Hi creative community,

Happy 2025!

I hope you are well and thriving six weeks into 2025.

Two quick things:

Last fall, I was thrilled to be on book tour for Doll Seed: Stories. I took a break during the holidays and am gearing up for 2025. My first stop is in North Carolina! I was in the state in October (Pittsboro) and November (Greensboro) and am happy to be coming back.

For local North Carolina peeps,I’ll be back in NC at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill on Tuesday, Feb 11 at 5:30pm. I’ll be in conversation with the amazing Marjorie Hudson, a dear friend and mentor! When we’re together there’s magic!We’ll talk about speculative fiction, themes in Doll Seed: Stories including freedom and sacrifice, trust and betrayal, intersections of identity, and writing about settings that haunt us. I’ll read from the collection and we’ll have Q&A.I’m so excited to meet with a community of people that I miss very much. And, look forward to meeting people I don’t know, too.I hope to see you there!

Second thing:

I have a new website coming (finally!) and will most likely be transferring my blog over there. Details coming soon!