I use my fiction as a lens through which to relate the horror and the hope in the world. Sometimes, that lens is cautionary; other times, it’s cathartic. Sometimes it’s horrific, sometimes it’s hopeful, and often it’s both.

Artist statement

I write and explore occult horror—supernatural, folk, cosmic, even religious—because it delves into the deepest parts of the human condition: the beliefs and superstitions that emerge from our oldest collective memories and the darkest recesses of our consciousness. These bring us to face forces so much bigger than ourselves that they drag us from our egos into a world we’re just part of, rather than one we expect dominion over.

People have been trying to exert dominion since the dawn of time, and so much of the horror and hopelessness we feel today is rooted there: fascists are destroying our government, AI is destroying our culture, capitalism is destroying our environment, and they’ve all made it seem inevitable because they want, above all else, to cling to their own dominion.

But there are cracks in their façade of inevitability: imagination, empathy, and solidarity. So I’m also writing and exploring hope, because I’m trying to will those things into being.

Horror shows us where the road leads if we do nothing. Hope shows us where it can lead when we act.