My love of fiction developed early and has never stopped growing and evolving. The list of authors who have influenced me is long and diverse. William Trevor, George Saunders, Ken Kesey, Mark Twain, Vladimir Nabokov, T.C. Boyle, Joyce Carol Oates, Cormac McCarthy, Alice Munro, Philip Roth, Joseph Heller, Thomas Mcguane. James Joyce, Woody Allen, and Raymond Carver are among my favorites.

Ways of Leaving won the "Best New Fiction category of the 2014 International Book Awards.