Debut Novel Coming in 2025

 

Really happy to be able to share the news that my novel, Smaller Animals, will published in November 2025.

I just got the cover and proofs from my publisher Collective Ink earlier this month and it's the culmination to this point of a journey that started back in the summer of 2019 when I decided to take the plunge and see if I had a full novel in me. In a broader sense, I've been writing creatively since high school, in various forms, and this has been a goal I never thought I'd really reach. It's exciting, humbling and sort of unbelievable all at once.

Stay tuned for more on how to pre-order and definitely let me know if you'd be interested in connecting on this!

New Poem

 Lament for Eden

You faded the other day,
like light in Eire’s west,
retiring from beating time,
sun and sweat, closing in shutters
making a mess of bed clothes.

These were the bookshelves we left
unorganized, the tattooed skin I
couldn’t interpret, absent-minded that
I was back then.

I was innocent of it, nursing
grief wounds that came
unhealed, scabrous in time,
that you had helped sew up
lick clean, dress in
silk covering.

And how playful we were, naked,
unashamed, frolicking through
meadows, melodious, without care
for cuts a branch bramble
would give to those not
heeding.

I fell too easily then, coarse
feet against night air and
grass stain; that the trick
mirror had revealed all
was worsened from wear.

As your form turned void,
shapeless then unholy, I wept:

thinking of how we would never
again be so close to our
Garden, always so distant
from Grace, in glass highways

endless stone arches.