S  A  T  O  R  I
a n  a r t i s t   s p a c e  
314-503-8441      
815 Almar Avenue, Unit 9,
 Santa Cruz, CA 95060
satoriartssc@gmail.com
   

In my work, I hope to to examine and untangle the complexities that govern our lives, the push/pull that traps us and that also can set us free.

 

Though I’ve had many jobs to support my writing work, writing has been a constant most of my life, beginning with plays for puppet shows and stories for school literary magazines.

 

I’ve worked as a journalist which cemented my love of character. Why do people do certain things? What keeps them from doing others? How do they find contentment amid messy lives? I am drawn to indomitable spirits.

 

My first novel The Glimpse focused on a rising star of a major art movement who sabotages her career when she chooses to have a child and how she struggles to reclaim her place.

 

My new novel Raised in Captivity is about a young boy who finds a unique voice to help him survive and ultimately escape a life of entrapment in Christian fundamentalism.

 

Agonizing love stories abound, how we relate to difficult people, often family, when we have no choice. Ultimately, I want to explore how people hold onto their dignity in seemingly impossible situations, sometimes with
humor, other times with great poignancy.

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