Books + Writing
Fiction
THE EVOLUTION OF YOU AND ME, Finalist, Undiscovered Voices 2016.
50 FIRST DATES meets THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE when childhood sweethearts Pree and Kenner are pulled into a series of alternate dimensions as strangers, each one more dangerous than the last. In THE EVOLUTION OF YOU AND ME, the seventeen-year-olds must rediscover their love for each other before the final portal they get sucked into closes for good, separating them from their planet and each other forever.
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TRACKED, Honorable Mention, Undiscovered Voices 2014
In young adult sci-fi thriller THE FADES, seventeen-year-old Merilee must choose between two identities and two boys from two very different worlds, if she is not caught by The Alliance of Global Security for leading a double life. Longlisted for Undiscovered Voices 2014 under the title TRACKED, the book received an honorable mention. Thank you to SCBWI BI and Working Partners for their dedication to sharing fresh new work and for helping unagented and unpublished writers get noticed.
Short Fiction
The Gift of Listening, Esoterica Mag, October 2021
The Mercy Troupers, Escape Into Life, June 2010
Bylines
- Social Media and Women’s Empowerment, Tert.am, March 13, 2010
- Social Media and Women’s Empowerment, Hürriyet Daily News, March 12, 2010
- International Local Living and The Weekly Dish Istanbul events column, Hürriyet Daily News, May 2009-May 2010
- Mapping the Imagination, expat+HAREM 12/19/2009
- Hybrid Domesticities, expat+HAREM 11/4/2009
- No Delays, but Prepare for Breakdown, Hürriyet Daily News,8/29/2009
- Got a Light? Hürriyet Daily News, 7/25/2009
- The Year of Guilty Coffee, Hürriyet Daily News, 6/15/2009
Guest Posting
- Pass the baklava, it’s time for tea, Writing Up an Appetite, Februrary 20, 2012
- Creative Chaos: Thriving as a Mother-Writer, Story of Mum, September 28, 2011
- The Spaces in Between: Creative Fodder in Daily Life, The Bird Sisters, August 11, 2010
- Mapping the Imagination at expat+HAREM
- Hybrid Domesticities at expat+HAREM