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 drawn to dark mythopoetic fiction. My work explores themes of loss, grief, and loneliness, set in liminal spaces where death is always present. I'm interested in liminal places and people, 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, dark fairy tales, all of the above.
My style is influenced by Ray Bradbury, Terry Pratchett, and Bruno Schulz, with remnants of Albert Camus and Shirley Jackson. I have a degree in Religious Studies, which explains a lot.
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.