I write fiction about ordinary lives shaped by the institutions that hold them—and the ones that fail them.

I’m drawn to family sagas and quieter novels alongside them, and especially to fiction that earns its architecture, where the shape of the telling is part of the meaning. I came to writing after two decades of reading systems for a living—how decisions actually get made, who carries the weight, where the official story diverges from the real one.

Fiction is the form that lets me stay with the people those systems pass through—what the architecture asks of them, what it gives, what it takes.

I’m querying my debut novel, with a second underway. I live in Washington, DC with my family.