stillbirths and a failing marriage, hides her long-awaited son and overcomes impossible circumstances with extraordinary faith. Bithia, the barren princess desperate for a miracle, fights through her cynicism and discovers, with all the women, that there is indeed a God who powerfully and redemptively responds to His peoples’ cries. 

Companion novel set among the teenage exiles—Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah—in Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon.

THE WOODLAND REALMS - the first in a middle-grade fantasy series of Redwall meets Beatrix Potter set amongst hobbit-like hedgehogs. In this book, the hedgehogs must work with Arthurian felines and the ghastly night-moths to discover why birds are mysteriously disappearing and, in so doing, save the forest from the looming threat to their way of life. 

THE DAWNING - The Aos Sei fairies face insurmountable odds as their centuries long war with their powerful and ancient ocean-borne enemies the Fomorians comes to a close. Out of desperation, a rag-tag group of fairies follow mysterious celestial signs that lead them to a remote hillside and a young boy named Sochet in this magical realism retelling of the legends of St. Patrick from the perspective of fairyland.