Bio

I am a writer and blogger based in Northeast Florida. In 2013 I graduated magna cum laude from Flagler college with a BA in religion/humanities, where my main focus was on the intersection between theology and current ideas of ecology in the Western world. I also hold an AA from Gulf Coast State College in religion/psychology. Currently, I write for the Catholic blog Epic Pew, maintain my own blog here at Blogger, and am working on my own writing projects, namely a dystopian Southern Gothic novel set in the Florida Panhandle and essays on living with mental illness. Within the next year or two, I hope to start up my own writing and editing consulting business, as well as a tutoring service to help high school and college students develop their writing skills.

Many people ask me why in the world I chose religion as my focus in school, and how in the world it connects to creative writing and editing. The better question is "why didn't I?" and "how doesn't it?" Religion is perhaps one of the most interdisciplinary studies one can engage in. It intersects with almost everything humans have accomplished throughout history: literature, politics, psychology, science, even history itself. My religious studies have taken me everywhere from analyzing the unique poetry of the Franciscans to observing the clashes between evolutionary science and Christian fundamentalism to interpreting psychological and social influences upon medieval women mystics. Religion programs are also (in)famously writing intensive, and the one in which I studied was particularly focused upon students editing, critiquing, and refining each others' work. My education has primed me like nothing else to meditate upon and document the world around me, and to meet people where they are to help them tell their stories.

I'm here to tell my truth, and help others tell theirs in turn.