I first started writing at age eight but I stopped after high school and didn’t write creatively until the first lockdown in 2020. I needed to find a place of hope and realized I would need to formulate a place of hope through creative writing.

Fugitive Rifts is about four very different teens who meet in their last year of school: an elite basketball player, a privileged underachiever, a brainiac geek who just recently became re-housed, and a brilliant, brooding artist. Initially a few sparks fly but overtime as they get to know each other they find they have more in common than they’d originally. thought. They each face challenges that are life-changing. Then one disappears leaving the others shattered. This is a coming of age story and also much more than this. Fugitive Rifts explores social and environmental issues of our times and the ways the four characters, over a number of years, change not only other peoples’ lives, but also transform their community and even the world.