My fiction is often interstitial, combining elements of magical realism, history, and contemporary literature. I'm interested in the intersection of the spiritual and secular, the supernatural and the everyday, the past and the present I'm fascinated by people's relationship with religion, the psychological interaction between people in all types of relationships, and by the miraculous and the frightening (often the same thing).

Short Stories
"Stone Windows" was included in the "Windows" collection (issue #6) at Behind the Wainscot, the well-regarded short fiction companion site to Farrago's Wainscot. "Dryad" was included in the March 2008 issue of Serendipity, a British magical realist publication.

Novellas and Novels
My novella Simon's Relics, the story of a disillusioned priest who sells fake relics during the plague that wiped out London in 1348, and the strange healing and transformative power he reluctantly accepts, was a semi-finalist in the novella category of the 2007 Faulkner-Wisdom creative writing competition. 

I am currently seeking representation for my two completed novels, THE MIDNIGHT SON and THE PILGRIM GLASS.

THE MIDNIGHT SON is the story of a boy abandoned by his parents just weeks after his older brother mysteriously disappears.  Twenty years later he is contacted by his estranged father – and suddenly begins seeing his lost brother everywhere he goes. Is it wishful thinking? Is his brother still alive? A ghost?  Or is he going insane?

Erik Myklebust, a thirty-something shop assistant in Bergen, Norway, has lost direction in his life.  When his father, Erlend, contacts him after 20 years of silence, Erik reluctantly returns to his grandparents’ fjordland farm to face his father.  On the way, Erik meets Carrie, an enigmatic American tourist who seems to have information about his missing brother – whom they both see in the wilds above the Sognefjord, in the streets of Oslo, in the tall stave church in Borgund.  When Erik learns that the mother who abandoned him as a child has returned to Norway , he and Carrie embark on a journey to uncover his past – and recover his future. 

THE MIDNIGHT SON, a semi-finalist in the 2007 Faulkner-Wisdom competition is a contemporary novel, a modern fairy tale.  It is a lyrical tale of loss, of the power of story, the weight of history, and the challenge of forgiveness.  This story will appeal to readers who enjoy works such as Alice Hoffman's THE ICE QUEEN or Timothy Findley's PILGRIM.

Read a sample chapter from THE MIDNIGHT SON
Click to hear me reading an excerpt from THE MIDNIGHT SON on KFJC (89.7FM in the Bay Area)


THE PILGRIM GLASS, a finalist in the 2005 Faulkner-Wisdom creative writing competition, is the story of an artist, a priest, and a photographer, and the restoration of a stained glass one summer in Vézelay, France. This is no ordinary glass, however; it has a strange, almost hypnotic effect on them, changing them in positive and destructive ways.

Jonas Flycatcher, a well-respected but prickly artisan in his early 30s, is contracted to repair a stained glass found deep in the ancient altar of the cathedral of Mary Magdalene at Vézelay. He travels from California to Burgundy for the project and there meets his contact, Abbot Dubay, a worldly priest with a painful secret. Jonas begins the laborious work of restoring the stained glass offering, but when he meets and falls for Meredith, an ex-pat photographer who seems to be channeling a 12^th century pilgrim, his carefully constructed world – and the ancient glass – are threatened. When lives are seemingly shattered, he is forced to decide whether he can pick up the pieces once again.

THE PILGRIM GLASS is a blend of suspense and art history, an investigation of the intersection of the spiritual and secular, the supernatural and the everyday, the past and the present.

Read a sample chapter from THE PILGRIM GLASS