I am a poet and writer from Charleston, South Carolina, and a graduate of the College of Charleston’s MFA program. My work has been published in a variety of outlets, including, most recently, Blue Moon Review. Additional work is forthcoming in Yearling.
Beyond the drudgery of submitting, however, I am working on two novels in tandem. These works are informed by my near-obsessive fascination with the concept of “the seaside,” both the shore and littoral zones that are so suddenly there and, in a breath, gone. These landscapes, so wholly diverse and yet always connected, have imbued folklore, tradition, and art forms across not only my native South Carolina Sea Islands, but in the landscape of my ancestors who once crafted home out of the intensity of Scotland’s Moray Firth.
This blog, much like the skeleton of my novels, is nothing more than rumination. Rumination on art, on inspiration, on our failing ecosystems, on dying traditions. Topics may broach the bleak, but even so, I hope this blog offers some semblance of a calm shore in a boisterous ocean of algorithm, fear, and disconnect. But not a doldrum, never a doldrum.
“Earth is a waterwheel, the buckets go up and go down,
But to keep the whole aqueous architecture standing its ground
We must make a ring with our bodies and dance out a round
On the dreamt eye of water, the dreamt eye of water, the dreamt eye of water.”-“Fountains in the sea” by Marin Sorescu, trans. Seamus Heaney
