ARTIST STATEMENT

I love the age of our YA readers—that moment in our lives when we're at the edge of everything. I've written both a contemporary chick-lit YA novel about a clueless LA teen lost in a remote corner of Molokai, called Paradise Gets a Makeover, as well as a dark, YA time-travel thriller that catapults a tongue-tied anthropology student into a world of frozen forests, roving wolves, and the last of the Neandertals, called A River Through Stone.
I’m passionate about creating unique characters, a powerful voice, and beautiful, vivid prose. I want my readers immersed in my world—to feel the sunlight flick across their faces as they sprint through a pine forest, to hear the shimmy of wind through a hundred billion needles. I want them to breathe in the scent of the damp earth and the dripping ferns and the cold clean air of a world that has never known civilization.