As an educator, writer, and illustrator, I am fascinated with the way things interconnect, interact, and fall apart. I am intrigued by the vast machinery that writhes beneath the surface of our perception, the deep clockworks that push against the membrane of our understanding, causing the external forms of what we accept as familiar. I am impelled to delve beyond what is immediately apparent, to thoughtfully seek out the subversion of my own expectations, and then to grasp at the inner workings of existence.

I find an almost ritualistic satisfaction in arranging the intellectual artifacts excavated in such explorations, in realizing patterns among the cognitive curiosities that have caught my eye, the fragments of existential debris I have impulsively picked up, pocketed, and worried between my fingers. I fit together what I can, constructing frameworks and armatures, and over these structures I stitch whatever form of creative expression fits best.

I write. I draw. I capture imagery. I shape metal.

Professionally, I spent two decades teaching outdoor education and experiential learning in the forests of the Blue Ridge Mountains. During that time I led and developed immersive programs in science, history, team building, and high adventure. Working with young people, family groups, and professionals, I have guided zip line canopy tours and instructed workshops for blacksmithing, archery and axe throwing, primitive fire building, and more. 

Currently, I work in public education in a secondary middle school program, assisting students who struggled in conventional classrooms to find meaningful achievements in life and academics. 

I graduated with a BA in English, with a concentration in creative writing, from Montreat, a small liberal arts college outside of Asheville, NC.

I adore animation, cinema, and sequential narrative art. My shelves are filled with graphic novels, manga, reference books on anatomy and dinosaurs, pulp fiction, and art collections.

I use no AI in my creative process. All writing, art and photography are my own work.