Novels
RED LOTUS PIRATE (Adult, Fantasy) - unpublished
BRIDGES OF MAGPIES (Adult, Romantic Fantasy) - unpublished
Selected for the 2024 SmoochPit Mentorship Program
Short fiction
“White Crane and Red Fox” (3300 words)
Heartlines Spec (March 2025)
A descendant of the White Crane and Red Fox clans struggles with a sense of belonging. (Fantasy)
“The first woman of the Qingyan Sect” (3900 words)
All Worlds Wayfarer: Into the Dark anthology (forthcoming Q3/Q4 2025)
(Wuxia dark fantasy)
“Event Horizon” (3900 words)
Apocalypse Confidential, October 2024
A doctor specializing in last image corneal implants struggles with his work on eternal consciousness and the loss of love. (Sci-fi/speculative)
“The Mid-Autumn Festival” (3800 words)
Luna Station Quarterly, September 2024
A recalcitrant sun goddess descends to the mortal realm to experience the Mid-Autumn Festival, and finds more than she expected. (Fantasy/xianxia)
Review: SFF Reviews Oct 2024
“Fancy a Chinese?” (1500 words)
DarkWinter Lit Magazine, May 2024
Shortlisted for 2nd Anniversary Fiction Contest
A young woman struggles with her mixed race identity in a world that has homogenized food and is slowly erasing ethnic food culture. (Speculative)
Select non-fiction
Make me a sandwich: Misogyny and the online content creator (book)
WIP
“Getting Started on Twitch”
Cosplay Double Double Magazine
December 2020
“Everybody hates Light Turner: Why Netflix’s “Death Note” isn’t as bad as you think”
AIPT Comics
September 2017
“Two sorts of people: a defence of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”
The Pulp Press
May 2016
“Storyworlds and narrative in video games”
The Pulp Press
February 2015
“Try an ancient martial art for fitness”
Edmonton Journal
January 2014
“The Island Utopia and the Chronotope: Temporal Distortion in Utopian Fiction of the Renaissance”
Bristol Journal of English Studies
Issue 1 (Summer 2012)
Other activities
Former Editor-in-Chief of The Pulp Press (archived on Wordpress) 2017
Art by Hisurii
BRIDGES OF MAGPIES
Adult, Romantic Fantasy
Selected for the 2024 SmoochPit Mentorship Program
In a feminist reimagining of a Chinese folktale, rebellious Shizhi runs away with the farmer she’s forbidden to marry, but when a jealous Celestial Empress forces her to relive a past life that spans three realms, Shizhi must confront madness, tragedy, and hell itself to reclaim her freedom and save the man she loves.
Feminist reimagining of the Chinese folktale, “The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl”
Forbidden love
Celestial immortals/three realms
Controlling parents and the quest for female agency
Bleeding for love
Travel to Diyu (the underworld)
RED LOTUS PIRATE
Adult, Fantasy
Lianhua is cursed--an outsider in the realm of pirates, destined to be a slave. In order to save her people, she must take down those in power, but fate, in the form of a celestial dragon, has other plans. When she falls for a mysterious white-haired stranger, they uncover a web of secrets that could destroy the realm, put her friends in danger, and break her heart.
Inspired by the historical life of pirate Zheng Yi Sao
Wuxia/xianxia vibes
Immortal pirate queens
Sea-based action/adventure
Chinese mythology
Slow-burn romantic subplot
BloomsWIP
Adult, Romantic Fantasy
Coming soon!