I’ve always been star-stuck by creativity. Ever since I was young, the mainstream bored me and I never felt that comfortable embracing the latest trend or the need to follow the in-crowd. I quickly found myself drawn to pop culture’s more imaginative fringe that was bucking convention and seeking to celebrate its own voice. I sought it out through books, music and movies and then later in and through my own creative contributions to those areas. I started my first novel in high school, which was admittedly a pretentious allegory of a entire human life presented in under 200 pages. High school also saw my foray into poetry. I wrote mainly free verse and series that formed a narrative. This was first exploration of wordplay, alliteration and metaphor. I loved how far you could stretch the English language without breaking it. I deepened this exploration by becoming an English language teacher. As I shared the nuances of English with international students, I continued writing (informed by personal experiences, what I was reading and film and TV narratives). I condensed my fascination with Anglo-Irish writers in a novella entitled IT’S OBVIOUS. I fashioned a fun but sophisticated plot around characters conceived by my friends in tHe dAY oF sMALL tHINGS. Most recently, I celebrated science and technology in a police procedural entitled MOME.
