The idea for Riverborn came in a dream in June of 2014. It was a "heavy" dream that made it hard to surface. I felt like I had packed stones in my pockets, and I had sunk to the very bottom of the image-pool to retrieve this story. I lay awake for a long time with... Continue Reading →

I am extremely grateful for having two parents who did not let the norms of their society define them. My mother was born into a poor share-cropping family in southern Missouri during the early 1900s. She was the fifth of six children, but one of her brothers died at the age of two. A country... Continue Reading →