a BIT ABOUT ME
My work begins where stories have been silenced.
I believe stories are culture-making and that books are the container for lived art. More importantly, I believe that when marginalized voices step into their narrative power, culture shifts.
For too long, writers have been told to shrink, to simplify, soften, tidy, or make themselves easier to digest. Especially women, queer writers, and anyone whose lived experience disrupts the dominant narrative.
I’m not interested in shrinking, and I’m definitely not interested in helping you shrink. I am also not here to “fix” your writing, make you sound polite, marketable, or safe.
I’m here to sit with you in the places where your work feels too big, too honest, or too complicated—the places you were taught to hush—and help you shape that truth into something clear, confident, and fiercely resonant.
I help people write the book they needed ten years ago because I needed those books too.
I’m a published author, former journalist, and longtime copywriter who has spent my career inside the literary margins: the independent presses, the grassroots projects, the creative spaces where voices are nurtured rather than filtered.
I’m the publisher at Unsolicited Press, a fiercely independent press committed to ethical publishing and elevating underrepresented voices. The press is a place where I bring people together into community and truly believe that we should be working together to champion every poem, story, and essay.
I’m also the creator behind The Rolling Joy Project, a feminist, queer-adjacent, community-rooted art-car and storytelling movement that turns joy, defiance, and visibility into cultural activism. It’s my little passion project.
I’m a firstborn daughter and a Leo, which means I’ve spent a lifetime navigating expectations, breaking inherited patterns, and choosing to lead rather than wait for permission. Life is full of narrative tension; I am intimately familiar with the creative, emotional, and feminist labor of holding onto your voice in environments that don’t always reflect or support it. (If anything, it’s made me better at helping writers trust themselves.)
And yes—I homeschooled my daughter into college at 14, because I believe in building systems where people can thrive, not just survive.
Who I Am Behind the Work
What I Believe
I believe the personal is political. Writing is resistance; truth-telling is not a luxury; it’s a public service. I believe in mentorship that’s supportive, collaborative, rigorous, and anti-hierarchical: no guru–follower theatrics, no editor–obedience scripts. Instead, mentorship that centers your autonomy and amplifies your voice. My editorial work is craft and midwifery, witness and stubborn allyship—because stories from the margins deserve to be told with power, precision, and dignity.
What I DO
I support authors, editors, publishers, and creative people who want to move through the publishing world with confidence. Whether you are writing a book, revising a manuscript, starting a small press, strengthening an existing project, or figuring out where your publishing process keeps breaking down, I help you find the structure, strategy, and confidence to move forward.
I offer editorial rigor, publishing knowledge, honest guidance, and a feisty backbone. You bring the story, the vision, and the courage. Together, we build the book, press, project, or publishing path you have been trying to create.
Let’s do it together.
Contact ME
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