I’m a speculative author and ravenous inkdrinker with a sweet tooth for rock’n'roll witchcraft 80’s horror fantasy. I love loud music, brutal fiction, dancing like a fiend, and living life like a late-night punk rock picture show.

I was born in Philly and grew up in some fun and not-so-fun parts of South Jersey, and survived high school behind a protective wall of Clive Barker and Stephen King. I worked in one of the nation’s oldest occult shops for a while and split for Northern California at the beginning of the aughts. After spending ten years running a small-biz/underground fashion site, and taking a break to attend Clarion West in 2007, I returned to the east coast and never in my life did I think I’d end up in Queens, but here I am. I’m a member of NYC-based writing group Altered Fluid and currently in the thick of my second novel: a toxic dystopia of disease-hexes and enviro-anarchist pharmacology.

Other cherished diversions: old movies that have Barbara Stanwyck and Greta Garbo in them, lurking on metal blogs, trying to master the moves of tribal fusion bellydancing while ingrained with the habits of tri-state rivet stomping and old Madonna videos, savoring bits of late night television recovered from VHS relics, getting hauled into goth clubs for the occasional DJ stint, drinking whiskey, thrift shopping, shooting zombies, experimenting with vegetarian cuisine, death marching through Manhattan, and taking my notebook everywhere through it all.