Short StoriesWhile completing my Master's in English, I realized that voice existed within my writing with the same indigenous complexity as minerals embedded in rock and, that with careful composition, I could excavate it. Since then I've written numerous short stories. One of many artifacts I've recently excavated is a short work of creative nonfiction, "Best If Used By," which was published by Connotation Press. |
Novels
I've written my suspense novels in The Profiler Series based on my belief that an increase in female serial killers has created a need in fiction to explore the tension between these women and the society that is shaping them. I thus present antagonists who are fictional composites of real female serial killers.  My protagonist, FBI profiler, Riley Cruz, is a bit edgy, I'm told, a visionary with personal stamina and guts. The first novel in the series, Vengeance Is Mine: The Profiler's Passion, is a finalist in the prestigious Golden Pen.
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PoetryAs an undergraduate English major, I admired the expressive heights Shakespeare achieved through a fastidious attention to craft and deference to form. While I've had free-form poetry published in Chimaera and Nexus, I still feel the bard's strong influence as I complete "Painstorm for Masochists," my first chapbook of sonnets. I'm also passionate about the sestina and the villanelle. |
