I believe I’ve always been a writer at heart. Throughout my life, I have often been drawn to the craft as a path to emotional survival, to help process an overwhelming physical world.

I came to write fiction after years of having buried many of my creative dreams under the tech company I’d started after college. The stresses of my “day job” ultimately drove me to write my first novel, a project that required me to dedicate huge blocks of time I couldn’t afford to part with to writing. I was so desperate for an escape that somehow I was able to give myself permission to make the time to see it through.

Fiction as a medium gave me a kind of freedom and relief from reality that I’d never experienced before with personal memoir. For the first time, I was allowed to fold my personal experiences and thoughts into a fantasy world that I could control—one with a happy ending too! This addictive quality of the creative life continues to draw me back to the page, grounding me and giving me a measure of control and a sense of accomplishment when the real world refuses to cooperate.

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