Fiction

Here lies fiction—my favorite form of writing.

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Below, you’ll find links to samples of my two completed manuscripts: Whistler in the Stacks (completed 2020) and Hummingbirdie (completed 2024). I am currently working on a third novel, entitled Half Tide House.

All of these novels are unpublished, and I plan to seek representation for them. I graduated from undergrad in 2023 and just completed graduate school in 2025; I have not been able to pour my time into an agent search until now. Despite that little wrench in my authorial plan, I have been writing all the while, and I hope to find a literary agent to work with in my pursuit of becoming a published author.

In addition to showcasing Whistler in the Stacks and Hummingbirdie, this website also includes two shorter pieces of fiction: “How to Check Your Car’s Oil (It’s Basically Like Testing for Chlamydia at your Underfunded Health Department)” and “FNCY CORN SNKE 203.” The former is a short story, the latter is flash fiction. They are both short and silly.

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Large Decoration with Masks c. 1953 Henri Matisse

Novel Manuscripts:

  • Whistler in the Stacks
    • Young Adult (YA) Southern Gothic Fiction
    • 106,000 words
    • Based in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina at a (haunted) all girls boarding school
    • Pitch: A ghost trapped inside the library of Holloway’s Preparatory Academy for Young Ladies, and seventeen-year-old Adalane must decide whether to help him escape.
    • Read more details and the first chapter here.
  • Hummingbirdie
    • New Adult (NA) Upmarket Fiction
    • 75,000 words
    • Set Between New York City and across the state of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, Durham, and Appalachia broadly)
    • Pitch: In HUMMINGBIRDIE, a witty and reflective 22-year-old unpacks her chaotic college years—filled with soulmate friendships, overlapping Persian love interests, and unexpected emotional depth—as she begins to understand how the messiest moments shaped the woman she’s becoming.
    • Read more details and the first three chapters here.

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Short Fiction:

  • How to Check Your Car’s Oil (It’s Basically Like Testing for Chlamydia at your Underfunded Health Department)”
    • Short story
    • A humorous step-by-step guide that essentially tells of what it is like to be a girl in her late teens/early 20s navigating car troubles (and a potential STI).
    • 1,550 words
    • Read here.
  • FNCY CORN SNKE 203
    • Flash fiction
    • To the tune of Appalachian snake handling, pseudo-religious fundamentalism, and mid-2010s culture (ukulele and all)
    • 1,000 words
    • Read here.

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