I'm obsessed with narrative structure and all kinds of fiction, but I have a special love for the speculative. Over at DarlingAxe.com, I'm a senior editor and the co-author of Immersion & Emotion: The Two Pillars of Storytelling. When I'm not writing or editing, I'm probably running through the forest with my dog.​ I started my undergraduate degree at the University of Victoria in both creative and professional writing. However, after the first year I decided I needed more life experience before I could begin writing fiction in earnest. Ten years later, I finally started my first full-length work, and soon I had three (unpublishable) manuscripts, which taught me that I still had much to learn. In 2010, I left my job at the University of Victoria Libraries to travel and work on my writing portfolio as part of my application to the UBC Creative Writing MFA. I hitchhiked from Vancouver to Montreal, housesat in Bocas del Toro, Panama, and crewed on sailboats from Panama to Samoa. Three years later, my application was accepted, and I completed the program in 2016. Along the way, I've written a number of manuscripts. Two were represented by an agent, and though we got close with a few publishers, there were ultimately no bites. We (amicably) parted ways in 2022 and, since then, I've been immersed in another round of deep revision. The road to publication, as I've learned, can be a long one!​​​