About My Writing Project
"The Unseen World"
From a remote fishing village at the top of Denmark in the 1870s to the museums, salons, and cafés of Copenhagen, Vienna, and Paris at the turn of the century, The Unseen World follows real-life artist Anna Ancher — who would defy social conventions to become a pioneer of light and color in the Danish Modern Breakthrough.
Anna's life looks idyllic: a celebrated debut at twenty before women were admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Art, marriage to a prominent artist, critical and commercial success, queen of the legendary Skagen painters. But she's slowly disappearing.
Beneath the surface she navigates the pull between being an artist and an artist's wife, a love triangle with her husband's biggest rival, the impossible tension between nurturing her daughter and her art. She has always walked the edges, never fully belonging — and this, it turns out, is her secret weapon.
Anna Ancher would not forsake herself. The Unseen World is the story of how she claimed her sovereignty.
"Sudden Exit"
My second book is a work of creative nonfiction — Sudden Exit — on navigating the liminal spaces of endings, transitions, and new beginnings. The passages that transform us. The thresholds that, when we cross them, change everything about who we become.
This one comes from the inside.
On the Craft
I came to creative writing after decades of scholarly and professional writing — and discovered it asks entirely different things of me. More patience. More surrender. More willingness to not know. I'm learning in community, with mentors, coaches, and fellow writers who are generous with their honesty. I'm humbled by how much there is to learn and energized by exactly that.