Shrines to Humankind: A Lifetime of Devotion to the Species (2025)
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Only the Harlot Shall Live (2024)
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Strange Sea (2024)
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Hyperborea: Journey to Erebus (2021)
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Hyperborea: Migrations (2021)
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Asterion: A Tale of the Monster of Crete (2020)
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Haven of Dust (2019)
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Harlots of Jericho (2018)
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THE BOOKS
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Hyperborea, a frozen planet beside a dying star, holds the last forgotten remnant of humanity.
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"We have to find what else exists in our world, because we were not born to live like animals, to sit on a dung-heap and slowly starve to death. We were born to search for knowledge, we were born to seek our worth. Maybe we will die trying to get to the Mountain, but at least we will die doing something."
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The first of a two-part series, concluded by "Journey to Erebus."
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(Available on Amazon)
In a city doomed to destruction by divine power, what will one woman do to save her daughter's life?
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"I was only a poor, wretched harlot of the lowest class and had done no distinguished deed in all my life, save give birth to a miracle of a girl and love her with every fiber of my being. But it was enough."
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(Available in Amazon)
Haven of Dust tells the story of a future civil war, and one woman's year-long epic journey across a continent ravaged by hatred and division.
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"I've been a rape victim, a torture victim, a car-crash victim, a prostitute, an arsonist, a thief, a murderer, a cannibal, a slave--I've done it all, felt it all, endured it all, from Illinois to here, just trying to see my son."
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(Available on Amazon)
Beneath the sumptuous palace of the Queen of Crete lives a monster. A monster who can dream and think, and even tell a few stories.
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"For I do not dwell only here, in this dripping, reeking pit. In reality I am everywhere, in the rolling tide and champion soil and jelly-pink wash of the dawn. I am here and small but enormous, my tendrils piercing every time and place. You cannot ignore me or forget me, enclose me or extinguish me, for I will always burst through and stretch my limbs, flare to life and bob to the top, triumphant in billows of scum... and make you believe it."
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(Available on Amazon)
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Hyperborea: Journey to Erebus is the second installment in the Hyperborea series. Nora must lead an expedition to the volcano Erebus to save her people from famine.
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"Our people came to Hyperborea from the sky, a long time ago. The Guide won't teach you that, but I will. The Kohl knew they would come back one day, so he wanted them to see where we lived from high above. The Circle is a sign, to bring the Earth people back so they can take us far away, to our home in the stars."
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(Available on Amazon)
All is well for passengers and crew aboard a cruise ship on an idyllic Caribbean voyage, until a bizarre electrical storm throws their world into confusion. A massive system failure destroys every digital function on board, leaving them adrift in a murky, featureless sea where nothing makes sense. While the ship wanders aimlessly, her supplies dwindling, the passengers descend into a grim fight for survival that forces them to reassess not only their basic values, but the very notion of existence.
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(Available on Amazon)
This theatrical counterpart to Harlots of Jericho retells the story of the fall of Jericho and the enigmatic figure of Rahab in the form of a "humanistic tragedy."
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"You have lived your life among us, you
know who we are. Do we not live and love,
flourish and fade, rise and sing and mourn, like every other creature that opens its eyes, astounded at the fervor of the dawn? Do we not deserve as much life as you?"
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(Available on Amazon)
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"In the fall of 2022, I set a headstone on my brother's grave. He had been lying there unmarked for fifty years."
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In this memoir, musings on the burial practices of a California family of artists and eccentrics lead to an exploration of what it means to be a humanist in 21st century America. As the last surviving member of that family, the author provides an origin story that combines poetic reflections and memories with a polemic against the unholy alliance of political extremism and Christian fundamentalism that marks our present age.
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(Available on Amazon)
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