Published fiction and essays — from a reimagined Russian fairy tale to Tolkien scholarship written for fantasy and fan communities.
My creative fiction publications.
A widowed mother prepares her son to seek the Lord's deliverance.
Mormon Lit Blitz →What if the Jaredites decided to send all the youngest children together in one barge for their year long voyage? What if you were the designated guardian for the journey?
Mormon Lit Blitz → View on Amazon →A sequel to the Russian folktale of Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf, published alongside ten other authors in this fairy-tale anthology.
View on Amazon →Not really fiction, but an exploration of one of my favorite works, this essay on succession and legitimacy in Tolkien's Middle-earth was presented at Into the West's Fantasy Festival in 2008 and accepted for BYU's LTUE (Life, the Universe, & Everything) Symposium in 2006.
Conference essay · not available online