My Work
Welcome! Here, we defend free speech, respect historical wisdom, and resist cultural rot. Like all authors, my writing is based on personal experience. I'm a mom. I had cancer. I grew up in a divorce situation, and one home was a same-sex household. I went to Emory during Trump's first term, so I was educated during a time of crisis in universities across the country. This resulted in a solipsistic, postmodernist culture that didn't just challenge but despised tradition. I'm just not okay with academia hating one-half of all Americans and inducing identity crises in their pupils.
Screens and the Ego
2023
Defiance Press publishes high-quality, principled fiction with an emphasis on liberty and country. It was founded to platform voices sidelined by mainstream publishers, and my book critiqued progressivism at a time when it was still scary to do that.
Through the lens of a young Muslim woman struggling with the dualities of her identity, Screens and the Ego weaves between haunting tales of displaced immigrants, reflections on mental health treatment failures, and meditations on the quest for authenticity in an increasingly performative world, and what we've lost in our scientific approach to human suffering: the concept of the soul itself.
The Narrative Game
2021
Sad Girls Club began as a literary blog and evolved into something more profound.
The Narrative Game examines the relationship between a father addicted to opioids in the rust belt.
Hope Walker
2018
Stories that Need to be Told is a writing anthology and publication.
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Hope Walker investigates a Vietnam veteran and grandfather adopts his free-spirited granddaughter.
Why I Hate Bananas
2017
Longer Than Expected is Wising Up Press's publication on the aftermath of cancer and terminal illness.
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Why I Hate Bananas is about my experience with and the lifelong effects of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
​What shaped me to be the woman I am now?
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My career has been all over the place. In 2020, I graduated with a degree in Arabic Language and Comparative Literature. As a humanities major job hunting during the pandemic, I had trouble finding a professional job. Because I had a high GRE score and high marks in microeconomics and calculus, I applied to a single Master of Finance program. In that one application, I was awarded a merited applicant scholarship. It's a blessing to receive financial aid for a graduate-level finance degree, so I accepted; even though balance sheets and cash flow statements are not exactly my passion.
While earning my Finance degree, I worked as a Youth Specialist for teenage female wards of the state whose behavior was too extreme for foster care placement. It confirmed my existing gripes about therapy. The residents of the institution in which I worked were constantly given therapeutic treatments that failed to do anything about endemic dysfunction, self-harm, and on more than one occasion real violence. If there are no results, you're not an expert at healing people. I graduated with my MS Finance and ended the position as a Youth Specialist in 2022.
I began an internship for Tech Writing and SEO that turned into a full time position from 2022-2024. I worked for two years at my first company in marketing until I became pregnant with a baby girl. Then, I pivoted to 1099 contract work for a different company in SEO and started a funded MFA in creative writing. ​​
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More About Me
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Pregnancy was magical, though it left me with lingering sciatica. I took a blood test and learned her gender when she was only seven weeks old: the size of a blueberry. Hearing the heartbeat of a blueberry-sized human changed me forever. ​ As of now, we only have one daughter. The experience of motherhood has been the subject of a lot of my writing because it is so emotional: complicated but rewarding.
Our house is intergenerational, which a rare gift to my daughter, myself, and my mom. My mom loves spending her time with her grandbaby. I love being able to occasionally go to school or yoga without paying a babysitter or daycare. Baby loves being taken care of by her own blood in her own house. Also, if dad, mom, and grandma agree on something then it's probably a good idea. Intergenerational living allows us to pool our finances, save $2000 per month in rent that one of us would be spending on an additional apartment, and eat a lot more home cooked meals when Grandma and mom can alternate.
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My husband is an actuary and also significantly smarter than me. He is a regular guest on Defense Politics Asia​ and he runs some reading salons in New York City. He grew up in Houston, Texas. He's a competent marksman.
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