Bio

Her work starts in the archive, not the outline. Newspaper research comes first: county weeklies, Prohibition-era notices, obituaries, land transfers, and the small items that tell you who lived on which block and when.

Local histories and genealogy give those sources a human spine — town compilations, cemetery surveys, family trees on Genealogy.com, kin tied to places like the Swarts House on Cement's east edge.

That method shaped Cement Stories: The Bootlegger — literary fiction grounded in dry-era Oklahoma, built from research she could stand behind.