Publications
“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.”
Françoise Sagan
If there’s a story inside you, it has to come out. Over the years, I have discovered that writing can complement so many aspects of life. Furthermore, my belief is that the tools of storytelling belong to both fiction and nonfiction. Everything that can be observed has a story that can be spelled out in a compelling narrative, and I hope to cultivate better writing with each day. I hope to mix the humanities aspect of my interests with the numerical to discover new and exciting ways of interpreting the world. I will start dialogues about fascinating ideas that bring people together, finding stories everywhere I go, discovering novel ideas at the bleeding edge, confronting censorship, and listening to new perspectives.
Baba Yaga
In this modern, grimly twisted take on a fairytale from Slavic folklore, the world of Baba Yaga brims with the supernatural as a team of local investigators attempts to make sense of physical impossibilities, extravagant hallucinations, and the historical enigma of the Voynich manuscript. But once the mystery begins to reveal itself, the townspeople realize that they’ve disturbed a force deep in the forest that is so insidious and so frightening that its threat lingers beyond the final page.
An Invincible Summer
By the end of this literary novel, An Invincible Summer illustrates the complications of a rapidly growing industrialized capitalist country in the 21st century as the narrator struggles to reconcile the potential hard hours of a dead-end job versus trying to maintain romance. Amid struggles with excessive drinking and familial alienation, this character’s widespread relatability reveals the conditions of the modern individual, as well as the depths, and how one balances the light and the dark—now and for the future.
Photography
“Beauty will save the world.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A police investigator and an axe murder both find key lime pie to be delicious. A Yankees fan and a Red Sox fan both enjoy the rays of summertime sun and the smell of fresh spring grass. There’s something transcendent about the aesthetic properties of the objects and concepts around us, so I make an effort to find that each day.
