Some characters are born knowing their worth. I am more interested in the ones who are not.
After thirty years in the tech industry, I have seen firsthand how systems sort people, assign them value, and expect them to stay where they are put. That observation became the engine of my fiction. I write women who begin underestimated, who stumble and misjudge and push forward anyway, and whose worth becomes undeniable not because the world finally sees them clearly but because they stopped waiting for permission to be more.
I believe people are complicated by nature, that mistakes are part of the shape of a person, and that who you are at the end of the story is the only version that truly counts.
I am a wife, mother and grandmother. My partner and I live in South Carolina with our two dogs and love filling the house with family and spending time outside.
