About My Writing Projects
"The Unseen World"
Real-life 19th-century Danish painter Anna Ancher is pregnant, posing for her husband who titles the portrait Artist's Wife She believes she's built a life of freedom, partnership, and creativity. Suddenly she realizes she's disappeared into her own life. This is the story of how Anna paints her way back.
From a remote fishing village at
Real-life 19th-century Danish painter Anna Ancher is pregnant, posing for her husband who titles the portrait Artist's Wife She believes she's built a life of freedom, partnership, and creativity. Suddenly she realizes she's disappeared into her own life. This is the story of how Anna paints her way back.
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 Anna as she navigates the pull between being an artist and an artist's wife, a love triangle with her husband's biggest rival, and the impossible tension between nurturing her daughter and her art. She's always walked the edges, never fully belonging — and this, it turns out, is her secret weapon.
"Sudden Exit"
My second book will be 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.
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What I'm Learning
What I'm Learning
I came to creative writing after decades of scholarly and professional writing — and discovered it asks entirely different things of me. More discipline. More vulnerability.. More willingness to not know. I'm learning in community, with mentors, coaches, editors, and fellow writers. I'm humbled and energized by how much there is to learn.
I came to creative writing after decades of scholarly and professional writing — and discovered it asks entirely different things of me. More discipline. More vulnerability.. More willingness to not know. I'm learning in community, with mentors, coaches, editors, and fellow writers. I'm humbled and energized by how much there is to learn. I'm grateful that I get to do this. I'm happy to invest years of effort, energy, exploring, and experimenting into this devotion.It's the journey, not the destination, that matters most to me.