I’m a literary historical fiction author drawn to the tender, hidden threads of the human story. I write novels that echo with longing, wrestle with loss, and reach toward grace. My characters often stand at the edge of silence, of war, of love long buried—and they walk forward anyway, tracing the fragile shape of a life remade.
Though I now dwell in fiction, my creative journey began with poetry and painting. Words and brushstrokes once carried me through grief, through the tangled legacies of family and faith. That past still hums beneath everything I write. You may glimpse it in my poetry collection, Borne to Unfurl, and in the archived work I still hold close — the beginnings of learning how to listen for beauty inside the ache.
But these days, I live inside story.
My current novel-in-progress, The Hand That Sows the Stars, follows a war-haunted fisherman crossing the Atlantic in search of the woman he once loved—and the meaning he thought he’d lost. It’s a story not just of redemptive love, but of legacy, memory, and the quiet courage it takes to begin again.
I believe fiction can be a lantern. A compass, a kind of alchemy that turns sorrow into light.
That’s why I write: to name what was unspoken. To offer tenderness where the world forgot to. To make meaning of the ache.
Thank you for being here. I hope something in these pages speaks to the quiet parts of your own story — the ones still listening for grace.
I believe the spaces between words matter as much as the words themselves.
I write my first draft of any work in longhand.
My ancestors were ecclesiastics and poets.
My favourite writing companion is a cup of cappuccino or a mug of London Fog tea.
I believe stories can stitch the soul together.
I am the daughter of a WWII veteran.
I've walked the beaches of Normandy and battlefields in Holland in reverent silence.
I believe some stories choose us, not the other way around.
Old letters, found objects, and family heirlooms often whisper their way into my fiction.
I live in Toronto with my husband, a collection of books, journals, art, and running shoes (his, not mine).
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"The sheer heartfelt emotion grips one's soul and leaves an enduring impression."
"Her writing lingers like a half-remembered dream, aching and profoundly human."
"She captures the quiet power of love and loss with such clarity that the characters feel like old friends you never knew you missed."
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