current literary projects

Novel: Fancy Gap

Fancy Gap, is a novel about a family separated by illness and addiction in southern Appalachia. Religion, sexuality, amnesia and the region’s sociocultural failings propel two brothers and an estranged, self-radicalized, born-again grandmother into a cause de crise for the mountainous border region of western North Carolina and Virginia.

Forthcoming via Hamish Hamilton (Penguin Canada), February 3rd, 2026

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Novel: A Kind of Tempered Glory

A young man leaves his deteriorating home life, the escalating racial tensions, and Vietnam War draft he faces in South Carolina, joined by a new friend, Conteh who is fleeing the same. The two hide out with Conteh’s family in rural Louisiana. When the authorities catch up to the two, they plan to flee to Montreal.

Once he’s safe from prosecution and north of the border, the protagonist falls into a turbulent love affair with Nadège, a francophone émigré from Haiti. As their pasts catch up to them, their lives and love grow tense, precarious, and bittersweet with their future in the balance.

*** Supported by Canada Council for the Arts

Forthcoming via Penguin Canada, 2028