Author Statement

I am a writer from rural Alabama whose work explores family, belonging, queerness, grief, memory, and the complicated inheritance of the South. Across poetry and memoir, I write about longing, survival, silence, and what it means to love places and people that have not always known how or been able to love you back.

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My writing is rooted in the landscapes that raised me and in the stories families keep, bury, revise, and pass down. I am interested in the tension between love and harm, belonging and exile, tradition and becoming.

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Through lyric prose and poetry, I write toward truth, memory, and the self I was not always free to be. I believe language can help us reckon with the unbearable and, in doing so, help us move beyond just survival into fuller, more authentic lives.

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