It’s publication day for my newest essay about motherhood and identity - you can read it at Literary Mama.

Like most writers, I have a day job. Fortunately, I have one that I love: I’m the executive director of a small charity on the island where I live. I spend my days worrying about food security and trying to build community, and keep people fed.

Which explains why “service” is such a loaded topic for me, one that I needed to unpack in my essay “The Trap of Service,” because being of service is what I do for a living, and those acts of service help define who I am and how I move through the world.

During the three months I spent in Saudi Arabia after fleeing my first husband, we took a road trip to the city of Jeddah.

Here’s an account of one day on that road trip….

“The Trap of Service” is a braided memoir essay about the myth of Cinderella and learning how to be of service without betraying myself.

It’s publication day for my newest essay: Snapshot.

You can read the story on Bright Flash Literary Review.

Published in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes my Essay explores identity against the backdrop of Saudi Arabia.

Published in the Unseen Agreements Anthology, my speculative short story “The Flavour of Memory” explores the relationship between grief and food (with Goblins.)

It’s publication day for The Hare’s Choice. Learn more about the story and where to purchase a copy.

It’s publication day for my newest story: The hag stone and the hawthorn tree. A retelling of the legendary Scottish ballad of Tam Lin.

Available at The Orange & Bee.

It’s publication day for a new flash essay on writing and climate change featured in Island Writer Magazine.

It’s publication day for a short little essay I wrote about my Grandma Laura Slaughter in The Keepthings project.

What role do bystanders play in the lives of others?

My latest essay “Don’t Ignore the Ashes” published at Hippocampus Magazine, explore the harm looking away does to victims of violence.

Recently I read a craft essay on memoir about finding your lane and staying there. The author’s words stuck with me because my collection deals with a variety of subjects.
What’s my lane? I wondered. Does trauma count as a lane?

Recording the audio became an unexpected gift for my essay “Look Away.”

At a recent event, a kid got me thinking about narrative, and how invested we get in the stories we hear, and we tell, whether those are our favourite fairy tales or the stories of our own traumas.

“Happily Ever After” is the next of my fairy tale memoir essays and published at Two Hawks Quarterly.

Persephone is my favourite myth to retell - there are so many things to unpack in the familiar version. Carmina Magazine published my retelling. Details here.

Exploring why women in abusive relationships return, interwoven with the story of Hansel and Gretel.

My retelling of the Princess on the Glass Mountain Fairy Tale is now out at Crow and Cross Keys.

Do rejections make better origin stories? Or is the real blessing that I can worry about my writing in the first place?