Hey there.

I’m a North Carolina writer looking at the world and making some sense of it for me through writing. I hope you'll linger a while and find your stories in my own.

I’m a child of northeastern North Carolina, where the roads are flat and the dirt is rich and filled with cotton, corn and soybeans in the summer. Climb a magnolia, and it will take you into the sky and to the story of it. Claw your hand in the rich sandy soil, and you’ll never really clean it from beneath your nails.

I moved to the city for college, then jobs and beyond, and it’s when I finally put down new roots as a wife and mother that I began to weave myself a story, using the gifts I’d been given — and the education my father paid for — to put the story out into the world. I’m now a novelist, editor, writing teacher, amateur photographer, grandmother, mom, daughter, sister, Episcopalian, friend and cancer warrior. I am weaving all those pieces of me into an indelible tapestry, just like Carole King said. Come along. You might find yourself right here with me.