about me.

Born and raised in the mist-covered Atlantic Canadian city of Saint John, New Brunswick, I grew up with a head full of romantic dreams and my nose perpetually stuck in a book. Then, when the ending of the 2004 The Phantom of the Opera movie broke my thirteen-year-old heart, I picked up a pen and decided to change it.

I’ve been writing love stories ever since.

I started with fanfiction and was forged in the fires of the late 2000s LiveJournal and FanFiction.Net days before moving to Tumblr and Archive of Our Own in the early 2010s. These were, in my humble opinion, the golden years of fandom culture. I’ve shipped everything from Erik/Christine to John Lennon/Paul McCartney, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson to Jim Kirk/Spock. I’ve even written for a few of those ships, too. 

Those early experiences helped me develop my creative voice and, soon, the desire to write my own stories and populate them with my own characters inspired a shift toward original fiction. All the while, my focus remained on romance – settings and characters have varied, but every single thing I’ve ever penned has been a love story.

The idea for A BIT BACKWARDS, the friends-to-lovers contemporary romance for which I am currently seeking representation, came to me in my first year of university. I began writing fragments of it throughout undergrad, the plot only taking shape during grad school. I worked on the story, on and off, for nearly eight years, carving out slivers of time to write whenever and wherever I could – at work and at home, on lunch hours and on vacation, in cafés and in airports. At last, in 2022, I finished the manuscript at a week-long writing retreat at the dreamlike Kingsbrae International Residence for the Arts in St. Andrews, New Brunswick.

These days, when I’m not querying, you can find me toggling between two projects that have the potential to become my second novel (check out my mood boards for them on Pinterest); watching and reviewing movies on Letterboxd; creating highly specific playlists on Spotify; learning to tap dance; and co-parenting a handsome yet headstrong Pembroke Welsh Corgi by the name of Lord Byron with my husband.

  • Self-explanatory. ✨

  • Meet Lord Byron the Corgi! 🐶

  • The happiest day of my life. ❤️

a few of my favourites.

  • Dark and light academia
    Friends to lovers
    Enemies to lovers
    Slow burn
    Mutual pining
    Angst
    Happy endings
    Grumpy-sunshine pairings
    Gothic influences
    Forbidden romance

  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
    This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
    People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
    Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
    Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
    Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
    Babel by R. F. Kuang
    The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
    Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
    The Brown Sisters Trilogy by Talia Hibbert
    The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
    Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
    If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
    Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

  • Titanic
    Pride & Prejudice     (2005)
    The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Parasite
    Singin’ in the Rain
    When Harry Met Sally
    Past Lives
    Dead Poets Society
    Dirty Dancing
    Brokeback Mountain
    Barbie
    Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    La La Land

  • Fleabag
    Succession
    Parks and Rec
    The Good Place
    Schitt’s Creek
    Heartstopper
    Star Trek (The Original Series)
    Sherlock (Seasons 1-3)
    Frasier
    Drunk History
    Doctor Who

  • The Beatles
    Sara Bareilles
    Beyoncé
    Adele
    Taylor Swift
    Olivia Rodrigo
    Lizzy McAlpine
    Kacey Musgraves
    Lady Gaga
    Josh Groban
    Anything Broadway

a few random facts.

I unironically believe in horoscopes (I am a total Pisces).

My husband and I learned the Dirty Dancing routine for our wedding (see proof!).

I have the ability to listen to a song on repeat for an entire day.

I am a staunch tea drinker and love the Yorkshire Tea Malty Biscuit Brew or David’s Tea Cream of Earl Grey.

My Theatre Kid™️ energy manifests itself most often through emoting too hard when singing in the car.