In addition to being a visual artist, I am also a writer. Samples of my short and long form work are below, featuring excerpts from my completed novel Room 18 (open to representation), as well as my in-progress novel, Portraits of Strangers.
I am currently writing a prequel to my first novel, Room 18, called Portraits of Strangers. The novel focuses on the life of Theo and Kal, two of the secondary characters from the first novel. Portraits of Strangers is set five years earlier in 2003, when the unlikely pair connects during their last few weeks of graduate school at the Florence Academy of Art. The book is dual perspective, switching between Theo and Kal. I set the drinks down on the table in front of everyone,
I've included a few excerpts from my completed novel, Room 18, below. It is the fall of 2008, and Shay Thatcher is just getting settled into her new life in London. After the loss of both her mother and her job in Washington D.C. during the recession, she lands what she believes is her dream job - working as an associate curator at the British Museum. But, when she (literally) runs into a mysterious sketch artist drawing from the Parthenon Marble sculptures, her quiet, albeit
