My debut album, "The Bountiful Dream," will be released September 5, 2026, on streaming platforms. Lyrics from this album are based on poems in The Alchemy of Grace. Listen to the album here.

My new book of poetry, The Alchemy of Grace: Devotional Sonnets after Vittoria Colonna, is available now as an ebook and pocket paperback. Songs based on several of the poems in this collection can be found on The Bountiful Dream album.

I'd been writing poetry for twenty years. Then in October 2024, I went on a healing journey from Alaska to Florida by car, a ten-day journey that led me through the arctic wilderness, through the vast interior of the Yukon and the endless expanse of central Canada to a place I didn't really expect to find myself—the parish of Lakota medicine man Nicholas Black Elk, located on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

I walked through the front doors of Holy Rosary Catholic Church and was stopped in my tracks by a sign on the wall with these words from Black Elk: Your vision is not complete until you perform it. I don't know why, but I turned right around, walked back out of that church and drove away as fast as my car could carry me. I didn't stay for Mass as I had intended to, and I spoke to no one.

What happened after that, after the drive to Florida and the months on a sailboat listening to mgk & Juice WRLD & Chika & Tate McRae and the drive west through the desert to a remote camping spot outside of L.A. where I heard Lil Peep's mixtape Live Forever for the first time under a blue moon in a dark blue sky shining on an illuminated blue sand, after driving north through British Columbia on the edge of winter to find myself unexpectedly back in the place I began with music suddenly beginning to take shape in me—after this, and so much more, I find myself here now, with an album of songs. I'm still as afraid as the day I ran away from Black Elk's parish and the sign on the wall calling me to music. But I won't let that stop me.

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