My first book was a children's novel in Romanian, because fairy tales were my first love and that never really went away. Afterwards I started writing in English and somehow ended up in darker territory.
I am a writer drawn to dark mythopoetic fiction. My work explores loss, grief, and loneliness, set in liminal spaces where death is nearby. I'm interested in myth in domestic settings, the uncanny, ritual and what happens when it fails. Women at the edges of what's acceptable. I'm not entirely sure which genre I fall into: gothic horror, weird fiction, literary fiction, dark fairy tales, all of the above.
My style is influenced by Ray Bradbury, Bruno Schulz, and Shirley Jackson.
I usually keep things gloomy. I can do funny too. Just still dark, don't worry.
I enjoy the indie book community enormously. It gives me the sense that books still matter. It makes me hopeful.