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debut novel

While god is sending her signs through Instagram and Spotify demanding she break up with her girlfriend, Norma meets with a new therapist for one reason: she really needs to write again...

Suffering from Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder and stuck in her own experimental narrative, Norma challenges all we've been taught about the distance between fiction and reality, sanity and insanity, mental illness and healing. 

vintage books

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Kirkus Reviews

"Acerbic, tenderhearted and clever...

A well-crafted spiral of a story with hope at its center."

Chloe Caldwell

Author of 'Women'

"The most delightfully unhinged and chaotic novel I’ve read in years and I am here for every page, and more."

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other publications

Intertwined in Madness: On Turning Yourself into a Character in a Novel

Lit Hub | Summer 2024

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9 Experimental Books That Break Narrative Norms

Electric Literature | Summer 2024

 

A letter to the impossible things which require tending to

Epiphany Magazine | Summer 2022

 

Places we called by other names

Tiger Moth Review | 2022

 

That which is sacred

The Giving Room Review | 2021

 

Consummation

Pank Magazine | 2020

 

American Love

Eleven and a half Magazine | 2020

 

Why I Write

1888.center. November | 2018

Desk Lamp

jaanem (my love)

ocean gray

Feature Length | drama

lgbtq+ grief, family, tolerance

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Top 15% Academy Nicholls Fellowship. ‘22

Best Story Award. Imagine This Women’s Film Festival. ‘22

Quarter-Finalist. Vancouver International Women in Film

Festival Screenplay Competition. ‘22

Feature Length | sci-fi

LGBTQ+ Romance

 

Romance Award Winner. WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. ‘21

Best Story Award. Buddha International Film Festival ‘20.

Gold Award Winner. WRPN.tv Screenplay Competition. ‘21

Third Place. Garden State Film Festival. ‘21

Official Selection. Beverly Hills Film Festival. ‘21

Official Selection. New York Movie Awards. ‘20

Finalist. Your Script Produced Screenplay Competition. ‘21

Nominee. Love Wins Film Festival. ‘20

Quarter Finalist. NYC Screenplay Awards. ‘21

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All photos by Anna Duncan

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