My essay “My Mother Was Margaret White” is on the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards® Preliminary Ballot.

Thank you to editor Becky Spratford for including my essay in your collection, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction and thank you to Saga for publishing this book.

To victims of child abuse, and those who have experienced abuse in adulthood as well, there’s this quiet understanding we share; we just want to live our lives and we just want to be happy. I hope that for me and for you.

Thank you