I believe stories are culture-making.

And 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. Especially queer writers. Especially anyone whose lived experience disrupts the dominant narrative.

I’m not interested in shrinking.
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And I’m certainly not interested in helping you shrink.​
My work begins where stories have been silenced.
I’m not here to “fix” your writing.

I’m not here to make you sound polite, marketable, or safe.

I’m here to sit with you in the places where your story feels too big, too honest, too complicated — the places you were taught to quiet — and help you shape that truth into something clear, confident, and deeply resonant.

I help people write the book they needed ten years ago because I needed those books too:

Books written by people who were done performing smallness.
Books that refuse to look away.
Books that tell the truth without apology.

Who I  Am Behind the Work

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 real 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 — not exploiting them.

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.

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.)
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And yes — I homeschooled my daughter into college at 14, because I believe in building systems where people can thrive, not just survive.

What I Believe

I believe that the personal is political — especially on the page.

I believe that writing is a form of resistance.

I believe that telling the truth is not an indulgence, but a public service. I believe in feminist mentorship:
supportive, collaborative, rigorous, and anti-hierarchy.

Not “guru–follower.”

​Not “editor–obedience.”

But a relationship where your autonomy and voice are central. My editorial work is part craft, part midwifery, part witnessing — and rooted firmly in the belief that stories from the margins deserve to be told with power, precision, and dignity.

What I Do

 I support authors — memoirists, poets, essayists, and fiction writers — as they strengthen their craft, refine their voice, and bring their work into a publishing landscape that wasn’t built for them, but needs them. I offer structure without control, clarity without erasure, and partnership without power games.

I meet you as a collaborator, not a gatekeeper. If you're carrying a story you were told was “too much,” it's time to write it. And you’re not supposed to do it alone. You bring experience, truth, vulnerability, courage.

I bring editorial rigor, publishing knowledge, and a feminist backbone that refuses to let you abandon yourself on the page. Together, we build the book you’ve been trying to write — the one you’ve known all along was yours.

​Let’s do it together.