Not Just Another Roadside Attraction

With apologies to Tom Robbins, this book was based on a trip that I took through Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico in 2011. The seeds for this book were printed a couple of summers before, when I visited two sites in particular that I found particularly inspiring. One...

Migration: A Field Guide to Love that Was and Might Have Been

Migration makes use of two parallel voices that work together to compare the narrator’s romantic encounters to bird behavior. The narrator describes a series of encounters that shaped the way she views love and partnership. Each memory described is paired with a...

The Heart Wants What it Wants

This book (a collection of three volumes) was inspired by the Greek Furies. I’ve always been enamored by mythology, but something about the way they champion the lovelorn and heartbroken  stuck with me–especially their tendencies toward the devious and...